Looking for a succinct primer for those politically disengaged folks who are tuning out because "both sides have gotten so mean". Obviously the contradictions are heightening but how do you ease in a materialist perspective when someone is already so exhausted by "bias"
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Nailed it, it's important to remind people that it is almost completely one-sided. Republicans hate democrats way more than democrats hate republicans. Part of the reason why is that Republicans love to prey on easy targets, and democrats have embraced their ineffectual meekness as somehow a good thing.
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:maybe-later-honey: We're turning the other cheek
Showing the world how strong you are by simply acting weak: this is the 69th form of liberalism. :mao-shining:
Our democracy needs a strong and healthy Republican party :good-morning:
"learned helplessness" :matt-jokerfied:
If you're at the stage where you can see that the right hates humanity, but can't bring yourself to utterly reject everything they stand for, what does that say about your own love for humanity? This step is scary because it means confronting the fact that your own party stands for a lot of the same hateful things, and the only real option is to also reject them and their platform of compromise and appeasement.
Part of my break with liberalism was realizing I wasn't polarized enough lol
There is little difference between D and R in Washington. They both know they're on the same side: against us. Thus the RINOs on one and corporate Democrats on the other. Both despise their voters and yet keep getting elected because they have basically merged with the mainstream media.