But your Democrats are doing precisely that. Stand down and let them be. Let them cut their own throats, if that's the case. Then, you will have something to crow about in the midterms But less than 100 days in, it seems like so many sour grapes eaten by sore losers.
I can't answer the question with any authority. I have no training in addiction or psychology.
But I'm inclined to kick them when they're down because they're going to fail downward anyway. Why wait? Civil society is being damaged as this continues, and what is yet to come?
I did fail to include one other category. Stupidity. Dietrich Bonh├╢ffer [1] explores this in the Nazi Germany context. I find it enticing but I also find it a subtle trap we have to be very cautious of, because at a certain point of too many stupid people, it's incompatible with democracy for obvious reasons. And that's the very argument being made by the technofascists: too many stupid people, they can't self-rule, the vastly superior technical oligarchy must take over.
[1] And others, but I'm a bit fixated on this Lutheran pastor because, my anti-religious bias leads me to believe a pastor would be all into supernatural evil explanations - but no, Bonh├╢ffer convincingly describes stupidity as a greater threat to good than evil. He was eventually murdered by the Nazis.
Chris, you are a very astute person to call out that MAGAts are addicted to the drug of victimhood. That's why tRump whines it all the time.
Drug addicts are unsavable until they hit a bottom and asked to be saved.
The question is do we want to push them to the bottom or let them fall on their own?
My choice is to not enable them nor give them oxygen, but I won't trip them.
But your Democrats are doing precisely that. Stand down and let them be. Let them cut their own throats, if that's the case. Then, you will have something to crow about in the midterms But less than 100 days in, it seems like so many sour grapes eaten by sore losers.
Logic escapes you cult members. Bless your heart.
I can't answer the question with any authority. I have no training in addiction or psychology.
But I'm inclined to kick them when they're down because they're going to fail downward anyway. Why wait? Civil society is being damaged as this continues, and what is yet to come?
I did fail to include one other category. Stupidity. Dietrich Bonh├╢ffer [1] explores this in the Nazi Germany context. I find it enticing but I also find it a subtle trap we have to be very cautious of, because at a certain point of too many stupid people, it's incompatible with democracy for obvious reasons. And that's the very argument being made by the technofascists: too many stupid people, they can't self-rule, the vastly superior technical oligarchy must take over.
[1] And others, but I'm a bit fixated on this Lutheran pastor because, my anti-religious bias leads me to believe a pastor would be all into supernatural evil explanations - but no, Bonh├╢ffer convincingly describes stupidity as a greater threat to good than evil. He was eventually murdered by the Nazis.