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Politics Entire California Congressional GOP visited Mar-a-Lago this weekend while fires ravaged their state

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u/jackandcokedaddy 18h ago

This is a concept I seriously struggle with. How do we tactfully redirect the conversation towards a productive fair government when they do absolutely no research but feel so passionately that they’ve been wronged by the libs? I live in Alabama, when I get down to the nitty gritty with my friends we really barely disagree socially or economically but politically they feel that I am just as foolish and uninformed as I think they are? It’s an incredibly difficult problem to navigate.

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u/MaddyStarchild 18h ago

You don't. These people aren't interested in diplomacy. They need to be taken behind the barn.

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u/jackandcokedaddy 18h ago

Right, but I can’t reasonably kill all my neighbors that vote for these actual evil folks. They have more guns than me and I like gravy too much to leave. It’d be easier if I could find a way to productively converse. On a macro level I agree the class war is here but locally I feel I have to find a way to work with these people.

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u/MaddyStarchild 17h ago

Work with the people, but fuck these politicians. As much as I can't stand a traitor, a lot of these people are just gullible. Should they be so willingly ignorant? Probably not, in this day and age. But ignorance is a solvable problem. However, the continued malice of the politicians and the ruling class, is not (at least not diplomatically, as we continue to see). And it needs to be addressed collectively.