I'm beginning to think that reactionary politics (from any faction, not just right wingers) is the norm in America and that trying to argue for reason and moderation is a lost cause in this country
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Mmh. It's like if you criticized the cooking at a restaurant and someone responded "WELL YOU'RE NOT A GREAT COOK, EITHER". Complete distortion.
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I think it's fair to blame the left and right alike for working so hard to brainwash people into this dumbass tribalism. Not to imply that people don't think that way by default, but the propaganda is pervasive.
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it's ridiculously easy to get people to align tribally based on ethnic/racial terms. it's no accident that both parties have swung hard into identitarian messaging.
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Or any other terms you care to mention, really. It's more arbitrary than we give it credit for. "THEY, THEY are obsessed with identity politics. Not us!" - 0 irony detected
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