re: #59 A Mom Anon

Exactly. This stuff wouldn’t have spread if it had been marginalized from the beginning.

Remember how Code Pink got started? It was supposed to be a left wing anti-war group who wanted the troops home. And many people sided with them over Iraq. But, and this is the big old but in the room, they were marginalized as soon as they went over the edge. You don’t see them all over TV, you don’t see politicians siding with them or quoting them, you don’t see CP flag stickers and t-shirts all over the place, etc, etc. Why? Because they were marginalized and quite frankly, a lot of us liberal types find their idiotic attention seeking at congressional hearings embarrassing. There aren’t Code Pink politicians running on a CP platform like the Tea Party. Because the left tends to marginalize and mostly ignore our nuts. If they do have a point it gets absorbed, sanely into policy and discussions of policy. We’re not perfect over here in lefty land, but we tend to be more sane when it comes to lawmaking and governance. That marginalizing is part of the reason why.

Code Pink was one of those groups which posed as leftwing, but its libertarian leader has been exposed over over time for who she really is. Libertarians operate a lot like this. See: Glenn Greenwald, et al.