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I like how all the right's enemies are two things at once.
Hilary was too old to send an email, while being clever enough to murder hundreds without getting caught.
Obama was lazy, while working tirelessly to destroy the country.
AOC is a bar tender who grew up in fabulous wealth.
Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak
Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
Strong because fascism needs to be a victim, weak because of course "they" are inferior.
And it's a Holy War for them; they have plenty of preachers telling them so.
It’s almost like they’re following a sports team and the only thing that matters is shitting on your ops.
Fuck you Liverpool FC, Manchester until I die. /s
People on the Left don't like the Dems and wish they had a third party.
The GOP has been subsidizing third parties for years.
It's not a 'team sport' it's war.
Trans people are too strong for sports but too weak for the military
except not, the correct way is to randomly choose politicians at the end of each term and force them to live with average income
I'm a member of a small leftwing party which has progressively been more and more trounced in the last couple of election and the thing I've been saying internally for quite a while (since before the collapse started, even) is exactly that the people heading the party are such a socially narrow group with such a limited set of life experiences (thirty-something well off middle class children of well off middle class parents with straight from highschool to university to politics paths) that they're disconnected from the life experience of the overwhelming majority of people out there and don't have experience in an environment with actual concrete competency metrics were you can't just excuse away your failures with some bollocks about the external environment (as they just did in an e-mail to party members after they're recent "worst ever since the party was formed" electoral results).
Oh and from conversations I had with a member of parliament some years ago, they definitely see themselves as an elite within the party itself which knows better than the rest.
Anyways, I know the US is different with its de facto political duopoly, but it's funny this dynamic in politics of thinking bubbles forming from people whose upbringing and life experiences is wholy detached from that of pretty much everybody else coupled with them feeling that they know better than the rest, a feeling entirely built upon them telling each other "you're so right" in one big circle jerk and the mindless adoration of people for whom Politics is just another form of fandom and always adoringly agree to anything the "stars" from "their side" say.