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Hmmmm let's see... Calling them all racist/sexist and stupid didn't work in 2016 or in 2024.... It barely worked in 2020.... Let's keep doing it even more! I'm sure that will end the political divide of this country.
I know that calling all of them them stupid, racist and sexist makes it super easy to avoid having any actual dialogue with them, but it sure as shit isn't going to help help Democrats or progressives gain any ground in the long run.
And before anyone responds with "well we can't/won't have dialogue with fascists" I will preemptively tell you that you are completely missing my point.
Simply because YOU labeled all of them as fascists or you were told by someone else that they were that way doesn't mean it's actually true.
You can't expect to defeat an enemy if you don't understand them or evaluate them correctly.
Sorry you're butthurt by OP pointing out reality. Do you also flip out when someone points out that rain is made up of water?
Pretty concerning that you think that the OP is accurately representing reality.
Also your analogy doesn't really work the way you were hoping because rain isn't pure water. It's actually got a bunch of other things mixed in there too.
Kinda like how not everyone that exists to the right of your particular position is a racist/sexist idiot. I'm sure plenty of them are, but to say that they all are is disingenuous and you know it.
You're right, of course. They're not ALL stupid racists. Much like rain also contains miniscule portions of debris which the water forms droplets around, MAGA also contains a core component of incredibly evil people, and a few run-of-the-mill racists of average intelligence.
A+ for turning the analogy back around to suit your needs. I suspected you would do precisely that.
Unfortunately you're still clearly entirely missing the point of my original comment.
When you lose 2028 and 2032 dont come crying to me.
Why on earth would I ever want to talk to you again?
There's a good reason Trump has won an election twice, and it's because the people he's running against are incapable of the type of introspection you just described. Their supporters, even less so.
It's not leftists that they're trying to lecture.
Good grief.
That fucking text wall of a reply, I don't even know where to start.
I'm the one getting worked up?
I was asleep.
Maybe start by reading it. It's not a "wall of text". It's a few short paragraphs. You just want any excuses to dismiss a different point of view. I think you're a sea-lion troll, possibly one who's paid in rubles ! Regardless, you're absolutely a jerk !
Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings
Oh, I did read it. I'm just not entirely sure what to make of it.
Nah. I think they cheated. Made it harder for people to postal vote. Intimidated people at polling places. Gerrymandered. Musk bought votes. Probably Musk cheated in other ways, since according to Drumpf he's "really good at computers"......
Oh, I have no doubt there were some dirty tricks. But from what I saw, he also had a lot of legitimate support.
I don't disagree.