It's frustrating watching this back and forth of who gets to be more offended of the words the other has to say.
Reasonable discussion is dead. It simply doesn't exist anymore. I used to try. It gets nothing but either hatred returned, or cowardly grudging partial admittance of a point that gets forgotten as soon as they're back in their echo chambers. It's impossible to have a discussion when everyone believes they're 100% right beyond any form of doubt and can find people who will back them up on that no matter how crazy their opinion is. Again, I'll refer you to
the Flat Earthers. They exist simply because they're a group and they back each other up against any outside criticism.
That goes for everyone as well. Right, left, even outspoken centrists. Everyone has their own cult, everyone believes their own facts. Everyone has cherry picked selective bits of evidence to back them up. People may be correct on individual issues, but nobody has an accurate picture of the whole and I simply don't think we'll ever reach that as a country, given how big, how diverse, and isolated everyone and everything is.
But saying that I have to admit I might be wrong or else labelled as a hypocrite, so maybe I'm just a pessimist.
Back to "actual politics".
Matt Gaetz, everyone's favorite Northwest Florida Trumpette seen cavorting with the Proud Boys.Not really anything surprising, not really anything important on a nationwide stage. But kind of disturbing none the less.