ObjectivityIncarnate

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  • They seem to, at best, not care enough about child molestation to stop supporting their political ‘team’.

    Many, many people are single-issue voters. As one example, if someone genuinely believes that abortion is equivalent to murder, it can be very difficult for them to justify voting against a pro-life candidate, even if they agree with them on nothing else. It’s been found that one’s views on abortion (in either direction) will trump (pardon the pun) everything else for a whopping THIRD of all voters.

    Because of the way our voting system works, and the fact that there are only two candidates, it’s very inaccurate overall to equivocate a vote for a candidate to a vote for a specific X that said candidate did or endorsed, etc. The same kinds of rhetorical ‘games’ are played with legislation. A bill has X provisions in it, one of them is a dealbreaker for congressperson Y, so they vote against it, and later, that person is criticized by their opponents for “voting against” any/all of the other X-1 provisions.

    I know it’s easier and takes a lot less brainpower to just assume that everyone who votes for the Other Candidate is emphatically supportive of the worst thing that person ever did, but that just isn’t the reality, and only adds to the polarization that is deteriorating political discourse in the present day.

    There is no shortage of real things to criticize—there is no justification for these absurd generalizations of massive swaths of citizens.



  • Actually thinking that there are OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION people in the US who think FAVORABLY of child molestation is deep, deep brain rot. You’ve dived to a seriously dangerous depth of radicalized dehumanization. And dehumanization kicks the door to atrocity wide open.

    You’re literally on the same ideological level as the Pizzagate-rs right now, do you really not realize that?

    Do you feel like you need someone to be THAT evil for you to justify opposing them?