It's just terrible psychology to think that acknowledging and addressing problems within your own side makes it appear less credible to the waverers who could be persuaded to vote for it. That's what makes it credible.
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Watch this most of the left. The people who accosted Pelosi were wrong. I oppose their actions. Just like that I am better than you. And all the voters you should try to court see what you really are.
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I don't know what this means.
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I can easily condemn bad actors on the right. While most voices on the left won't do likewise. They tone police about the word mobs or play whataboutism. The average voter doesn't want mobs accosting people they disagree with. So this will hurt the left.
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Well, yeah, obviously, but I'm not sure how happy I'd be about consciously throwing chum out the back of the social studies boat for the right-wing sharks.
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What does that mean in non-metaphorical terms?
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That you have principles and apply them consistently.
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Like not supporting gulags is right wing chum.
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More importantly, the problems on the left (Identity Politics, I’m looking at you) are EMPOWERING the right. No IP/left sanctimoniousness, no Trump, Fords, Brexit, etc.
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When the right is declared the ultimate evil and then ceded to them are things like free speech, due process or just humor... when freedoms are deemed evil what the hell am I supposed to think of your group?
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especially when their definition of "the right" is people like me, who are just centre right liberals with slightly different economic views and.. a belief in objective reality
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It's the lack of addressing the problems on the left that's feeding the right.
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100% correct. But it's not just the left, it's also the centrist parties (at least in Germany). They put their head in the sand and that feeds the right.
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Yeah plenty of people ignored this nonsense for too long. I think that's changing now. The impact is getting too loud for people to ignore. Also I feel like the rampant shaming is losing power. Call people a racist/supremacist/'phobe etc all you want, dilutes it's the connotation
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I'm left-leaning but my criticisms are almost exclusively directed at the far left who've hijacked the conversation. There is more than enough criticism of the right in the MSM. The left badly needs to clean up its own doorstep.
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I think many of them react to it out of fear. They can't bring themselves enough out of "election panic" to think clearly. I also think they recognize that party loyalty carries a short-term advantage.
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But it has been two years already. (In the US, at least) I could under the panic right after the election, but we really should have moved on by now. Panic isn't effective.
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I have a few thoughts about this. The first thing that comes to mind is that we are weeks from an election that will potentially decide a lot, so the emotions are to be expected. Regarding its effectiveness in this situation, I agree.
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But I think we can all see that for many people, their emotions cloud their ability to discern what will or won't be effective behavior.
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That's a fair point. I just hope that panic and righteous indignation won't hurt our chances of winning back some seats next month. I think we have a good shot at some of them if we can just be smart about it. But I think we've also began to confuse high emotion with caring 1\
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About something. I wish there was a way to make collected and calm strategizing cool again.
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Also, can we can the name calling? It doesn't help.
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Yeah, I think that happens in two instances: People giving into urges they ultimately know are destructive because it feels good, and people deciding the other person is evil and therefore is beyond convincing, and deserving of everything bad said to them.
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