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Patrick | Complex Simplicity's avatar

If screaming is what you want to do, go at it. Scream your lungs out, but don’t expect it to change much.

The truth is, these people want the lie. They’ve chosen it. They wear it like armor. They need it to be true—because if it’s not, if Trump is what he so obviously is, then everything they stood for, everything they voted for, everything they cheered becomes indefensible.

They’d rather torch the country than face that.

You’re right that the uninformed still matter. You’re right that we need to reach them. But yelling at a machine that runs on delusion won’t bring it down. It just feeds the noise.

So if screaming helps you stay sane, do it. But know who you're screaming for.

And know what it won’t fix.

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