#danger | #WhatTheyVotedFor
Just feels as though we are in a dangerous place right now. Time will tell.
Your powers of observation are astonishing:
First you work to make a dangerous place, then you suggest it feels as though we are in a dangerous place.
And, you know, I think the worst thing about conservatives like you is how easily you'll betray your country for the lulz. It's why Republicans are treasonous and liberals believe in human rights: No matter how much better one thinks a mass execution of your ilk would make life, and as much as the short term outlook might feel rosy, it's not so dangerous a time or place that liberals will abandon their commitment to human rights just because conservatives want to call off the United States of America.
Freedom of whatnot is what it is, but advocating against your own country is a profound act any willing conscience undertakes for its own reasons. Your reasons simply aren't good enough, but, y'know, whatever, right?
You know what would be original? If a conservative could actually explain, coherently and in good faith, why conservatives are such terrible human beings.
Meanwhile, there's a reason they're not bothering to try. It doesn't take a genius to understand that
conservative and
good faith simply aren't compatible in these United States; there comes a point at which the repeated demonstrations are unquestionably excessive. But I also think it worth considering former CIA Director Brennan's testimony in the Senate, regarding more serious betrayals of country accused of Trump campaign, transition, and administration officials. People don't necessarily recognize what road they're traveling. And I've long said most people aren't actually evil, but tend to regard their own behavior in an affirmative, useful, validating context.
We might further note, blissful ignorance of self fails to change the observable circumstance that there is a functional difference between acknowledging human frailty and seeking to exploit it. Yeah, we get that we're supposed to believe conservatives don't think they're doing anything wrong, but here's the thing about politics and history:
The tradition is betraying itself, as well. That is to say, in justifying themselves, many traditional blocs betray their own principles. Had I been a Republican the whole time, I would now be devouring the very principles I would have been asserting at the outset. And one of the differences is that while some of it has been obvious the whole time—
e.g., conservative supremacist identity politics—conservatives have in recent years begun dispensing with any pretense to the other. It's no longer about blaming bad seeds, or saying that's not what's going on. It's now something more aking to, "Yeah, and so what?" But, see, that's the thing: That's just preaching to the choir, since conservatives not so much don't care what other people think but, more to the point, are going out of their way to be antisocial in order to cry antisocial crocodile tears about feeling rejected and left behind when people call out their bullshit. Because the defining identity politic at my political outset was the Cold War, and I simply cannot describe the magnitude or even nature of the irony about watching
Republicans—good, patriotic, traditional American conservatives—deliver the country to a Russian strongman.
And in the middle of this, you're just out making up superstitious bullshit that you can't be bothered to explain: Yeah, what's new under the sun?
A statistical majority of the country has been living in a dangerous place for a while, now, but the empowerment majority is frightened of equality so suddenly the world feels dangerous enough to them that, what, they go running to Vladimir fucking Putin for help?
Seriously, Bowser, absolutists should not be lamenting any lack of middle ground.
