Since When Do Liberals Embrace Truthiness?

Trust me, after “dishing it out” on a blog with an open comments section for over a decade I am more than capable of “taking it.” And I’ll be absentee-voting a straight Democratic ticket from the grave. (Finally some voter fraud from Dems the right has been fantasizing about!) But I have to say the feedback I’ve received from peers (and seen directed at others) to a number of viral news stories in recent years where I haven’t stuck to the party’s talking points does shed a fluorescent light on how the dreaded “both sides” and independent voter is born. I’m smart enough to know that unless you’re registered as an independent (for your rebel-at-heart ego) but still vote 100% Democratic, it is a too-clever-by-half recipe for 2016 happening all over again. But kindly keep it in mind that not everybody knows that -- and we need all the help we can get.

Nice to see I'm not the only one who reacted the way I did to the weekend's feeding frenzy, where I had people snap at me that it didn't matter whether the kids did in fact chant "Build the wall" (there are hours of footage including every epithet hurled at them yet nowhere do we hear that); who approached whom; or that they actually hadn't "crashed" a Native American rally (as widely reported), the only thing that mattered was "the vibe" they got off the kids. (Read Julie Irwin Zimmerman's motherly take HERE.)

To a friend who told me she hadn't even watched the video who said this:

No matter what other storyline emerges, it doesn't change the fact that the teenager is wearing a MAGA hat in support of the worst president our democracy has ever seen, while attending a march in support of forced pregnancy and the diminished status of women's rights.

I reluctantly but felt necessarily replied this:

You’re so right. But as much as I hate going there, we do have to acknowledge that they can’t help being born in Kentucky, with families that put them in a parochial school that took them to that disgusting march. (For all we know the school provided the hats.) We’re all disgusted by MAGA and what it stands for, but many of us do not think their actual behavior warrants this reaction.

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