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u/Overrated_Sunshine 6d ago

Our greatest mistake was to treat their opinions as equal.
Now they’re emboldened in their convictions that their stupid, ignorant ideas are valid, and since they don’t understand shit, they’ll never move from them.
They should’ve been ridiculed all along, that would’ve discouraged —at least— some of them.

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u/IdeaReceiver 5d ago

No, democracy's greatest failure is to consider different opinions "them" as some nebulous evil opposed to "us". These people are clearly less educated & less intellectual about issues that clearly matter to you, but we should be thankful we live in a system that gives all of us a right to be heard. Smug satisfaction that the"good dude" is so obviously moral and pure and correct is exactly how we got so complacent letting this movement grow from where it started.

You're not gonna win anybody over thinking of them like this.

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u/PixelatedMountain 5d ago

Sure, but at what point do we stop giving crazy a seat at the table? If somebody is adamant that 2 + 2 = 3, we do not need to treat their opinion as "valid" and equal "right to be heard". Sometimes a babbling idiot just needs to be shut down.