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White Rural Trump Supporters Are a Threat to Democracy
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"mass of progressive politicians" so you want every single person in America to think, act, feel, and vote the same? That doesn't happen anywhere in the world...well, except communist countries of course.
That's not what they said. Progressive is just basically rational. Progressives think differently about things all the time. It isn't really a nailed-down ideology of any sort.
Whereas conservatives are notable for not thinking much about anything at any time. Besides their fears. Having no discernible ideology themselves other than they want what they want. And they need someone to hate and scapegoat.
An liberals are? Why do these articles always attack one side? I live in California, I'm seeing first hand what these extreme liberal views are doing. There's people literally fighting for the right to allow the homeless to use drugs, shoot up heroin, and shit and piss wherever they want... it's ridiculous. And don't get me started on the petty crime that's being ignored..because apparently, according to liberals, we need to completely revamp our criminal and judicial system because people who steal shit shouldn't be going to prison... it's fucking ridiculous.
More so than conservatives? Absolutely. Still not great. Also remember that progressives!=liberals. Some liberals are mildly progressive sure. Not enough of them or progressive enough.
The reason articles tend to attack a specific side pretty regularly. Is because they're abjectly horrible and significantly worse than the next worst group around. Which happens to be liberals. Who are also very shit.
Nah, Saint Ronnie shuttering mental hospitals national wide. Pushing those people out on to the streets untreated. Is literally what caused all of that. But that's blasphemy to say inn'it? You expect the state or police to have the time or funds to police such things. While closing the only, already inadequate system focused on taking care of those people. While voting at every turn to starve state and federal government of funds and resources to actually handle such situations. Irrationally frothing at the mouth about how your parties actions are all the fault of those evil liburuls!
Prison should only be a solution for those that pose an actual threat to society. Petty theft and drug use ain't it. It's pretty inhuman and grotesque the way you treat it as some garbage dump to permanently dispose of people you don't like. Especially irrational when your realize that they'll get out eventually. But that not only is recidivism far too high because prison doesn't actually address any actual problems. It actually trains them to be better criminals.
This is exactly what I was talking about. You're behaving irrational and vindictive. Blaming everyone but yourself for the problems you create and seek to exacerbate as a "conservative". You complain about people complaining about the failures of the system, even as you champion the failed system. Putting it's failures on the group your cult told you to hate. It's 100% bananas. And you refuse to see it.
I'll rag on liberals all day long. I barely have even faint praise to give them sparingly. But my god, conservatives somehow make them seem reasonable.