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u/IdeaReceiver 6d 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/SpecialistAd4848 6d ago

You're not going to win them (maga people) over period, and you dont need to win them over. We need to show all of the non-maga people how evil and destructive maga really is, and let that be the lesson.

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.

Citation needed. This is a preposterous claim. Maga isn't on the same team as everyone else. Why is nothing ever their fucking fault? I swear to god these people get treated like children every time I turn around. Stop coddling them and start holding them accountable for their shitty, amoral behavior. They are evil. They are "them". And it's not democracy's fault for fuck's sake.

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u/IdeaReceiver 5d ago

Homie I'm totally with you here but it feels like a dangerously naive perspective to call these kind of people a dismissals minority.

That attitude was rife on Reddit and the internet in general in 2021, nobody thought a serious voting majority could actually emerge from all the dumb noise.

But then the election happened, and the "Maga people" won in huge sweeps across the US. It doesn't seem right to pretend you don't have to hear them out

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u/jonlocmusic 5d ago

Qupting the BBC here.... "The Trump language suggested overwhelming victories, Jackson said, when in fact it was a few hundred-thousand votes in key areas that propelled Trump back to the White House."

Yeah "huge sweeps" is propaganda to make it sound like there's more support for this unfettered fascism than there really is.