The condemnation of "thoughts and prayers" seems to have really taken off once people realized that these are conservative markers, and most people do not want to be conservatives any more. (The fact that the outgroup is responsible for the situation has not changed, of course.)
I think that most people agree that a situation they find horrible might require some kind of response, but in the context of politics are afraid that the other side is just going to use it as a pretext to implement their nefarious agenda.
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Some agendas are nefarious
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Yes. But none of my children actually wants to kill the other. They just have very different ideas about what should happen, and poor awareness about how different the experience, world model and resulting policy preferences of the other.
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