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I could feel this in myself. I want Biden to be president, but my experiences with the left this last year still gave me a little shot of joy every time Trump did well

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Alex Tabarrok

@ATabarrok

Nov 4, 2020

My takeaway is that a large number of people HATE the cultural left (not the econ left) and are willing to put up with almost anything, including incompetence, chaos, corruption and bad policy, to signal their views loud and clear.

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So basically, you are all babies in the US? Like, this kind of conduct - willingness to put up with almost anything, including incompetence, chaos, corruption and bad policy - just to signal cultural views is not what an adult would do. It's a conduct of some bratty teen.

Aella

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Dismissing pain just makes people angry. When I was dismissed as a "bratty teen" it left lifelong scars.

6:21 PM · Nov 4, 2020

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"When I was dismissed as a "bratty teen" it left lifelong scars." And so...cheer for Trump? I fail to see the logic.

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I mean trump is bad. He shouldn't be president. But to tell someone who's suffering that they are the problem and nobody cares, will only make them hate you.

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But it is really not that, it is burning the forest over one chopped tree. It is like when you were a teen and was dismissed as such, you would go and burn your house to the ground. And kill both your parents. This is about the scale of consequences.