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- Because we’re stupid, we’re exploitable.
- Because we’re stupid, we build bombs and send them to CNN — as if that could make anything better.
- Because we’re stupid, we go to rallies in lame red hats and bring our children.
- Because we’re stupid, we’re politically correct.
- American politics: trying to bake a delicious cake with putrid ingredients.
- The American left: mostly college students who think it’s cool.
- The American left: humorless and self-righteous.
- The American right: entirely ignorant.
- The American right: people who have never left their small town + the super-wealthy.
- Midterms: certain to be disappointing because congressional elections can’t make our lives more meaningful, restore our environment, or create more understanding between people.
- Politics, like antibiotics, are overprescribed. Soon, we won’t be able to fight off even the most benign diseases.
- From The Atlantic:
Progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated — and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African-American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are. With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives, progressive activists are the most racially homogeneous group in the country.
