• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    What mass movement do you think she’s joining? She’s doing the “Welcome to Le Resistance” grift that you saw countless times during the Trump era. Give her a year to show any kind of actual repentance before you assume she’s the one moral K-hiver, who mind you ran against providing people healthcare during a pandemic. Right now she’s only written a puff piece about how she’s the cleanest of the wehrmacht and I guarantee this judas goat is going to land just fine somewhere just as evil as her last job. This is as cynical a move as everything before it.

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      5 months ago

      I’m talking about liberals in general. For those of us in the U.S., there’s no conceivable path to a mass movement that doesn’t involve bringing millions of them around to our side. This means learning how they think is important, as is giving them a path to leave the Democratic Party and move left.

      Most libs believe their own bullshit – it’s West Wing brain, we talk about it all the time. They aren’t cheering on horrors only to cynically cry about them when they think it’s appropriate; they really believe the shit they see on CNN or read in the Atlantic and have the object permanence of people comfortable enough to consume politics like they do sports. They don’t scoff at evidence of horrors because they support those horrors; they reject it because it deeply challenges the fundamental tenets of their worldview (i.e., that the U.S. is a good country). This is dishonest and cowardly – they’re libs, after all – but it’s not knowing exactly how the sausage is made and then perpetually lying about what they think of it, which is what you seem to think is going on here. My point is that this misunderstands how libs usually think.