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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I think you're right, but there is a kind of reaction going on the right's tribalism, which is that there are a whole lot of people just giving the right wingers a wide berth. Crossing the street when they see them. More true since the rise of Trump. And the right is reacting strongly to this, but doing everything they can at the same time to earn the reaction.
So there is a whole branch of my family who live in the district where the Congressman got hauled in for insider trading today. Some of them are getting ready to cast their first votes in many years for Democrats.
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I don't disagree that people are reacting to conservatives, but it's not right to label as "tribalism" any reaction to conservatives. There is a fundamental asymmetry that Sebby willfully ignores.
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