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In reply to the discussion: Wow! Biden tweet, minutes ago, with video: There's a difference between the two candidates in this election. [View all]Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)them in he grocery store or in the coffee shop. They speak resolutely of their fantasies and it sounds as if we are living in a television soap opera. The kind where events and emotions are exaggerated for melodramatic effect.
They are not capable of recognizing the difference[/i] between the world they've been hyped into believing in and the reality of their own neighborhood. Its like when people go on and on about how awful "those" homeless people are, or "those" immigrants living down the street are. When the truth is the "immigrant" family happens to include a registered nurse at the local ER and her husband: a lawyer for the town council, while some of the local homeless are displaced veterans who fought in Vietnam, Iraq, and Syria.
The same MAGA speak as if there never was a world in which the US offered a home to anyone yearning to breathe free, where their grandparents fought to oppose the kind of fanatical tyranny on open display at Trump rallies and GOP speeches, where the simple truth was a conversation to be shared rather than a whipping post for the angry entitled white racist.
You cannot offer them reason because their ability to reason has been turned off, replaced by stock phrases and a terrified certainty that we are about to fall of the edge of the earth if one more immigrant arrives in Eagle Pass, TX, or down the block. It is a social disease of pandemic proportions.