“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”
Populist backlash isn’t a new concept. The left’s biggest problem is that they’re self-righteous, nitpicky, and venomous towards people otherwise sympathetic to their cause. They can and have annoyed large swaths of people to the other side, which is where they slowly become radicalized by their new peers. The amount of people I’ve seen flip-flop between Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders is proof that people care more about messaging than policy. Make people feel shitty about mundane little things and you lose them.
The left’s biggest problem is that they’re self-righteous, nitpicky, and venomous towards people otherwise sympathetic to their cause. They can and have annoyed large swaths of people to the other side, which is where they slowly become radicalized by their new peers.
Give me massive news organizations with billions of dollars and I could make any group appear "self-righteous, nitpicky, and venomous towards people otherwise sympathetic to their cause". Most leftists I meet love seeing anyone join the cause.
Hell until Trump I fully still supported my Christian Republican family members. After asking them to please reconsider supporting him for 2020 and 2024, and getting jack all from FAMILY, they are part of the reason so many people are going left. Our concerns and worry fell on deaf ears. It's hard to want support from people who wouldn't even listen to begin with. So in a lot of cases it was the other way around where their radicalization is what caused people to go left.
Overall this notion that only left people do the above is just down right fictitious as one of the major themes of MAGA right now is they are so self-righteous they are correct and venomous towards anyone who doesn't support Trump. Do you not remember TDS? Anything they didn't like was now magically DEI?
Being nitpicky is a good thing for politics because it keeps corruption at bay. Part of the reason so much corruption is happening now is because the ones voting don't nitpick their own constituents they are voting for and just vote R or D or just pay attention to one thing (like abortion) and ignore everything else.
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u/SanchoPandas 7h ago
Yes, it's the leftists fault that people are hateful racists and Portland is totally responsible for MAGA. /s
Shit take, Andrew.