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They just moved back into their underground slayers where naysayers are immediately banned.
They will never apologize because they insist they are right and we're wrong. Further they hold the actual left wing voters responsible and claim we are allowing this to happen, we are complicit and we need be held to account. I've been assured that liberals are The Enemy.
For all intents and purposes they need to be placed among the cult of the right. They aren't a logic based lovely. They are not progressives. They are a flavor or authoritarian. They literallly believe their flavor of idealism is the only valid flavor.
They actually remind me of libertarians, where everyone has maximum freedoms for to as they wish so long as they don't use that freedom to form a government. Neither has any doubt. They are 100% they are correct and as any inllectual has told us, that's 100% nonsense.
There is a reason that horseshoe theory is a thing. Though I don't think these people were necessarily on the left, per se, but just maybe more attracted to giving hot takes on nearly everything, politics included, and maybe for a time were associating themselves with leftists.
I can think of at least one person I know who was down for all things crunchy when it came to "health", or getting chakras aligned and going to seminars on the latest guru pitching something about past lives or whatever and kind of generally supported the Green Party (they said, but I'm not sure if they actually voted? I remember asking if they went to the polls, decades ago, and they were like, what?? So I know they didn't vote that time anyway).
And ever since 2015, she has been a full-on, 100% maga zombie. Watching Faux, believing Qanon, all of that shit. She really does think that Hillary and Obama were sex trafficking little kids. She's extended family, but ever since that - she's been cut out of all events, because it's all she wants to talk about. No one can deal with her, not even other Republicans - even if they voted for donvict, too. The irony? She is almost 100% reliant on government handouts.