Leo
Well-known member
With the caveats:
- The number of "evil racist mofos" is actually incredibly small, a fraction of a percentage point even by the measurements of Southern Poverty Law Center (far from an unbiased entity)
- There isn't a huge different in "quality" of person between D's and R's, and since people pretty much uniformly vote for their party candidate, we can expect that the vast majority of D's would vote in an equally shitty Dem candidate as Trump (and perhaps already have/do!). That D's superiority complex is a perfect mirror of R's superiority complex.
- Which of course means that deep disdain for Trump supporters on moral grounds is untenable
- That Trump did not really actively court racists in any kind of "open" or "obvious" way, and that the whole "dogwhistle" phenomenon is primarily a media hallucination; see Matrix v Ghostbusters thread
- That "the Matrix" is the ideological prism/prison that ends up with us antagonizing one another, believing the whipped-up hysteria of a clickbait media is true of half the country, and pits us against each other in a false, distracting internal conflict. Which we perpetuate by othering anyone who grew up in a Republican household while pretending to "cultural relativism." The candidates wave their hands and make symbolic gestures, the news pre-interprets these symbolic gestures for their audiences to maximize outrage, and people get super upset/stop speaking to their relatives at Thanksgiving dinner.
we agree to disagree on some of these finer point, silliness aside.