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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe Trump stopped talking about it, so no one was? I don't know, i don't watch the news. What i do watch is you veering further and further towards crazy town- and you were already going that way before you took this hard turn.
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Since Bush's election, this Democracy or ours has been busted.
We're at a bizarre place today where everybody's in Crazytown. You can't even talk about politics with anyone anymore, and I'm not sure you should. Everybody's strident about everything. Everybody's got a grievance. Everybody wants you to agree with them and is upset if you don't. Sure, they'll say they're willing to listen to those who disagree. But that's lip service. They're only listening for the purpose of finding a flaw in what you've said with which to attack you.
You can't even talk about politics as sport anymore. If you criticize someone's party's strategy, you're criticizing its substantive planks.
People are rubbed raw and emotional, and I don;t think many of them understand how much of it is caused by people manipulating them - things like 24 hour news. And we now realize how irrational and tribal people are by nature.
I have learned one thing in the past few years, however. It is probably easier to manipulate educated people than non-educated.
