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Originally Posted by jayswin
You have to give it to the right, they nailed the political game in an impressive way. The right does nothing but promote disgusting, abhorrent, divisive views and bills and pushes that further and further each year.
But they've convinced us as a society that the problem is not them becoming more disgusting and extremist by the day.....it's the left for.....literally any response they have to anything. We're so stupid as a people. But any number of intelligent people have predicted it was coming to exactly this.
Weird how some on here that would support the theories of where our society was headed in terms of division are also foolishly condemning the left for not playing their proper part in the rights game as if that matters, lol. Not naming names.
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It’s not that we are stupid as a people, but we as a species still act not that much different than we did in the time of cavemen. What I mean by that is our fight or flight response and against things that are a threat to us. The dynamics of the world are changing pretty quickly but in the us this means the people who have generally held power - white, male, Christians - are losing that power. So they’ve latched on to this progressiveness is evil and will destroy society. They then seize in the most ridiculous examples of that to stoke the fires of people who feel threatened and left behind.
The question that I keep coming back to and struggle to answer is what to do about. Continue to call people deplorable, isn’t likely to do it, even if it’s true. The underlying attraction to this is self defence like I said, but I also don’t know how to combat that. I guess to turn it back to Trump it is largely on him. He is perfectly appealing to this base nature and I willing to lie and perpetuate a fraud in pursuit not of a greater good, but his own personal gain. It’s what makes him dangerous. I could disagree with republicans before but at least they weren’t lying about plainly obvious things, like the election was stolen crap.
Long meandering post, too early in the morning. I’m frustrated and saddened by where this is heading.