Perhaps, but funny how to conservatives the radicalism of the Tea Party was just patriots "taking back their country," even though Tea Party tactics were, if anything, more extreme than the left's now, while milder protests now by the left leave them clutching their pearls.
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Replying to @gorskon @c0nc0rdance and
Yea, I mean we know reactionaries are reacting to what they perceive to be threats. But they also make up or exaggerate threats, because that is their fuel. Blaming the left for this is silly as there is no way for them not to piss off the right other than stop existing.
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Replying to @chrisiousity @gorskon and
I don't think blaming individuals makes any sense. There's a worrying trend in political polarization, ideological silos. It's unlike what we've seen in the past. http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/ …pic.twitter.com/P5COZpDUjk
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Replying to @c0nc0rdance @chrisiousity and
"Americans with different political views are a threat to our nation" is bad rhetoric, dangerous to our democracy, and increasing over time. I see Trump as a symptom of that growing divide, but don't know causes or solutions.pic.twitter.com/8URBhKpILs
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Replying to @c0nc0rdance @gorskon and
Yea, I've seen these. And to be honest I am not sure there is any immediate solution. I recently re-examined a book (for a video I am doing) from 2008 called "State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind" by a psychologist who worked in DC.
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Replying to @chrisiousity @gorskon and
I live it every day; my wife is decidedly more conservative than I am, and her family are the furthest to the right it is possible to go. I grew up Republican, in an era when you could be a Rockefeller Republican: pro-intellectual, fiscal conservatism, state&local govt centric.
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Replying to @c0nc0rdance @chrisiousity and
From age 18, when I cast my first vote for Reagan to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I voted 99% Republican and was very conservative. Beginning in the 1990s the rising craziness of the Republican Party increasingly bothered me until I finally left after the last straw (Iraq).
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Replying to @gorskon @c0nc0rdance and
I remember...I think I was there for the final conversion. I didn't like Clinton either but I found the bigotry, homophobia and anti-science of the Gingrich Republicans worse. The last election I voted R in congress was 1996 - for Morella who was a reasonable person.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon and
Then I end up in Virginia, where if you voted R the state candidates literally wanted to ban birth control! The Democrats were centrist vs radical ideologues foaming at the mouth about basic health necessities for women. Al Gore was a centrist technocrat (my favorite).
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @gorskon and
Finally when I arrived in Philly in 2016 Trump was actively running for president, I was at the DMV, and they gave me the choice again, R or D. I registered as a Democrat for the first time in my life. There is no middle ground any more, they've pulled too far into crazy town.
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I reached that point after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Replying to @gorskon @c0nc0rdance and
That made me specifically despise Bush/Cheney too, as did him squandering our surplus on tax breaks rather than paying down the national debt. That's not what I think of when I think of what a Republican should be, but probably hasn't actually existed since about 1994.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @c0nc0rdance and
Try 1980. Republicans haven't been the party of fiscal responsibility since before Reagan.
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