• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah and I totally get where they’re coming from. I still understand it’s a bad thing but I do understand it. It’s easy to see all the problems and just want to burn it all down. Thinking that they could do better rebuilding from the ground up. It’s the same mistaken confidence and bravado that makes people anti-vaccination or anti-science. And they will go ape shit on you if you point that out.

    Life just seems easier when you have a clear cut boogyman or enemy. It allows you to justify all sorts of bad behavior. As much as we ridicule and laugh at conservatives because of it. Everyone can fall prey to it.

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      7 months ago

      The sad thing is it’s their disengagement that causes the Republican wins that perpetuate the problem. If Democrats maintained control of the Presidency and Congress for long enough, they’d inevitably shift all the candidates towards progressivism to capture more votes. The youth vote has control, but every new generation is convinced by Republicans and anarchists that they don’t. I had the same problem at 20 years old. It’s not a new game.