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  We are much more "zero-sum," both right and left.
The mistake with ending on that note is that, while 'both right and left' are more zero-sum, only the left gives a shit about the ideals in the actual quote.

To drive the point home, the current crop of Republicans wouldn't take kindly to an immigrant SJW college professor like the character in the film preaching to them about liberal values.

Then again, he is Hungarian like Viktor Orbán, so maybe that would get him in the door.

https://npr.org/2025/05/29/nx-s1-5399682/hungary-trump-vikto...



The quote is a call for unity, so I felt it inappropriate to end by attacking my fellow citizens.


If my fellow citizens are tired of liberal democracy, and subjecting the rest of us to something worse, it warrants criticism.

Whether criticism will improve anything, or just annoy people, is another story.

There's not likely to be any 'Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?' moment in the current environment, so God help us all.


You're approach seems very zero-sum: if the other side wins, we lose.

Some things are zero-sum, and maybe American politics has changed in a way that makes it zero-sum. But that's what it is.


The other side won, and, going by your initial praise for the film quote, you lost.

Perhaps our disagreement is whether this generation of Republicans values the quote's ideals or not.




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