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So in America, the Republicans are big on calling people harsh names. They accuse people of being traitors, cowards, anti-american, unpatriotic, allies of terrorism, and all other sorts of things like that if that particular person doesn't agree with Republican ideology in foreign affairs.
Recently there was this Democrat who suggested we need to immediately begin pulling troops out of Iraq. This guy was a highly decorated combat veteran, and a very respected person (apparently) within the military community, but some Republicans (none of whom, I believe, served in the military at all) began calling him names like those mentioned above; coward, traitor, ally of terrorism, that sort of stuff.
My mom heard this and commented that she'd never heard of anything like this in British politics, even though their Parliament was notoriously more raucuss.
But I don't buy that.
I mean, the way the British talk, it's like "Is the Honorable Prime Minister really such an arrogant, dispicable, horrible human being as to suggest that we accept this fascist policy that would totally demean the British Public and shatter Britain's standing in the world as a whole? Does the Prime Minister really want to throw Britain to the savages and have all of our daughters become prostitutes and our sons murderers? Is that what the Honorable Prime Minister really wants?"
At least, that's how it seems to me.
Do British politicians accuse those who disagree with them of being things like cowards and un-patriortic and allied with terrorism?
Just checking,
Jacob
Recently there was this Democrat who suggested we need to immediately begin pulling troops out of Iraq. This guy was a highly decorated combat veteran, and a very respected person (apparently) within the military community, but some Republicans (none of whom, I believe, served in the military at all) began calling him names like those mentioned above; coward, traitor, ally of terrorism, that sort of stuff.
My mom heard this and commented that she'd never heard of anything like this in British politics, even though their Parliament was notoriously more raucuss.
But I don't buy that.
I mean, the way the British talk, it's like "Is the Honorable Prime Minister really such an arrogant, dispicable, horrible human being as to suggest that we accept this fascist policy that would totally demean the British Public and shatter Britain's standing in the world as a whole? Does the Prime Minister really want to throw Britain to the savages and have all of our daughters become prostitutes and our sons murderers? Is that what the Honorable Prime Minister really wants?"
At least, that's how it seems to me.
Do British politicians accuse those who disagree with them of being things like cowards and un-patriortic and allied with terrorism?
Just checking,
Jacob