Yeah, those religious fundamentalist ideologies have no place in a modern, civilized society. My issue with the Progressive "tribe" is that it looks at the oth

Yeah, those religious fundamentalist ideologies have no place in a modern, civilized society. My issue with the Progressive "tribe" is that it looks at the other tribes, concludes to some degree correctly that they're a bunch of illiterate fascists, and then declares that anti-capitalist economic leveling and socialist reeducation are the only possible cure. Their small-d democratic credentials are hardly better than those of the guy with the horns. It's been about 15 years of social media, and it's hard not to take it as a gauge of true political sentiment at this point. There aren't a lot of other outlets where we get to hear what people are thinking. But I do go to a lot of bars, both in deep red Oregon country and in ultra-blue Portland, and I'm not actually on social media, so I'm basing this off what I hear from people in person over a drink, not stuff I read on X/Twitter. Simply put: In PDX, I own two cars, I'm evil. In Salem, I'm a Jewish liberal, I'm evil. I've come to the conclusion that they're all idiots.