'Can We Stop Being Such Jerks?': Ex-Clinton Staffer's Warning to Fellow Liberals
Former Clinton staffer Annafi Wahed joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss her recent op-ed in which she argues that her fellow liberals have become "arrogant" in political discourse.
Wahed wrote in the Wall Street Journal that liberals must "stop the ideological purity tests and admit there are more ways than one of solving a problem."
"Can we stop being such jerks?" she wrote, calling for some bipartisanship.
Wahed told Steve Doocy that she shopped her op-ed to more liberal publications like the New York Times and Washington Post but they declined to publish it. She said she was honored that the Journal, a corporate cousin of Fox News, accepted her submission.
"[Liberals] don't know how to engage constructively with ideas that are not their own," she told Doocy.
Wahed said liberals have been "incredibly arrogant" toward the 63 million people who voted for President Donald Trump, adding that most of those millions are not "sexist or xenophobic" or "duped" by propaganda.
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It's a good question. So much damage has been done by both sides.
Can you imagine what will happen if they actually find a way to remove Trump???
been "incredibly arrogant" toward the 63 million people who voted for President Donald Trump
While i think arrogance and progressivism have gone hand in hand together since progressives wanted to dictate who was "fit" enough to reproduce, I think it really spilled over into our culture this century. Starting with the Daily Show, a fake news show in which combined a smarmy host who relied on every logical fallacy in the book to ridicule non progressive political positions and misleadingly edited bits were used to caricaturize and ridicule normal Americans who dissented from progressive doctrine. Liberals couldn't slobber over and worship Jon Stewart enough for his textbook propaganda campaign to otherize and dehumanize non progressive Americans, making it easy to hate and deplore them.
Trump was in many ways an understandable response to the arrogance and hatred that has characterized the Democratic Party and their creatures who control popular culture.
They might begin by ceasing to speak down or insult those that do not agree with them for starters. Alan Simpson pointed this out a few years ago during a Bill Maher interview, had they taken his advice at that time perhaps they may have saved themselves eight years of angst.
Once they have that in hand, they may want to actually put together some type of platform or another as they do not seem to have one at this particular moment (not being Mr. Trump is not a platform).
As I subscribe to neither parties lunacy it is an objective observation on my part.
Great comments. Even Nancy Pelosi, bless her heart, knows that "Impeach 45" (and similar) will not help the left regain control of any branch of federal government..
The 800 lb gorilla that is always in the room these days is the unpleasant truth that millions of Americans still support the travesty known as the Trump presidency. This is not a minor consideration, it is in many ways the heart of the matter. The "deplorables" are as much at fault for this abomination against our nation as Trump himself is.
They need to be confronted and made to comprehend the error of their ways. Otherwise we will be just waiting for the next Trump like creature to come along.
Yet progressives seem to be trying to ensure Trump's reelection.
Despite billions of dollars worth of media attacks and well over a year of progressives expressing disgust at Trump and Trump voters, "his deserve to be reelected numbers" are where Clinton's and Obama's were at this point in their first terms.
Could the reasoning for that be that the left has continued throwing mindless accusations at the wall to see if they can find something to stick, that the rest of the country has turned tone death to them, because of them? The continuous flow of venom from the left sounds like 'we are not pro-American, we're Anti-Trump'. You have people here that will continuously make vulgar accusations of the first lady, of their child, Barron - and no one on the left ever seems to stop and say, 'Are we going too far?'. This disgusts many millions of Americans, not only the people who voted for the President, but others in the middle ground......the moral 'look out for what you ask for, you just might get it' applies. No one likes the anarchy the left has created and works hard to sustain, outside of the far left and their sock-puppets.
at some point, one must ask themselves a simple question.
jiohn.. the reality is simple. as time goes on the stink of the bs becomes overwhelming and people move away from the source. even your own people are starting to smell it and are moving away.
insert any leftwing talking point site and you get the same result. traffic is falling off the cliff.
"the liberal/progressive brand is dying" 7million obama voters who voted for trump cannot be wrong.
Cheers
Perhaps Antifa, BLM, and other Soros-funded organizations can continue to use their anti-American strong-arm tactics against US citizens and legal immigrants to achieve your comment's goals.
in all the multiverses and all space and time, there is no world where today's version of the left wins the final confrontation.
we took our country back as promised and make you another promise. we will keep it.
Cheers
Will this be accomplished through force? imprisonment? or does it happen through the daily overload of all things anti Trump, conservatives or the ever popular overused broad stroke of the brush term 'deplorables' ............. there is a daily rehashing of the same ole same ole .. no new ideas, not even new ways to insult those on the right .......... just rinse repeat!
I wish nothing but the best of luck to those that feel they are qualified to show others the err of their ways - when H. was the candidate of the Democratic party in 2016!
P.s..... I voted 'None of the Above' in the past 3 Presidential elections .. I could not in good conscience vote for any of the candidates
"Can we stop being such jerks?" she wrote, calling for some bipartisanship.
that time will come but not yet... perhaps after trumps re-election in 2020 the left will do a re-think.
my bet is first they are going to go all out batschit liberal/progressive and run on "free everything"
I've been asking, with no success in getting an answer, since November 2016, what are the Dems going to do to answer the questions raised by that election? I get no other answer than daily watching the (President) Trump Bash Fest in full swing. Here as much as anywhere else.
That's no way to win a railroad......
And that's all you'll get. I give this young woman a tremendous amount of credit for standing up to call out her party's failures.
Trump is a travesty and perhaps the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to the United States outside of slavery and the treatment of the American Indians.
Resistance to him will only end when he leaves office one way or another.
Any decent human being in his shoes would have left months ago. This scumbag will have to be dragged out kicking and screaming.
Hal, Clinton has been out of office, not becuase he had the good taste to leave, but that his term was over.
But we uinderstand where you and John come from, but the question remains, are you 'far left' or 'sock-puppet'?
It's really not worth chronicling the Trump disaster with a Trumpster anymore. The more volume that his stupidity, immorality, infamy, etc. accumulates, the less likely you guys are to acknowledge any of it. I think you guys lose a few brain cells with every idiotic word that comes out of his mouth.
Then perhaps it is time for you to address the seeded article's content instead of bashing NewsTalkers' members.
Some of them , I am sure, hold out hope that his behavior will get "better" and he will be more accepted.
That will never happen , because Trump is a psychologically damaged individual and nothing is being done about that by his family or by himself. Yesterday he spent a half hour ranting in a tv interview. There is no other leader of a great nation , on earth, that talks like that... and no leaders at all outside of possibly a few banana republics or dictatorships. What on earth makes these Trumpsters think that Americans should accept it?
while you focus on words. we only care about results.
neither hillary or obama could have pulled that off.
iran is next.
Who's "Hal"?
Every aspect of this administration is an absolute disaster.
Please document your statement by providing reputable/factual citations and evidence.
" Every aspect of this administration is an absolute disaster."
Totally agree. It's like a Hollywood themed three-ring circus with a faux Congressional themed side show. Trump and his mouth has done to America what no one from the outside has ever been able to do. Brought it to its knees.
And as Sonny & Cher sang: "The Beat Goes On"
"GOP Rep. Patrick Meehan resigns from Congress amid ethics probe"
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Glad you recognize that you need it now. Better late then never, as they say.
That's contrary to why black and Hispanic unemployment in the US are at the lowest recorded levels and why North and South Korea have tentatively found common ground after 60+ years.
PS ... Your comment is a perfect example of the negativity that is discussed in the seeded article. Resist! Not My President! Impeach 45!
ROFL!!
It would take an army of Yuk Phoos to chronicle all of Trump's shortcomings...
See 7.1.4.
I have plenty of time. You can take the lead and get it started, but please remember to keep it on-topic and remain within CoC.
There are opinionated accusations in https://thenewstalkers.com/community/discussion/39548/7.1.4%20 Yuk Phoo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> comment 7.1.4 but none of them provide evidence supported by facts from reputable sources.
Yesterday he spent a half hour ranting in a tv interview.
Fidel Castro, the hero of the left, could rattle on for several hours at a time.
"Fidel Castro, the hero of the left, along with Che,"
That is a lie, and you DO know it. Why do you think it cool to say such totally untrue things when you know that it is not the truth? Do you think it makes you look like a more devoted Republican?
Oh please...get real!
"Oh please...get real!"
Why not try it yourself for once. You may be surprised to find you are only living in a dream world.
Uh....you're not everybody here on NT, even if you like to think you are. So just speak for yourself, and let the rest of us here speak for ourselves. 'K?
Did I say he did something personal to me? Don't try to deflect. You really aren't that good at it. You're much too obvious.
And just where did I ever say the words "Resist, Not my President", Impeach 45? Hmm?
Do try, at the very least, to not to deflect from what I actually said. If you can't, or don't feel you can, address what I actually said, then don't expect to get a reply from me. I don't play with taunting children here, as NT is a site for adult discussion.
Norman, are you a typical Trumpster? Do you think you represent the average Trump follower? If so it is a sad sad situation.
And you think that totally exonerates him? The REPUBLICAN Intel committee.
Norman , that report is the official release of something that came out a few weeks ago. The House Intelligence Committee under the leadership of the buffoon Devin Nunes, ran a silly and inadequate 'investigation' of the Russian interference in the election. Nunes might be the most discredited member of Congress at this point, and is a known bootlicker of President* Trump. If you haven't guessed yet, this new report is worthless.
Norman, the House Intelligence Committee Report is a piece of garbage. I am shocked you would offer it as 'evidence'.
I've noticed that your recent comments to me for a few weeks have taken a hostile, accusatory tone, and this saddens me. In comment 7.1.16 I did not accuse you of saying those things, Raven Wing, so please relax. I addressed negativity as it applied to the seeded article . Here is my complete comment that you obviously didn't understand:
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skirting the CoC [ph]
Skirting the CoC [ph]
Like you don't about Obama or Clinton???? Really??
When was I ever a Hillary supporter? I was 100% a Bernie supporter, beyond that I was anyone but Trump. Literally ANYONE but Trump. I would have voted for Gary Busey before I would vote for Trump.
So who did you vote for? I hope it was Johnson.
I voted for the person with the best chance of stopping the disaster we are all currently suffering through. Hint - she got 3 million more votes from actual voters than Donald Trump.
Then you answered your own question about when you became a Hillary supporter. Voting for Hillary was supporting Hillary.
You miss the point entirely. Voting for a the lesser of two evils to stop the greater evil from winning is not the same thing as supporting evil.
You miss the point Bernie never entered the race to win. He was there to drag the party farther to the left and roundup the socialists to be Hillary voters. Bernie was a Hillary supporter just like you. NPR did an interview with him at the beginning of his campaign and he admitted he had no chance of winning and he was there to use the election to spread his socialist propaganda.
That is nonsense.
The "disaster"they are speaking of is that everyone is finding out just how big a bunch of fear mongering bs artists they are. None of the consequences of a Trump victory.
The economy has crashed and is in fact doing better than under Obama.
Unemployment is down to its lowest point in years.
We are not at war and our opponents are afraid of us and are now willing to negotiate .
Illegal aliens are being rounded up and deported as we speak.
Things are going pretty well all in all and that is just disastrous for the left.
America really is becoming great again .
All US citizens and legal residents are "suffering" because DJT is POTUS? Please explain, and use specific citations to support your claim.
Hillary's high school yearbook popularity train left the station on November 8, 2016.
You forgot Barak Obama.
yepp :)
That alone is enough to warrant one hell of a party.
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Real Americans disagree.
As usual, when asked "How's he doing?", two thirds of the country pretty much come down in the,"He sucks ", column.
04-28-2018
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However it does seem we have a strong concentration of N24's here on NewsTalkers.
( in August 1974 when he resigned from office, Nixon's Presidential Job Approval rating was 24% )
I guess they'd be called T30's today.
For the T30's even that old chestnut no longer holds true.
"The only way he could lose an election would be to get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
T30's would forgive Trump for a dead girl.
I've managed to live through and survive decades of candidates for whom I didn't vote. It's incomprehensible to me that so-called "adults" have such long-term angst over Hillary's loss.
It's mind boggling that these very same "adults" expect to be taken seriously.
It's not 2/3 of the country. It's 2/3 of those asked. You want to find out what everybody thinks? Ask EVERYBODY. Don't take a small group and try to apply their results to everybody. I thought people would have realized the inaccuracy of polls after the 2016 election.
According to my US birth certificate and US passport, the US government considers me a "real" American (citizen). Please use facts from unbiased sources to explain who you believe are "Real Americans".
That's an understatement. Give him a talking point or a poll and he almost has an orgasm.
The future is bright again on literally all counts.
This is why it is useless to attempt dialogue with a Trumpster. That anyone could say this with a straight face in this age is a sign that intelligent conversation with them is a nonstarter.
How much time did Trump spend degrading Obama for things like playing too much golf and having high staff turnover? Now not only is he unprecedented in both areas, but he hasn’t even come close to filling all the critical government positions that he is responsible for. The ones he has filled have largely been the exact same swamp dwellers that he vowed to eradicate from the federal government. No decent lawyer will take him as a client because of what a moron he is, so he’s stuck with bottom feeders like Cohen, who got his ass owned by the FBI. China is cozying up to Russia to marginalize our status among nations, while the whole world looks at Trump with the disgust he is suited for.
I could do this for hours, but I’m not going to, because that is clearly your side’s objective. You’ve taken a page out of the scumbag lawyer playbook, but instead of burying the opposition in red tape and paperwork, you are routinely asking for detailed chronologies and comprehensive diatribes about the most prolific liar man has ever witnessed. You know everything that we know, but you pretend that it needs to presented over and over and over in order to mount a meaningful offensive on your master. No, it does not. Get a new tactic because you’re just continuing to make yourselves look like idiots with what you are trying to do.
No response? Not surprising.
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Odd, it worked for republicans.
I don't think its best to be jerks when facing the other side. But I do understand having to meet people where they are. That might seem jerky, but sometimes your message goes right over their heads if you don't speak their language. I really don't think conservatives know what a jerk looks like given their love of all Trump behaviors, especially that part.
And......I rest my case.
Good one. Ballyhoo, Thomas Fuller ... etc. Seems that some people don't know historical/political commentary very well.
I am not wagering that the insanity will ever end.
Until Senate Leader McConnell allows the bill to protect the Mueller investigation to proceed, don't even talk about bi-partisanship......It came out of committee with a 14 to 7 bi-partisan vote. We need a little practice what we're preaching.
Why do you need a bill to protect Mueller? Something they are trying to hide? Or is it that Mueller is Democrats LAST chance of hanging on to any power in Washington? We already know his farce of an investigation into "Russiagate" has come up empty.
Or maybe let the investigation go where it may. If there is nothing there, Republican counsel Mueller will certainly side with you. If there is something there, the nation needs to know.
The reality is that this investigation has to be allowed to go to completion.
It seems to me we heard that before. LOL these days the nation is an echo chamber.
dems verse cons and we the people are the real losers.
Oh, it's complete. Has been complete for a while now. The result: No evidence. Now it's a last ditch attempt for the Dems to give the appearance that they are relevant by going after Cohen with a hooker in tow.
'Can We Stop Being Such Jerks?'
I seriously doubt many people on either side can stop being such jerks to each other. Too many people seem too invest in the image of both political parties and ideologies. Like sports fans they are naturally bias and closed minded to the opposing side. Only this isn't a game its our country and we all suffer the results of this nations political one upmanship crap.
United we stood, devided we will fall, sooner or later, one way or another.
I'm glad to see educated Democrats like Annafi Wahed and those on "the Right" speak out against radicalism, because radicals in both parties selfishly want to destroy what unifies our constitutional republic so their agendas "win".
personally, I rather enjoy it. you act like something has changed when it has been this way since the start.
where we go one we go all, some will be dragged forth against their will.
exactly... people who do not put our country, our production, our borders and our jobs first will not win.
believe it or not, it is a fight to the death if need be.
Cheers
For sure politician who play the political game and put one upmanship and infighting ahead of We the people and the problems e this country faces are not doing this country any good.
IMO we did not hire these politicians to try to destroy each other we hire then to work together to solve the nations problems.
Cheers
at the moment the problem we hired trump to solve is the politicians both left and right who have been screwing us over for decades. they not only should be destroyed but they will be destroyed or forced to resign,
either way, they are done. socialism, communism, globalism, (all that leftwing crap) will not be tolerated. we will burn this country out from under them if required and build it again.
the only "ism we will accept is Americanism
Who is "we" exactly? You?
You do share a vision with such luminaries as Hitler and Pol Pot though. Illustrious company to be certain.
Personally I dropped my association with both political parties and I research ALL the candidates and vote for whom I believe is the best candidate regardless of their party affiliation.
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"she argues that her fellow liberals have become "arrogant" in political discourse."
I didn't know Liberals "Had just become arrogant". I always thought they were.