The point is that Trump has said many questionable things, but Clinton has done numerous things that are immoral, narcissistic, selfish, ignorant, and even dangerous. Yet there is hardly any stigma, labeling, or seething condemnations on social media that those who vote for her will be stained with her lying image from now to judgment day. There are no cries from the political Left that she is destroying the Democratic Party with her immorality, incompetency, profound character flaws, and embrace of a Marxist agenda that deviates from the party’s historical commitment to individual liberty.
There is certainly no widespread fear that her voters are mindless sheep, Hillaryites, Hillions, or whatever name you want to call her band of merry followers who want to join her in further transforming America. But with Trump we have an army of “Trumpkins” ushering in Armageddon.
That’s because Trump is immoral and unstable, his opponents say. Even worse, he’s a sexist, and a man who votes for him hates women too. This is pure propaganda. Say what you want about Trump, but demonizing voters like this is its own kind of evil. It’s the systematic use of effective social psychological methodology designed to label a group in order to delegitimize them. It reminds me of the quote attributed to Soren Kierkegaard: “Once you label me, you negate me.”
You have been negated and reduced to a word—sexist, racist, or homophobe.
In our society, the Left has effectively shifted our culture’s values away from traditional morals to a specified group of behaviors they deem intolerable above any other.
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