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🇺🇸 Discussion: The DEMOCRATIC P - Part 3

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The amount of absolute hate, complete intolerance, and total acceptance of even the craziest of lies in even people who I know were once the total opposite leads me to think there's not a lot of hope left for the short term. Dems may squeak out a few wins here or there, but this hate has taken hold rapidly around the people of the US, and its set its roots deep. Tolerance or civility produces a very visceral reaction in people I've tried to talk to, people that I've known for decade and who once taught me about tolerance and compassion.

I truly have no idea how we come back from this. You might get some margin votes to switch some things in the midterms, but the kind of hate that's being blasted full force at people now, on TV and all across social media, it's radicalizing people to a nightmarish degree. How does that get reversed? The power behind that is going to settle in and increase its efforts to keep power, which is going to make reversing it even harder than it is now. And how does that get reversed? People so sure of their hate towards others that they celebrate it now...that's not something that goes away quickly. And are we even sure that in 4 years we're going to be allowed the kinds of transparent, un-meddled elections to the degree we've had in the past?

I want to be wrong, I want to believe our better world is going to come back after this and people I used to love will become decent, tolerant, compassionate people again. But that would take changes on such huge levels now that I don't know if I will see in the remainder of my lifetime. Calling out how things are unfair or mean and whining about it on TV certainly isn't going to fix anything. That requires actual concepts of right and wrong to still be a thing. I'm not sure it is, because most people just shrug, don't care, and say yeah, but whatabout (tm) this other thing the other side did that was way worse?

If I'm wrong, tell me how. I would love nothing more than to be completely wrong about what's going on in the US.
Nope. I feel the same way. I keep thinking, someone will step in and stop this, right? And then they DON'T! It is so bewildering to me that people I know are actually praising Trump right now. I can only guess that the worst side effects just haven't touched them yet in a meaningful way yet. They look at me like I'm over reacting to what's going on. Just the fact that our reactions are so far apart is making me lose hope for my country. :(
 
Nope. I feel the same way. I keep thinking, someone will step in and stop this, right? And then they DON'T! It is so bewildering to me that people I know are actually praising Trump right now. I can only guess that the worst side effects just haven't touched them yet in a meaningful way yet. They look at me like I'm over reacting to what's going on. Just the fact that our reactions are so far apart is making me lose hope for my country. :(
And everything is about finally going "Them" who did this to "Us", and how "They" started it by attacking "Us" for being (insert racist, homophobic, intolerant, whatever else they are quadrupling down on), and how "We" are going to make "Them" pay/suffer for it. All this talk I keep overhearing is coming wildly militaristic and combative. I keep hearing people use war in their terminology. "Our time has come" and we're not backing down now! "If it's a war 'They' want, it's a war 'They've' got!"

It's all very, very scary language, and it's so pervasive and taking root in people that have never spoken this way that I don't know how temperatures are going to cool down enough for sense to come back. It's like not only can't people try to reason for empathy, tolerance and understanding, but those very ideals of the "woke radical left" have been made "the enemy (of the people, where did that come from I wonder)".

What's especially painful is how I used to believe people were generally good and that it would take so much to have this kind of effect. I never realized just how fast and easy it actually would turn out to be.
 
And everything is about finally going "Them" who did this to "Us", and how "They" started it by attacking "Us" for being (insert racist, homophobic, intolerant, whatever else they are quadrupling down on), and how "We" are going to make "Them" pay/suffer for it. All this talk I keep overhearing is coming wildly militaristic and combative. I keep hearing people use war in their terminology. "Our time has come" and we're not backing down now! "If it's a war 'They' want, it's a war 'They've' got!"

It's all very, very scary language, and it's so pervasive and taking root in people that have never spoken this way that I don't know how temperatures are going to cool down enough for sense to come back. It's like not only can't people try to reason for empathy, tolerance and understanding, but those very ideals of the "woke radical left" have been made "the enemy (of the people, where did that come from I wonder)".

What's especially painful is how I used to believe people were generally good and that it would take so much to have this kind of effect. I never realized just how fast and easy it actually would turn out to be.
I sometimes think social media is to blame. Online people could be cruel with no consequences and I think that aggressive attitude is bleeding out into the real world. Groups of angry people who had always been hidden in chat rooms are now coming out boldly and becoming accepted now as mainstream. It is scary. Outspoken people who claim to be Christian are now saying that Jesus' ideas of kindness and caring and mercy are too "woke". It's appalling. Maybe we've always been this way, but it's only been the last decade that it's become so blatant.:(
 
I sometimes think social media is to blame. Online people could be cruel with no consequences and I think that aggressive attitude is bleeding out into the real world. Groups of angry people who had always been hidden in chat rooms are now coming out boldly and becoming accepted now as mainstream. It is scary. Outspoken people who claim to be Christian are now saying that Jesus' ideas of kindness and caring and mercy are too "woke". It's appalling. Maybe we've always been this way, but it's only been the last decade that it's become so blatant.:(

I'd definitely just nuke Social Media with an EMP. Keep online interactions to message boards like this. I think we have gotten collectively dumber as a society.
 

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