The amount of comments I've seen from them the past few days about how they're wishing death on a portion of the country because the majority of people who can even vote, voted red is absurd. These are the very same people who can recognize the endless forms of voter disenfranchisement and pretend their part of the party that supports those exact people. Yeah, Texas is a dumbass state in a lot of ways, their power grid situation is really about as Texan as it gets, but it's also a "purple" state and it would be blue if it wasn't for gerrymandering and dozens of ways it screws over minority voters, all by design. How are they so gleeful about wishing folks who live there or other states freezing to death. Who do you think is the ones really suffering right now? The people who can afford to skip town and go stay at a hotel? Or the people putting on 6 different layers and burning every piece of fuel they can find that will burn?
Shit like that makes me have no hope sometimes, it's just so stupid. Have some fucking decency for once in their life. Not everything is red versus blue, they are no different than the reactionaries who crack jokes at California burning or Chicago going another weekend with a ton of shootings. What do they even get out of that shit? A quick laugh, and for what, to feel superior in some way you happen to live in a different part of the country when nothing bad happens? There is no hope for some people like that and they both pretend like they are the good ones cause they either have a BLM flag or a trump flag outside.
US liberalism is a curious mirror image of US evangelicalism — both are driven by a punitive and self-punitive hysterical moralism. "They are responsible for choices they made = They voted GOP lololololololol" "God is watching us" = "History is watching us" "God you sort it out = History will judge them" They are this way because, deep down, they know how incompetent and unpopular they are — so they need all the spite they can master to imagine themselves to be good, to be saved, to be virtuous.
Well said. Feels like i loose my mind every few months seeing takes like I've seen in the last few days. It's so hard for me to feel spiteful about folks suffering. Especially when the system was designed in a way where it is inevitable.
10000% spot on. Moralism serves as both the backbone of whatever our current iteration of US liberalism is and a shield that protects it from having to level with its wildly heinous contradictions. I find myself having to sometimes fight the urge to apply this same type of religious moralism to both libs and conservatives. Kill the lib inside yourself!