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It feels more like a reverse psyop, like “look we are wearing masks now, isn’t this what you wanted”?

As long as the sides keep reducing common ground, the farther away from government for the people, by the people we go.

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Tell me more about how "the sides" are reducing "common ground"?
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Again, let's think of two children fighting over their shares of a cookie. Child A says he should get all of the cookie. Child B says that wouldn't be fair, the cookie should be split evenly, half and half.

The adult in the room decides to promote common ground, and gives 75% of the cookie to A and 25% to B.

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who exactly is the adult in the room supposed to be in this analogy? There _is_ no adult in the room, just the two children.
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The adult in the room here is the moralizing "enlightened centrist" that puts bothsideism in every conversation about politics.
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Just remember that 1984 is fiction and not an instruction manual. Try not to get too authoritarian over demographics (any and all of them).
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I am not so sure people started saying "this is fine"

more like he started 1000 other fires, several each week if not a new one each day to make far worse problems

It's not just the most corrupt administration, it's the most chaos and definitely by design

btw all investigations dropped for the execution of two citizens, I mean that's definitely not fine with anyone, just way too many other problems going on now at the same time

well there's no statute of limitations on murder at least, so 800 more days

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> well there's no statute of limitations on murder at least, so 800 more days

This assumes The Other Side will do anything if they do get into power. My prediction: A milquetoast moderate leads the (D)'s and declares: "In the interest of unity and moving forward, we will not go after anyone in the previous administration. Let us all hold hands and get past this with minimal drama... They have pinkey promised they will never behave this way again when they get to power, and we believe them."

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The Democratic base is way too angry for that to fly this time. If Jeffries tries it he'll be removed as speaker.
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Democratic politicians are the ones that could remove the speaker, not voters.
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Part of the problem is that the justice system is as slow as molasses. They tried to hold him accountable for things he did in his first term and four years wasn’t long enough.
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Eh, owning the supreme court helps a lot. It moves pretty quickly when it needs to protect trump.
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It's wrong when they feel like it infringes on them, it's okay when it empowers and emboldens them to cause harm to others without repercussions.
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