In perhaps the largest strawman ever built on Daily Kos, the author of this diary attributes and assigns certain political postions to "most of the hard left."
The diarists assigns these positions to the "hard left" and then proceeds to argue against them.
Please note: The diarist claims she is responding to a diary. So apparently the diarist is accusing the author of that diary of holding these positions as well.
Assigning positions....putting words, your words into someone else's mouth, and then arguing against your own words....is called a strawman argument.
Here are the positions assigned to the hard left of Daily Kos:
"Obama = Bush."
"Obama is a torturer"
"someone truly Progressive should primary Obama"
The diarist provides NO links to anyone actually saying these things.
The diarist does not quote any one actually saying these things.
Let alone the author of the diary she is "responding to."
The diarist does not say SOME of the hard left on Daily Kos, but "most of the hard left." The diarist does NOT provide any proof that this is what MOST of the hard left believe.
The diarist does present the reason that the diarist is making these claims, however: "I'm feeling very vindictive right now,"
No reason, no logic, no facts.
Pure emotion....vindictiveness.
The diarist is angry and vindictive. The diarist feels this gives them the right to assign positions to a vast swath of people at Daily Kos and on the hard left.
And having assigned them positions they do not hold....condemn them for those positions. That they do NOT hold.
Positions that in my opinion (just as valid as the diarists) a VERY small percentage of people at Daily Kos hold.
And that the author of the diary being responded to has never to my knowledge, espoused or advocated for.
It is a deeply dishonest diary. Written using deeply dishonest TACTICS. Written out of admitted vindictiveness...
With no other motive than to vindictively attack the diarists political opponents
Daily Kos polls are unscientific. But they are still better than just making shit up and assigning it to other people....for political purposes. So lets gather at least a PARTICLE of truth to rebut this dishonest diary.