I did not even know I was supposed to ping all parties spoken about. This is a public site and I see many of you as reactionary due to resenting the past weaknesses of our team. Even to the point of promoting not voting for him which is crazy! If you need to put some sinister communistic thing onto me, good luck. People that know me know I am a true conservative. And I repeat, Romney was not my choice...but I am smart and know that with Ryan, we have a very good shot at major reductions in government and taxes and that is very very moral!
Again, reactionary is a political term of art. It means “conservative,” especially to Marxists, and to movement conservatives well studied in Marxist literature, which is where you will predominantly see that term. It is a derisive portrayal of those who wish to conserve a traditional belief or culture against the inevitable success of progressive cultural evolution. It implies thoughtless adherence to the “old ways,” whatever those may be.
In our own culture war, and on this site in particular, being “reactionary” is being that bitter clinger to God, guns, and Bible, as well as all the political principles that derive from such beliefs. Obama, true Marxist that he is, in that quip captures the attitude of the left’s moral superiority perfectly. That’s why the term is used. It is powerful propaganda.
But if you didn’t know any of that, that’s fine. Many people get through college hearing lots of terms and using them without realizing their wider range of meaning, especially as the language of academic leftists.
And, yes, it is customary here to ping anyone you may mention in a post, and it really is just common sense. You want to always give a person a chance to defend themselves rather than berate them behind their back. Not very sporting, that. Bad form.