Why would I feel embarrassed for sincerely held belief? Billions of people worldwide don’t feel embarrassed for believing some Jewish socialist walked on water and raised himself from the dead 2,000 years ago.
@Ebalosus
I’m in the middle on this.On the one hand, I don’t mean to downplay the seriousness of what happened on the 6th. Storming the seat of government isn’t beanbag, and I’m not a free speech absolutist. If QAnons and channers get banned from Twitter, it’s no great loss, and the same journalists I often respect for their lack of hysteria are now descending into a different form of it out of fear of government and corporate overreach. Which could be a problem in the future, but we’re not there yet. At some point or another, you have to hit the mute button to have productive conversations.That being said, Americans, as a whole, are not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to politicians. Horrifying as the Capitol riot may have been for them, they’re still in power. There was never any chance that the uprising would succeed. The Capitol getting stormed is not worse than a small business getting burned down during a riot, as I’ve seen people claim (I don’t actually believe the BLM protests had many riots anyway, but that’s beside the point).Why would I feel embarrassed for sincerely held belief? Billions of people worldwide don’t feel embarrassed for believing some Jewish socialist walked on water and raised himself from the dead 2,000 years ago.This why pundits who constantly bemoan the “post-truth society” irk me. The progressives that I see are not opposed to all unfalsifiable beliefs. They’re willing to tolerate mainstream religions or New Age eccentricities. New Atheists like Richard Dawkins are viewed nowadays as outdated embarrassments scarcely better than the Religious Right. Concerns over strict factuality are not why QAnon believers or other conspiracy theorists are so feared by the center and the left.
If QAnons and channers get banned from Twitter, it’s no great loss, and the same journalists I often respect for their lack of hysteria are now descending into a different form of it out of fear of government and corporate overreach. Which could be a problem in the future, but we’re not there yet.
This happened in 2011 when Republicans riding a wave of lies and racism took the House and the Senate. Mitch McConnell then refused to pass any bill that he did not like causing congress to grind to a halt.
If you think that it’s only republican voters susceptible to populist BS, then you’re a moron. Did the Obama presidency slip your mind? Remember when he had the house, senate, and whitehouse, yet didn’t implement any of his big-ticket items? Trump’s no better, because he did the same in his position as well.
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