I've lived in a country where the so-called left wing has been so terrified of their overwhelming loss to a right wing scumbag (Ronald Reagan) that for four decades they've been falling over themselves to show how right wing they can be too, and it hasn't won any right wingers over. It's just emboldened them to be even more right wing.
Donald Trump is not an aberration. He's the culmination of a right wing project decades in the making, and our left has done nothing but pretend that nothing has been happening and that our norms and "common sense" have been A-OK all this time.
It's not ****ing working and pretending that it is is just pushing my country into its own destabilized hellscape. You don't stop this **** with smiles and moderation. That's a ****ing band-aid.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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