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mike_c

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11. haven't we had enough social grievance?

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Sun Nov 10, 2024, 01:37 PM

Nov 10

The OP is an actual example of intractable social grievances that match a hypothetical illustration. It goes like this: if you ask MAGAs and their cohorts what they like about America they'll be stumped by the question. Ultimately their obsession with grievances will hijack their attention, and many will answer "Let me tell you why the US sucks, instead."

Somehow we need to move the MAGAs beyond the politics of grievance. It goes without saying that we ourselves need to do the same. It's tough, because at some level politics always aggregate around core grievances, and this is a destructive tendency.

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17 Americans Were Asked What They Don't Believe In Anymore After The Election, And They Have A Lot To Say [View all] orangecrush Nov 10 OP

This is the one that explains how I feel. Autumn Nov 10 #1

I have an ugly feeling orangecrush Nov 10 #2

I agree, and I no longer find the glory or romance in riding this missle into the ground. Maru Kitteh Nov 10 #6

I'm with you. johnnyfins Nov 10 #12

Why am bdamomma Nov 10 #16

Well, the Trump voters won't be happy about how things ended for 1930s Germany... keep_left Nov 10 #15

So are some of us doing bdamomma Nov 10 #3

I admire your enthusiasm orangecrush Nov 10 #4

I mean bdamomma Nov 10 #5

Oh, agreed orangecrush Nov 10 #14

With RFK Jr. heading the FDA, Abolishinist Nov 10 #17

Better yet orangecrush Nov 10 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author Abolishinist Nov 10 #19

Had me going for a minute. This is from the Spurious News Service. Abolishinist Nov 10 #20

"child of the '70s and '80s"? moondust Nov 10 #7

The single earner household was dead by the mid-1970s. valleyrogue Nov 10 #8

Yeah but the good old days weren't great either. Elessar Zappa Nov 10 #9

This myth of the shining city on the hill Voltaire2 Nov 10 #10

haven't we had enough social grievance? mike_c Nov 10 #11

Right now? Grievance works for me. johnnyfins Nov 10 #13

Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Still, I am responsible for my own behavior, no matter what. Hekate Nov 10 #21