I appreciate Lara B. I first heard her chatting with the boys over at 5th Column. It's wonderful to see someone who identifies as a "progressive advocate" who simultaneously has some commonsense left. The problem with racializing everything, and skipping due process sometimes, and attempting to prevent speech when it's people whose opinions you don't like, is that it's fundamentally authoritarian. I am a free-thinker centrist Dem who voted for Biden, mainly as an anti-Trump vote. But it cracks me up how hard it seems to be for most progressives to grasp that Republicans are reacting to the Left's insanity. That doesn't justify the right. In my book both sides are nuts at this point. My point is that: If the Left keeps lying, and being censorious and anti-Democratic (the lefties loudly admit they think the Constituiton is racist and unnecessary) then of course the Right will keep reacting just as absurdely. It's a classic positive feedback loop. The adults have left the room and we've got anti-abortion and anti-election nuts on the right, and Lefties who insist that men can be pregant. C'mon.
I appreciate Lara B. I first heard her chatting with the boys over at 5th Column. It's wonderful to see someone who identifies as a "progressive advocate" who simultaneously has some commonsense left. The problem with racializing everything, and skipping due process sometimes, and attempting to prevent speech when it's people whose opinions you don't like, is that it's fundamentally authoritarian. I am a free-thinker centrist Dem who voted for Biden, mainly as an anti-Trump vote. But it cracks me up how hard it seems to be for most progressives to grasp that Republicans are reacting to the Left's insanity. That doesn't justify the right. In my book both sides are nuts at this point. My point is that: If the Left keeps lying, and being censorious and anti-Democratic (the lefties loudly admit they think the Constituiton is racist and unnecessary) then of course the Right will keep reacting just as absurdely. It's a classic positive feedback loop. The adults have left the room and we've got anti-abortion and anti-election nuts on the right, and Lefties who insist that men can be pregant. C'mon.
Michael Mohr, "Sincere American Writing"
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/