yeah, Democrats are complicit in plenty of ways, but not just as complicit 🙄
I can’t tell if the hyperbole is just because the culture is so right wing and the assumption is that they need to shock liberals out of their stupor, but tbh I don’t think liberals even like the Democrats that much, there is plenty of hate and frustration with the Dems coming from liberals these days … at least that’s my experience
Ive noticed a general tendency, which exists to a pretty large degree in every place and group to be fair- but which I’ve noticed even more than usual on lemmy, to treat everything as if it exists on a moral binary. Like there’s only good things and bad things, and all bad things are equally bad things with no room for “X is bad and Y is worse than X, therefore X is better than Y despite both being bad”, and if something is opposed to a bad thing it must be good regardless of whatever else it involves, or conversely, if something apparently opposed to a bad thing is also worthy of criticism, then it must not truly be opposed and is only pretending because they’re both on the side of bad things. I’m sure there’s a word for this kind of thinking, but I’m too sleepy at the moment to recall or look into it.
yeah, Democrats are complicit in plenty of ways, but not just as complicit 🙄
I can’t tell if the hyperbole is just because the culture is so right wing and the assumption is that they need to shock liberals out of their stupor, but tbh I don’t think liberals even like the Democrats that much, there is plenty of hate and frustration with the Dems coming from liberals these days … at least that’s my experience
Ive noticed a general tendency, which exists to a pretty large degree in every place and group to be fair- but which I’ve noticed even more than usual on lemmy, to treat everything as if it exists on a moral binary. Like there’s only good things and bad things, and all bad things are equally bad things with no room for “X is bad and Y is worse than X, therefore X is better than Y despite both being bad”, and if something is opposed to a bad thing it must be good regardless of whatever else it involves, or conversely, if something apparently opposed to a bad thing is also worthy of criticism, then it must not truly be opposed and is only pretending because they’re both on the side of bad things. I’m sure there’s a word for this kind of thinking, but I’m too sleepy at the moment to recall or look into it.
maybe black and white thinking describes what you are talking about?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)