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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Jun 2018
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      The left today has been successfully caricatured as crypto-Stalinist thought police demanding compliance with fake science and virtue-signaling identity performance from all, on the way to Gulag World with straight white males at the bottom. Ideally killing millions along the way

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Jun 2018
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      How the hell did we end up there from the basics that attract people to the left? 1. Seeing all living things as intrinsically valuable 2. Being upset by others’ pain 2. Accepting that we share a messy planet 3. Being curious about the future and open to letting go the past

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        1. Ben Basche‏ @basche42 23 Jun 2018
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          Propaganda and an adversary with zero interest in good faith arguments ?

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        2. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 23 Jun 2018
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          As with the Right, there’s more than one philosophical tradition on the Left which is why, looking at another era, the battle between Social Democratic trade unionists and Stalinist Communists to control union locals was so bloody. The authoritarians are ascendant again

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        3. mark safranski‏ @zenpundit 23 Jun 2018
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          You can amend that to the authoritarians being ascendant across the spectrum BTW not merely on the Left

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        1. Bec‏ @beccanalia 23 Jun 2018
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          The GOP has, since the late 70s sought to retain power through fear. First, they made abortion a political issue. Before then, the religious south hadn’t thought about it in that way. Since then, GOP Reps & Senators have steadily attacked their state’s education systems.

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        2. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 23 Jun 2018
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          One answer is that the people who create and believe this stuff are profoundly and overwhelmingly terrified by social systems that support these traits. Their response is a full-blown NUKE IT FROM ORBIT panic in response to...basic human decency, empathy, patience, and curiosity.

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        3. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 23 Jun 2018
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          They may simply fear the unknown, they may believe that these things don't / can't / shouldn't scale, and that any positive acknowledgement from social and legal systems is the road to ruin. Or they may know that without personal change, they'll be at a loss in a better society.

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        1. Bec‏ @beccanalia 23 Jun 2018
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          There has been two-to-three generations of people in t/South & Midwest who have been the victims of terrible education systems b/c GOP-dominated state legislatures have cut funding. Add to this the rise of evangelicals in politics (they don’t value curiosity) & Kock billions ...

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        1. Bec‏ @beccanalia 23 Jun 2018
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          Then, you also have the 40 yo propaganda that white people are the victims of being forgotten by “the elites”—when GOP elites have for the same time, been instrumental in stripping jobs, health care, and ANY safety net to help the poor from states.

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        1. Bec‏ @beccanalia 23 Jun 2018
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          Spend the same amount of time telling low-information, badly educated (whether they make $30K or $300K) people who have been inculcated that YOU DON’T ASK or question anything, + the loss of major industry + decades of fear mongering, etc. & you have a large # angry people.

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        1. Bec‏ @beccanalia 23 Jun 2018
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          Now, it’s a fact that most of Trump’s voters are middle- to high-earners who are white and who also happen to be racists. The low information + bad education + evangelical influence is strong there, too. PLUS, all of them have been told their self-righteousness is OK.

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