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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by ng12 on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:59PM (#19823310)
Plenty of people on both sides have "batshit crazy" ideas, except one leans more heavily on mob mentality thanks to the self-righteousness that comes with the unshaken belief that you have the moral highground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMc8pczn-hs

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Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive by CamperBob2 on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:59PM (#19823820)
except one leans more heavily on mob mentality thanks to the self-righteousness that comes with the unshaken belief that you have the moral highground.

Well, Goldwater tried to warn the Republicans about what would happen if they kept sucking up to the evangelicals, and...

Oh, wait, were you talking about Democrats?

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