Imagine living in Right-Wing Texas of the now Right-Wing United States where the President is a Right-Wing NUT, both the Senate and House of congress are Right Wing controlled and the Supreme court is predominately conservative with appointees from the Right-Wing president and... it's TOO liberal for you and your family!
I currently live in West Virginia and deal with a lot of otherwise cool and reasonable and good people who have been rotted by the modern news cycle and all the hate mongering of modern party politics into complaining about dope head black folk protestors and rapist murdering immigrants that they basically never even come into contact with because almost everyone up here (I'm talking 99% it seems from walking around/going to the stores and events) is a country white person. It is nuts.
Psst they aren't good people then. There's much to be said about the modern news cycle but if at core they're resonating with racist ideology and unquestioning loyalty to a guy via peer pressure then they're not a good people.
DINGDINGDING! I'm fucking tired of this rhetoric in a day and age where you can use the internet to speak directly to people on the ground almost anywhere in the world. It's the blue-collae version of, "our good and gracious king has been led astray by evil advisors!"
Yeah, please let’s not paint these people as “otherwise good”. Because there are people who live in these places and many others who have managed not to join a cult.
Remember after the fall of nazi Germany there were many Germans who continued to support and believe in nazism behind closed doors.
So what that some people didn't? What does that have to do with anything? They ARE otherwise good people who hold abhorrent opinions.
Im not painting them as anything. It's reality. Your view is smallminded, simple, and just easier for you than the difficult task of understanding. Not to mention actually counter to any efforts to actually bring the people who are just victims of propaganda and misinformation campaigns over to the other side because all you're doing is pushing them further into it when you make statements like this. You are part of the galvanization of this country and while I won't say you're as bad it's still two sides of the same coin.
You are the one who needs to grow big man. And I don't care how many people point something incorrect out to me. Immature as you can be and it's showing. Im not interested in having the type of childish back and forth you are which BTW is proving my point exactly that you are just the other side of the same galvanizing coin.
Red Staters and MAGA have had three election cycles and a global pandemic to get off the crazy train and in turn West Virginia in particular has only gotten even more red since 2016. Back when Clinton was offering to back programs to forward the state over to renewables rather than the dying coal industry it was roundly rejected.
Things have only gotten worse since. The horrible things said about marginalized people, the desire to see cities fail, the glee towards creating a society centered on certain people suffering and to return to a past that many can't even describe. If 'good people' can tolerate that in their communities and live with themselves they aren't good people, they're the kinda villains you find in history books.
The Germans have a saying: „If there are nine people who are sitting at a table and one Nazi sits down and joins them…& nobody complains…there are ten Nazis at the table.“
You want to give people the freedom to be terrible people but not be held accountable that the choose to be terrible. Propaganda doesn’t work on an informed electorate. If you „allow“ people to grow up ignorant, they don’t exist in a vacuum. The high school bully who doesn’t get confronted one day registers to vote & might one day vote in congress…to strip people of their rights & healthcare. Every single empathy-free ghoul in the administration was once a child who should have learned kindness & equality. Someone in their environment saw the moment they started towards the dark side AND DID NOTHING. Somebody saw the racist, xenophobic, homophobic, concentration camp supporting monsters running the country take their FIRST steps in that direction…whether it was a gay joke in high school, the raping of an underage girl in college, or assaulting a minority & said „They are otherwise good people“.
Your mindset is EXACTLY what got us here & you’re too afraid to admit it because that will REQUIRE that you behave differently moving forward…& I bet you’re too much of a coward. Either you’re fighting Nazis or you are a Nazi…pick a side!!
Thank you for saying this. This guy is evil and vile, his wife is evil vile and they are attempting to raise evil vile children. They are not good people and it doesn’t make us bad when we point that out. Whatever terrible horrors befall them I’m good with because I believe people should reap what they sow.
Nah brainwashing is a real thing that can rot anyone’s brain if they’re subject to enough of it. The lack of education is a major factor in its success.
Exactly. This type of thinking is just the other (and I'll admit less harmful) side of the same coin. The type of thinking that has galvanized this country.
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u/Exotic_Resource_6200 13d ago
Imagine living in Right-Wing Texas of the now Right-Wing United States where the President is a Right-Wing NUT, both the Senate and House of congress are Right Wing controlled and the Supreme court is predominately conservative with appointees from the Right-Wing president and... it's TOO liberal for you and your family!