Hot takes on the Democratic frontrunners

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[Flint]

Isn't this just the "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" debate?

Do a majority of individual Americans support some kind of common-sense gun regulation reform because a "blue" media institution is beaming that message into the hive-mind, or because they individually don't want their kids to die in a pool of blood in their algebra classroom?

Trick question-- "red" and "blue" individuals BOTH want gun reform. Red INSTITUTIONS do not. Red INSTITUTIONS don't believe in climate change. Red INSTITUTIONS want tax cuts for the obscenely rich. These are just the low-hanging fruit. If you can name a couple of "blue" ones, does it constitute a disparity?

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Flint

Isn't this just the "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" debate?

Do a majority of individual Americans support some kind of common-sense gun regulation reform because a "blue" media institution is beaming that message into the hive-mind, or because they individually don't want their kids to die in a pool of blood in their algebra classroom?

Trick question-- "red" and "blue" individuals BOTH want gun reform. Red INSTITUTIONS do not. Red INSTITUTIONS don't believe in climate change. Red INSTITUTIONS want tax cuts for the obscenely rich. These are just the low-hanging fruit. If you can name a couple of "blue" ones, does it constitute a disparity?

This is an excellent point. I am neither a dem (except in self-defense, at this particular point in time) nor a republican by nature. I am one of those mixed-market semi-socialist types.

I just have an innate hatred of fascists, probably as a result of being knee high to my great uncles when they talked about the war.

As such, I am perfectly content with the disconnect inherent in believing in the rule of law AND believing in hitting low-rent Nazis with bricks until all the badness leaks out of them.

And I didn't need prompting from the media to be that way. It is my natural, knee-jerk reaction to bastards holding Tiki torches and chanting "The Jews will not replace us."

[Flint]

"Red" cheerleaders want us to believe that "blue" ideas are part of an institution, exactly because this is the opposite of the truth. "Red" has lost the culture war with INDIVIDUAL Americans. The "free-thinking maverick" narrative is just intellectual cosplay. Up there with the "I'm not allowed to say this" clowns.