I am so sick of this narrative that reduces America to conservatives and liberals who are mean to them for no reason, and ignores everyone else, like children the conservatives have eagerly been putting in god damn concentration camps and blacks the police have been shooting with impunity. Those are the things you’re and faulting people for calling “not okay” and waving off as “cerebral beliefs”.
America had segregation within living memory, and no, those attitudes have not disappeared. Pretending it is all purely an artifact of liberals not giving enough respect is a false narrative, one calculated to invite us to ignore all the other groups being hurt right now. It can go to idea hell.
And as it happens it’s one that invites bad strategy too, because you don’t win elections by trying to win over conservatives. You win them by offering something to people who otherwise wouldn’t vote. The more voters inspired to turn out, the less likely Republicans are to win, and you do not get that by peddling to people who are planning to vote Republican until they die.
