I just need a place to rant...
I hold a few "enlightened centrist" types in high regard, and the opinions I always hear from them are "Yeah, Trump is a lunatic (butsoisbiden™), but the rest of the Republican party is fine." While Trump is openly planning to replace the entire RNC chair with virtually zero pushback.
What the fuck am I missing here?
The example in the meme is rage-baity, but it's not wrong when these people are being willingly ignorant at best.
If anyone thinks Trump doesn't pull some shit in office, and either him or his replacement (due to age/health, not conspiracy) don't try to hold on to power by even less democratic means than we already have... You're not paying attention. The dude has told us this is what he's going to do.
Yeah, the governments got problems... But handing the keys to a man that has proven time and time again that he has no regard for the will of the people... Shit's bad, but I -promise you- it isn't that bad.
As far as the trials being political... Yeah, they are. But the crimes were real. And how can we demand our politicians be bound by the law, but protest the first time one actually gets prosecuted?
This is high profile, and millions are watching. Set the precedent. And -we- have to create a culture of holding them accountable after this.
Genuinely asking though... What am I missing?
The left let's throw more money at the problem.
The right let's take money away from people and then try and bully people out of being the problem.
I just want to say that I watched John Oliver today talk about those messaging scams that start with, "Hey Elaine, it's Mary. Are we still on for golf?"
And I then found out that Americans have lost around 3 billion dollars to that scam.
My first thought was, "those people shouldn't be allowed to vote."
The only time I think I ever equate the left and the right is that both sides have gotten increasingly tribalist, which this meme ironically proves.
I guess the other time I equate the left and right is in that both sides are very reluctant to hold their politicians accountable for fear of losing to the other side (which is also a result of that tribalism) - even though the left is more willing to say Biden isn't great, they're still giving the DNC a free pass because Trump is worse, and rather than recognising that this election is really Biden's to lose (he just needs to actually tone down on the things that his voter base doesn't like), they're blaming the conscientious objectors who choose to vote their conscience for not being a part of their tribe.
The enlightened centrist meme is a similar issue, where acknowledging any of this qualifies you as being outside of either tribe and therefore also a liability in this game. If it helps, I'm not American and can't vote in your election anyway, so chill out a bit - I'm not losing your election for you (whichever side you're on).
posts like this are always grating and show a general lack of understanding of how the average right wingee thinks.
I grew up around right wingers but considered myself centrist for a long time. It has nothing to do with the poor. Or more accurately it has everything to do with individuals.
If your life is hard that is a result of you failing to make it better (or so the right wing thinking goes). It's not that you deserve to suffer. It's that life is "equal" suffering for everyone by default and if your current situation sucks it's up to you to figure it out
The system is "fair" insofar as "everyone" can start a business, word hard, and live the "american dream"
This line of thinking is attractive because it calls to the herocomplex all (white male) American's grow up with. There's a problem, go fix it (yourself, by yourself). The suffering of it all is just a matter of existing
By failing to enagage this philosophy directly we fail to address the very real and human concerns that right wingers have. (That is to say their response to the status quo is emotional and thus understandble. Not to say it is justifiable) And as such fail to win people over in a culture war which very well may determine the future of all of us
Posts like this serve nothing but the ego. To truly break your enemy down you need to show them empathy and understanding. Meet them on a human level. Expose yourself to possibly being wrong about someone and their motivations
Republican President: Fuck the black, brown, red, and yellow people. Bomb them.
Democrat President: Fuck the black, brown, red, and yellow people. Bomb them.
Rational person: this is what we are talking about.
Man, that low IQ but high effort required to try to demonize people closest to the center. Lol!
I guess allpeopledomestic terrorists in the center must believe the left and the right are both correct. Wait... both incorrect..? Correct about some things and not others or vice versa..? Wait which is it again?
Tell ya what , why don't you whingers from the fringes just throw some more "high quality memes" at it till you got it all figured out.
Seems like a great use of your time and then both you lefties and righties can bond about their common enemy,peopleSatan's Minions in the center, you know, like the way twins would bond over it.
🤡 show.
