If you think that people who vote for the political figure you disagree with must necessarily be psychopaths, complete buffoons, idiots, brainwashed, whiny, or angrily selfish, then you should seriously reconsider like, all of your beliefs in everything
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Because you're ascribing *morality* to your beliefs; you're focusing on the depravity of the opposition and the holiness of your own tribe. In principle, you're no better than the religious, those who go to war, and those who justified slavery
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you are utterly failing to understand that someone's brain and experience can be constructed in such a way that the opposing policies actually seem like a good, loving, helpful thing for humanity that satisfies thier deepest values. Your politics has destroyed your compassion.
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Whenever I meet someone who categorizes those they disagree with as motivated by darkness, I immediately become afraid of them, because I know their love has concrete limits, and if I want to connect with them I have to perform within their approved limits or be rejected.
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My politics: let’s try to guarantee healthcare as a basic right and stop putting people in jail for drugs use.
Their politics: we must allow these billion dollar companies to pollute drinking water and pay people dogshit wages
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you're exactly making my point. And you know they would say
"My politics: Let's encourage economic growth that will benefit everyone
Their politics: People should waste taxpayer money to keep them going so they can shoot up more legal heroin"
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I can empathize with how someone ended up in a place to want to hurt people to feel better. But I’ll still work to stop them and reveal the actual effects of what they support rather than what they think is happening. I don’t think they are evil, just wrong. The politicians tho..
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Hot take;
Maybe they are these things no matter who they vote for.
Most who have the right to vote are, at least to some degree, many of these things.
It’s easy for those who partake in the Left & Right games to call eachother idiots because many of them are
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