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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 May 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Jake M. Grumbach

    People need to come to terms with this.https://twitter.com/JakeMGrumbach/status/1392568517493288961 …

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    Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach
    Very sorry to say that the only time in US history when "moderates" ruled and things weren't polarized involved excluding Black people from politics, and that this indeed calls into question many contemporary appeals from scholars and pundits to reduce polarization
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      1. left-litwick‏ @leftistlitwick 12 May 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        American democracy is barely 50 years old

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      2. Stephen Robinson‏ @SER1897 12 May 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I’ve written about this for a while now. The more diverse the Democratic Party became (as well as the overall voting electorate), the more the GOP demonized them.

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      3. Stephen Robinson‏ @SER1897 12 May 2021
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        The media avoids confronting the direct racism of the modern GOP, likely bc it falls for the false narrative that the “left” is just white “woke” college students.

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      2. Duncan Jones‏Verified account @ManMadeMoon 12 May 2021
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        Maybe so, but that polarization will be less toxic if the underlying policies of the nation ensure that ALL working people have a living wage and cannot be made bankrupt by injury or illness.

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      1. Erich DeLang‏ @erichdelang 13 May 2021
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        Part of the problem might be that not only have they, they’ve made peace with it as well. There’s a set of anti-woke Substackers that are smart enough I know they know this, and amoral enough I’m not sure they really care.

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      1. Madame Pratolungo joining Mastodon‏ @MadamePratolung 13 May 2021
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        🤔Yes, Americans must come to terms w/ the long (and ongoing) history of racism; but it's misguided to insist that we're not more polarized than in past. Compare Nixon's impeachment to Trump's! This argument will confuse, not empower, the crucial cause of racial justice.

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      1. deadgod‏ @equiprimordial 13 May 2021
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        While sailing across the ocean, it's a bad time to *reach across the aisle to get things done* with Flat Earthers. When it comes to resistance to empirical compulsion and denial of syllogistic logic, there is no rational moderate 'middle' — there's no one there to talk to.

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      1. Phil Stewart‏ @Retinalia 13 May 2021
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        I fear we may only re-map whom it is OK to tyrannize. I hope we are capable of something less base and spiritually deflating.

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