It may be neither party that has radicalized arguments but the American public itself, but on the Left. Republicans have mostly been between if it ain’t broke don’t fix it to fixing what the Left introduces.
The problem with political correctness in America is that it takes no prisoners. People not on board with Obama or the Martin Luther King holiday are racists; people not on board with gay marriage hate gays and are bigots. If you’re against affirmative action or illegal immigration you’re back to racist and all of AZ is racist apparently.
Framing arguments in such a way doesn’t leave any room for maneuver: it’s either shut up and join in out of sheepishness of take it on the chin – valid disagreement is not an option.
Making this even more galling is the conspicuous racial advocacy of the Left, especially among black Americans. Today at The Root, which is owned by the Washington Post and edited by Henry (beer summit) Gates, an article is titled “Black Professionals: We Got Obama’s Back.” If such an article had appeared in The National Review in 2008 titled “White Professionals: We Got John McCain’s Back” and white folks voted for McCain to the tune of 96% as did black folks for Obama, there would’ve been outrage on the Left and the Right fitted for KKK hoods.
The fact that black Americans can so smugly and openly engage in lite hate speech while denying far lesser events to their prospective opposition such as “food stamp President” or “blah” as “blatant racism” just adds to the frustration of the lack of any kind of fair play being applied to today’s political discourse. In fairness to Republicans, though they don’t represent me, they at least don’t engage in prominent doublethink or demonization that invites comparisons to retarded people.
