Democrats arent held to a "higher" standard, as much as republicans are

[Eliot Rosewater]

never held to any standard by anyone on their side.

None.

A democrat cant innocently use a private server, a republican can go on national television and ask our ENEMY to infiltrate our government.

A democrat cant run a highly rated charity helping millions of people, a republican can take money under false pretenses and spend it on himself.

There are other examples, you can add to the list if you like.

What this then means is, and I know you know it, most on that side dont think there are two parties, two sides, etc. They think we are the enemy and we have to be dealt with accordingly.

They have become enemies by supporting traitors, but even during Obama era when they did everything possible to prevent him from doing his job, most democrats still saw republicans as Americans.

They do NOT consider YOU or me an American, they consider you or me an enemy. And Trump is their leader.

[dlk]

1. There is Most Definitely a Double Standard

What to do about it is the challenge.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Oh, thanks for reminding me what I wanted to add.

To take it to the extreme, though, there is NOT a double standard (this is what I wanted the OP to say, I spaced it)

There is a standard for dems and NO standard for the cons.

Or a double standard, like you say, but this is so fucking ridiculous.

A private server where NOTHING happened because of it

[Hortensis]

3. We became America's big threat at the end of the Cold War.

Cons always know there is some big enemy they must battle, and they turned/were turned inward against us as they transferred their hostility from Russia to us. Their weakness predisposed them, but I'm sure they were specifically turned on us as part of a strategy to cripple the electorate.

I watched it happen in the 1990s, even thought I recognized a cause and effect when Russia was taken away from them and Democrats became targets of far greater hostility than before, attacks on Bill Clinton like nothing before, but I never realized how bad it would become, of course.

[CrispyQ]

4. It is this hypocrisy that wears me down.

It's so fucking maddening, their superior attitudes, like they've won this power & influence fair & square, when in reality, they've been lying, cheating & stealing for almost four decades now. And a media that never calls them out on it, & in fact, is in on it. Remember CBS CEO saying that Trump may not be good for America but he was good for CBS.

[VOX]

5. A Democrat cannot be a person of color, because they're anti-American Muslim Marxists.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/311686-trump-ny-co-chair-wishes-death-on-obama

Trump-booster Carl Palladino on the Obamas: "...Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford. He dies before trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to [senior White House adviser] Valerie Jarrett, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her being a nice person and decapitated her."

Asked "What would you like to see go in 2017?" Paladino attacked the first lady in sexual and racist terms: “Michelle Obama. I’d like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortable in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”

Barack Obama was able to turn the racism on its head by having some fun with the absurdity of it:
"Let's face it, Fox, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It will be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya."

"These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be."

[JI7]

6. Even after the election they ate holding Hillary to a higher standard than Trump