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John Wallach's avatar

Yes undoubtedly there are reprobates and malignant broken souls like Musk but one of the takeaways from the DNC that I am trying to appreciate is that not everyone who is wrong about politics (ie doesn't agree with me 100% of the time) aren't bad people.

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John Wallach's avatar

Er um, are bad people. Excuse my logic error by realizing how difficult it is for me to admit that I am not perfect.

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Jeffrey Gaines's avatar

I get your point, and I actually had the same takeaway. I have residual anger against Trump voters, but at this point that only gets in everyone's way. They criticized Trup plenty during the DNC, but never criticized his voters, and I think that was smart. And probably the best way forward, for all concerned.

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John Wallach's avatar

So with you on the anger. But also trying to envision how we deradicalize at least some of them back into society. It is going to be very tough because even in the best case of a Democratic landslide there are going to be deadenders that believe Trump had a second election stolen from him (if two elections in a row can be rigged against him how strong is he exactly?!)

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