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It's natural. Maybe people haven't seen it in America before, but this happens all the time. Radicalism begets radical responses over enough of a time line.
by intended 10y ago
It's natural.
Maybe people haven't seen it in America before, but this happens all the time.
Radicalism begets radical responses over enough of a time line.
People in this thread keep feeling disheartened or calling out liberals enclaves - but they completely forget that this is only 3 weeks into Trumps presidency.
As a candidate he was frightening to liberals, in a way no American presidential candidate has been in a long time.
And now he is president. He scares and disturbs people around the world. I can't imagine how liberal groups feel.
On top of that he won and is supported by people who argue that hate speech is free speech.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI don't care how liberal groups feel. I care how they act. And how they are acting is contrary to both liberalism and liberty. (Conservatives are not acting conservatively, either...)
- intended 10y agoIf you don't quite care about how people feel, you lose the position to judge how they act. Human actions ultimately find their motivation in emotions, not in rationality. Besides- that's a belief unmoored from reality. There's a fight going on, and one side has been using techniques to dismantle every institution and source of strength of the other. Youll have reached the point that even facts itself are under question. The period of following ideals died a while back. Either liberals learn from the political play book of the conservatives, or they disappear.