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Liz Cheney blocked January 6 scrutiny of Ginni Thomas, book says
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It's bad and worse. People are so worried about keeping the worse party out of office that they refuse to criticize the bad party.
The democrats are literally fine, they're not my ideal party but I'd place them on the good side of the line
The Democrats are not fine.
https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
I mean, I wouldn't have expected that plan to fail either if I was the DNC. Anyways, one counterexample isn't meaningful.
I get it. People are scared and the major parties are juicing that up to their advantage and our disadvantage. The prefrontal executive functioning center is wired to take a back seat to the fight/flight/freeze/fawn instinct of the amygdala for important reasons. But feedback loops happen. I'm scared, too. And watching things go from bad to worse played into that loop, activating anger that fed right back into the loop. Now I'm calm. That doesn't mean I don't experience momentary feelings of fear and/or anger. It means I remind myself that the best decisions aren't made from that plane 6, and I need to think long term. It's going to be painful, either way. There's going to be suffering, either way. There's going to be an event horizon, either way. The point is, can I muster the courage and face it head on, because delaying the inevitable means pain and suffering will be worse the longer the delay. Am I willing to take the brunt now so the generations behind me have hope of shaping a future for themselves that sees benefits of Gen X and Boomers, on the political landscape? Because if I'm not willing to take that chance, the politicians will make sure the coming challenges weigh most heavily on the many, for the least suffering of the few.
In the most non-judgemental way possible, I have literally no idea what you or the person you are responding to are talking about, and it smells totally delusional.
Glad you are living your best life, but there's some weird non-confrontational false equivalence that is extremely goofy here.