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Originally Posted by edslunch
I think that perspective makes it easy for people to minimize this as a bunch of good old boy doufuses just there for selfies vs any sort of real threat. I started feeling that way for a while until the rest of the news started coming out.
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I'm concerned that the in-group/out-group mentality made even stronger by the emotional response to what happened on the 6th is resulting in the failure to recognize that the problems at the root of this insurrection are American problems, not just the problems of some hillbilly insurrectionists. Many of those people are victims of being conned as well. Why is it that tens of millions of Americans are so susceptible to that?
America needs to grapple with both how to bring the people who believe the lies back into a shared reality and how to address the root causes that made so many millions of Americans vulnerable to manipulation. Dismissing the millions of so-called deplorables won't make them disappear. It is quite possible that the left-right divide worsens out of a desire for vengeance and entrenched perception of individuals on the other side as the enemy. Really though, it's those people who have orchestrated and enabled the con to happen who should be targeted while the victims of the con should be helped back to reality and the systemic weaknesses that made them vulnerable should be addressed to prevent future cons.