Quote (Sh00p @ Oct 28 2020 01:03pm)
Wow. You dont have facebook or havent taken a look like literally anywhere on the internet in the past six months? You need a comprehensive datamine of something thats everywhere for the world to see? Those are some strict blinders you have on.
You HAVE Facebook? You're doing something wrong.
Quote (IceMage @ Oct 28 2020 11:03am)
A common defense from Trump defenders is that they don't care about personality or character, they care about policy.
But looking at the Republican party today, it's vastly less serious, more conspiratorial, more dishonest, and more abrasive than it was in 2016. I think some of the left's excesses are a response to this. If Trump gets reaffirmed by the American people, I don't know why any politician going forward on the left or right would try to sell ideas of normalcy, decency, compromise, patriotic unity, etc.
The notion that Trump wouldn't infect the Republican party with his nastiness is no longer valid. It's happened.
So I wonder whether Trump supporters here view this as a welcome development. Do you buy into the notion that politics going forward should be an all out war, with civility, decency, and compromise being silly relics of the past? And for fellow anti-Trumpers, if he wins this election, what lessons should we take from that?
The status quo is/was intolerable. Smiling faces and polite words while the system rots. When people talk wistfully for "the good old days", or say that "we have to go back to normal", they want to go back to a time where the corruption and incompetence was always slightly below the surface, and they could lead contently ignorant lives. Change is required, and unfortunately we can't allow the American left to lead.