• ImInLoveWithLife@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    The majority of my coworkers have casually stated the last week, “I don’t agree with the way this is all happening.”, but still overall support the agenda and hold their line. It’s a combination of ignorance and stupidity. They’re just fascists without even knowing. I live in a deep red area and from what I can gather when I hear talk out in the street, most people are either completely unaware or excited “they’re taking America back.” There is no convincing these people. I have tried for years and years, and when they seem to hear you and begin to digest what you’ve said, they come back the next day more sure than before that Facebook and Fox keep them informed. Many of them can’t tell you what the three branches of government are or how many Senators there are or provide correct answers on the simplest of civics questions.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s truly incomprehensible to most blue/libs that magas and conservatives are genuinely and permanently deranged cultists

      They really believe it’s possible to use words and logic to convince them of things, hence the poster being confused why they aren’t convinced of anything

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        Because our elected officials refuse to talk like this and many constantly stress how bipartisan they try to be with everything. Saying “about 35% of this country are raving psychopaths who can not be compromised with and must be disempowered” is not an easy feel good campaign message but it’s what people need to hear.

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          Anyone who says “reach across the isle” in the primary is an automatic no. These people are not interested in governing. They are openly hostile.

          We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.

          ^ Maybe we should prevent this sort of thing, no?

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          10 hours ago

          Yeah it’s incredibly dangerous to simply ignore or pretend that these are rational people to negotiate with

          They certainly aren’t negotiating with us so I’m not sure when these compromise is king types will realize this is a kill or be killed situation