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Please, don't shoot the messenger.

I'm going to share a tweet with you that is not my own tweet but one that more than 200k people have upvoted. If you want to see a list of topics that motivated Trump re-election: https://twitter.com/wildbarestepf/status/1854026810331365823



Those are a certainly list of ideas which right wingers have about the left. There's probably not much we can do about people who believe that stuff. They need to have a punching bag.

My main issue with right wingers is the derision, mockery, and anger which they direct at their political opponents. People talk about division in the country. I think that's by design. Right wingers have been doing this since the days when Paul Harvey was on the radio, and then later on Rush Limbaugh.


It's an interesting list. Definitely something for everyone on there.


So mostly a bunch of topics the sheer majority of people are also concerned about, yet framed as if anybody who doesn't fall in line behind the double-talking autocrat is personally responsible for them? Sounds about right - the same old story of one arm of the media convincing its associated tribe that all the corporate authoritarian policies they're suffering from are the personal desires of the other tribe to deliberately harm them, and that more authoritarianism of the correct flavor is the fix.

I was responsible enough to put aside my hate for the system and vote conservatively, rather than indulging in lashing out at my fellow citizens. It's a true shame for western civilization that more people were not.




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