Well said. I haven’t felt exactly the same for the average meme, but when views are mischaracterized it can be frustrating. When someone so awful wins a presidential election, it’s time to try to pull apart the stupidity seen on the surface, and make a good faith effort to understand where it came from.
Sometimes it’ll be hopeless, maybe often. Blind hatred isn’t going to be too productive to analyze, but somebody moderately conservative feeling unheard in a “flyover state”… progress could be made there. Sometimes!
Probably. Does anyone really believe all the BS spewed forth by conservative politicians?
During COViD, I did have a bit of a discussion with an anti-vaxxer. He denied believing a lot of the extreme views, although said he had more conservative family that did. For him, it came down to being low risk as someone rural and not wanting the government to tell him what do. He also had a naive look at statistics showing Florida did pretty well without any precautions.
I didn’t have the statistics to give a closer look except to talk about some of the differences. I didn’t get anywhere pointing out that he visited more populated areas and was in Boston right then. I didn’t even get anywhere pointing out that they ran a home daycare.
So, I don’t know, definitely conservative, definitely in denial, definitely not able to look at the bigger picture. He denied extremist views but did seem to accept them as common background.
Well said. I haven’t felt exactly the same for the average meme, but when views are mischaracterized it can be frustrating. When someone so awful wins a presidential election, it’s time to try to pull apart the stupidity seen on the surface, and make a good faith effort to understand where it came from.
Sometimes it’ll be hopeless, maybe often. Blind hatred isn’t going to be too productive to analyze, but somebody moderately conservative feeling unheard in a “flyover state”… progress could be made there. Sometimes!
Probably. Does anyone really believe all the BS spewed forth by conservative politicians?
During COViD, I did have a bit of a discussion with an anti-vaxxer. He denied believing a lot of the extreme views, although said he had more conservative family that did. For him, it came down to being low risk as someone rural and not wanting the government to tell him what do. He also had a naive look at statistics showing Florida did pretty well without any precautions.
I didn’t have the statistics to give a closer look except to talk about some of the differences. I didn’t get anywhere pointing out that he visited more populated areas and was in Boston right then. I didn’t even get anywhere pointing out that they ran a home daycare.
So, I don’t know, definitely conservative, definitely in denial, definitely not able to look at the bigger picture. He denied extremist views but did seem to accept them as common background.