Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t...
by zests on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:28PM
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Do you base your opinion of each side off of what you see on the internet?
"On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t...
by eyelidlessness on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:31PM
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Nope I’ve definitely grown up in and road tripped/train tripped red-purple country (edit: and I’m white trash and present male so it’s an easy pass) so I know what people really think. I’ve also been on the receiving end of violence by standing up and confronting them.
Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t...
by geofft on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:57PM
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This is a key point - many folks who are left-leaning grew up in right-leaning areas, have right-leaning extended family, etc. We aren't extrapolating from the internet.
There are a number of structural asymmetries between left and right, and it does no favors to any truth-based cause to assume that left and right are mirrors, as if their names required that.
I guess that’s the other important (and still not political) distinction: one party and its cohort is self-reflective and has an internal corrective feedback loop. That broke down in the other over the last decade, quite notably after a very honest and sincere post-loss retrospective/postmortem.