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Shannon Walsh's avatar

Some of them have fallen in the right wing media abyss, too. Material grievances, which are justified, have been routed into tribal anger. For example, I don't believe all the people who claim to care so much about abortion really care about babies. If they did, our policies to help struggling families would look a lot different. Abortion has become a tribal signifier. Also, I'm persuaded that some Trump supporters who have been negatively tagged (say, racist) want to believe that they're the good guys--so they make up/believe stories where he (and they) are the heroes. Regardless, I don't think we get anywhere without trying to understand each other, and both parties have let us all down repeatedly. Maybe the way out is a new party based on labor.

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Tom Halstead's avatar

How not stupid are they? They’ve repeatedly and very successfully affixed blame for middle class collapse on the Democrats, while current circumstances are in fact the fruit of 40+ years of Reagan/Gingrich capitalism and politics. Our entire country is being commodified by the obscenely wealthy, but nothing is more important than owning the libs. Brilliant.

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