I don’t think they’re racist incidentally (though Trump and 50% of his crony set led by Miller clearly are). But I do think their resentment and vengefulness is rooted in a mix of deep willful ignorance about how the world works, and denial of their own role in their condition.
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Ie they made key life choices in the thirty years since Reagan that led to their current state and have no intention of accepting any blame for it while there are weaker voiceless people who can be blamed. Maybe I’d be the same if I’d made that same series of life choices.
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One of my rules is to avoid preaching, except on rare occasions to the choir (I don’t get why that’s a bad thing... preaching is best restricted to those who’ve opted in).
My attitude to Trumpies has always been: you make your choices, I make mine, we don’t have to be friends.
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Their choices have created consequences we all have to deal with. I don’t really care to judge or punish or exact revenge myself (a very unscorpio thing about me is I’m not at all vengeful; I simply drop people I don’t want in my life... win-win or no deal).
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Somewhere between next week and 2024, their turn at bat will end. Everything comes to an end, even the agency of conspiratorial and ignorant revenge seekers out to destroy institutions many like and rely on. The question then is: what next?
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I think 15% of anti-Trumpies will seek to heal and re-engage. Futile. The only thing worse than people out for revenge is people who get revenge but realize they’re as miserable as ever.
The instinct to forgive, heal, and re-engage in thus case will only deepen the resentment.
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Maybe 30% will be in a mood for their own revenge, triggering a vendetta cycle. They’ll fail. The modern world is simply not set up to sustain indefinite vendetta cycles. It’s just not worth it and too many people have better things to do with their lives.
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That leaves 55%, including me, who have lost faith in anyone who voted Trump or enabled him, and will simply disengage. Ghost. Flip the bozobit. Build defenses against a repeat, but otherwise fork off a reality where they are unwelcome and will need to overcome hostility to join.
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That will all shake out as it will, but to bring it back to the problem of media, that’s one institution Biden won’t be able to buy time for if he wins. Whatever the outcome, the media has to reform now or die. Nobody cares enough about them, or needs them enough, to save them.
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