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Also there are a lot of misinformed voters, who were told that things like P2025 are just jokes to "trigger the left".
Being a misinformed voter is a choice.
They are not poor victims.
They are lazy asshats that wanted to believe obvious but comfortable lies, over having to do 10 minutes of work and dealing with uncomfortable truths.
I'm sick and tired of this handwringing for the poor, willfully ignorant voters who couldnt be bothered to question a single thing, or listen to anything that challenges their preconceived notions.
Not everyone is a terminally online leftist like us. You have to sell politics to the average hillbilly, not the average leftist theory reader.
This is the exact kind of apologia and handwringing that I'm talking about.
Treating them like they're some poor tribals on an isolated island whose only technology is fire and spear making who know not what they do.
They are not.
They are capable of asking questions. They actively choose not to, because they'd rather live in the comfort of the lie, then face the harsh reality of a truth.
Most of them have access to the sum total of human knowledge in their pockets (and in those slim minority of a minority of times when they cant, there are still other ways to access it all), which they refuse to use, because that would mean having to step out of their comfortable little sphere and face uncomfortable truths about the horrific things that they support and cant ever, in a thousand years, handle facing the harsh reality of.
Choosing to be ignorant is not an excuse, or makes them victims, or whatever other stupid bullshit people like you try to label them as.
Why do they want to trigger the left
I also hate the excuse - and I just heard Spicer use it most recently - about how donvict/Republicans are "just" triggering the left.
That is their fucking excuse for so much, and even IF they were "only" triggering the left - why the fuck are supposed adults in government spending any time at all trying to trigger the left? How is that even in the least bit responsible?
Even the excuse, taken at face value, is complete and total bullshit.