Calling Republicans jealous and afraid is a good way to make yourself feel better but very much misses the character of what's happening. The "I'm a superior son of a bitch" attitude of leftists is gross. Saying "they're just jealous" is something you tell children.
What you're saying here is "we're better than everyone else and everyone else disagrees with my positions because they envy how awesome we are".
Can you please explain the character of what's happening in a way that isn't demeaning to anyone? It's hard for me to view these events while inside without assigning blame.
Race and class friction and conflict in America is getting more complex than black and white, and many people are still stuck thinking of it that old way. A whole lot of people a stuck in rather well insulated ideology bubbles and there's not much self-doubt going on.
It's really quite difficult to not be demeaning because the core of the problem is bigotry across the political spectrum, making significant unequal decisions about individuals based on shallow characteristics (appearance, ethnicity, gender expression). And you can't really have a discussion about it because nobody will accept that making decisions based on a person's race/gender/... is discrimination regardless of which group gets the positive benefit. And you can't really have a discussion about it because "yeah but what the other guys did or are still doing is way worse".
Bottom line: to succeed in the 21st century you have to weigh pros and cons and live in the grey area. This is an optimization problem not a battle between good and evil. Viewing the world exclusively through the "good vs evil" lens is going to lead to a civilization threatening war.
Oh please. Between "libtards" and "snowflakes" and general condescension and insults comming from the the right for years and years, it is getting really tiring when the same people suddenly become thin skinned.
For years we have been listening "fuck your feelings" coming from the right.
"Fuck Your Feelings" was strongly and rapidly adopted as a slogan by Trump campaigners in 2019. Prior to that it wasn't strongly used in a political context, instead used nonpartisanly as disparagement of ones opinions in general. It didn't come "from the left".
Democrats have a real problem with saying true but demeaning things that you have to discuss when coming up with strategy, out loud in public.
Hillary’s “deplorables” thing was maybe the most prominent example. Her point was that democrats who think that all republicans are committed to evil positions we can’t compromise with or entertain isn’t correct! Only about a third of them are, according to the data. The rest could maybe be reached or worked-with!
This is true shit you say in blunt terms in a strategy meeting or nerdy discussion groups, not in public, because poli sci is just full of demeaning stuff about voters, because they are stupid and often evil and if you study democracy soberly that’s what you’ll find, and you have to grapple with it to act effectively, but you don’t say it in public because most voters also don’t know that stuff because they’re not poli sci nerds. She, and/or her speech writers, had been around strategists and wonks too much.
[edit] on the other hand, one wonders how much this really matters when Trump wins while saying worse things about all kinds of folks. The way the media approach and characterize and amplify (or don’t) the messages may matter more than what’s actually said.
I find complaining about basked of deplorables coming from the conservative side to be the height of hypocrisy. The same people compete with each other who will be more insulting.
They voted for Trump, twice. They love it when politicians are insulting.
Trumpers are utterly immune to declarations of hypocrisy, as people who refuse to engage in good faith often are. There's basically no point in calling it out.
What you're saying here is "we're better than everyone else and everyone else disagrees with my positions because they envy how awesome we are".