Faux left and faux leftist, if you please. As Kara points out, there are plenty of people on the American (real) left who don’t like gender ideology. We are disturbed at organizations we once supported (like the ACLU) now becoming political tools and undermining civil liberties and the Constitution.
Faux left and faux leftist, if you please. As Kara points out, there are plenty of people on the American (real) left who don’t like gender ideology. We are disturbed at organizations we once supported (like the ACLU) now becoming political tools and undermining civil liberties and the Constitution.
Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves liberals without (as many on the right seem to believe) hating America and undermining the Constitution.
Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves conservatives without (as many on the left seem to believe) having hate or bigotry in their heart toward those who are different.
*We all have to understand* that there are many good people who differ politically from us without those political difference meaning that they are enemies, monsters, or Bad Guys.
This is what simplistic news sources (on both political sides) and polarizing social media algorithms (on both political sides) have brought us to. It’s damaging to our nation.
My dad, a lifelong moderate liberal “nice guy” just posted a meme about the importance of voting out “neo-Nazis” -- that’s what he believes now from the content he consumes. Meanwhile conservative family members post about how “Marxists” are ruining things -- that’s what they believe now from the content they consume.
It’s all equally wacky: most people are normal and moderate (liberal moderates, conservative moderates) and are good. Most liberals and conservatives probably agree on about 90-95% of political values. It’s ok and possible to disagree on the rest without being a monster. A few extremists on each side are not representative of that side.
We ALL need to stop the political hyperbole in order to get our country back. It’s unhealthy.
"Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves liberals without (as many on the right seem to believe) hating America and undermining the Constitution,"
"Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves conservatives without (as many on the left seem to believe) having hate or bigotry in their heart toward those who are different."
I was responding to the above remark. When either side merely vilifies the other side and offers no evidence for its assertions that is a tactic used by cultists and zealots to keep its adherents within the group.
Faux left and faux leftist, if you please. As Kara points out, there are plenty of people on the American (real) left who don’t like gender ideology. We are disturbed at organizations we once supported (like the ACLU) now becoming political tools and undermining civil liberties and the Constitution.
Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves liberals without (as many on the right seem to believe) hating America and undermining the Constitution.
Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves conservatives without (as many on the left seem to believe) having hate or bigotry in their heart toward those who are different.
*We all have to understand* that there are many good people who differ politically from us without those political difference meaning that they are enemies, monsters, or Bad Guys.
This is what simplistic news sources (on both political sides) and polarizing social media algorithms (on both political sides) have brought us to. It’s damaging to our nation.
My dad, a lifelong moderate liberal “nice guy” just posted a meme about the importance of voting out “neo-Nazis” -- that’s what he believes now from the content he consumes. Meanwhile conservative family members post about how “Marxists” are ruining things -- that’s what they believe now from the content they consume.
It’s all equally wacky: most people are normal and moderate (liberal moderates, conservative moderates) and are good. Most liberals and conservatives probably agree on about 90-95% of political values. It’s ok and possible to disagree on the rest without being a monster. A few extremists on each side are not representative of that side.
We ALL need to stop the political hyperbole in order to get our country back. It’s unhealthy.
It is a cult tactic to keep people in the fold and to keep them divided by using fear.
This is not a counter-argument to the statement above, just paranoid insinuation.
"Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves liberals without (as many on the right seem to believe) hating America and undermining the Constitution,"
"Plenty of good patriotic Americans consider themselves conservatives without (as many on the left seem to believe) having hate or bigotry in their heart toward those who are different."
I was responding to the above remark. When either side merely vilifies the other side and offers no evidence for its assertions that is a tactic used by cultists and zealots to keep its adherents within the group.
Thank you for clarifying.