I'm Giving in to Political Burnout

[_Jersey Girl]

And Rosa Parks Day in at least 2 states.

[Guest]

, naw it is not worth saying

[_Some Schmo]

Giving that douche bag a medal shows what a farce the whole thing was.

damned pill head.

[_huckelberry]

a correction

nothing

[_EAllusion]

It's Rush's fomenting of hatred and profound, irrational distrust while being a major influence in creating an entire ecosystem of false narratives about how the world is used to manipulate a politically powerful segment of the country that is the deeper problem. There are an endless ream of terrible things he's said that you can quote, but a collection of those lines doesn't really capture how damaging conservative AM talk radio that he mainstreamed is to our society. The constant deception, encouragement of bad attitudes and behavior, and inflaming of negative partisanship - all in the package of gut-bucket infotainment - is just poison in people's ears.

If you look at where things went off the rails, "Rush Limbaugh gets popular" is one of the better lines in the sand you can point to.

[_huckelberry]

I think EAllusions analysis of the baleful influence of the man is better than the expression of hostility I started and decided to empty.

[_honorentheos]

I don't watch his idiotic rallies either.

Good point. From the little I've seen in clips the lack of MAGA hats and Trump speaking from a script seems to be the only differences.

[_ajax18]

Rush Limbaugh is genuinely one of the monsters of American history and his death should be celebrated in so far as you are the type to be happy about the deaths of evil people. His influence on American society has been substantial and profoundly toxic. Aside from Rupert Murdoch and a couple of other people, he's been one of the worst human beings alive in terms of reach of harm over the past couple of generations.

If you look at how the Medal of Freedom has been historically handled, it's generally responsible. It's mostly a list of people who you'd expect to be deserving from the vantage point of the time they were awarded or political rewards that fall within the bounds of plausible recognition, if a bit sketchy. There are some eyebrow raising ones on the list, but it seems occasional rather than a pattern.

Trump's awards have been off the rails nonsense, with Limbaugh being a cherry on top. It really stands out.

I don't see much libertarian in this view. Would you believe Limbaugh did more damage to the US or Stonewall Jackson?

But this post further clarifies for me that left and right are way to far apart to be part of the same country.

[_EAllusion]

I don't see much libertarian in this view.

Hang out with more libertarians?

Would you believe Limbaugh did more damage to the US or Stonewall Jackson?

Eh. History isn’t done being written on the former’s influence yet, so I’m going to go with the traitor on this one. It tougher than you think, because while Jackson was a military leader in a movement to betray the country in defense of human bondage - and was effective enough in that role to drive up the ultimate death and destruction caused by it - he’s not really responsible for the underlying movement he advanced. Limbaugh, on the other hand, has a legitimate argument as the most important pioneer in his field and its attendant noxious influence and it’s hard to know what it would be without him.

[_ajax18]

Limbaugh, on the other hand, has a legitimate argument as the most important pioneer in his field and its attendant noxious influence and it’s hard to know what it would be without him.

And of course Rush is a racist and a Nazi in your opinion?