Interesting to see one of the resident Trump apologists all but coming right out, and identifying liberals and Democrats as “the enemy within”. I wonder how many problems will even be addressed on a level playing field, level in the sense that we’re all American citizens, we accept each other as fellow citizens, regardless of which side of any political, social, cultural divisiveness? For some strange reason, Trump apologists seem to think the only acceptable outcome is the defeat of America’s public enemy #1: Democrats, and better yet, let them fade away forever, no longer acceptable as “patriots” and “correct-thinking” Americans. Crush them, let it be a single party America! I do wonder at what point these apologists would be willing to holdback in their identification of Democrats and liberals as our nation’s greatest enemy: will they stop short of “re-education camps” like the Chinese have for the Uyghurs? I think we can bet our last buck there are American Trump supporters who would give a thumbs up for death camps. Oh, that won’t happen, I know that, but you can bet some Trump supporters would not stop short of even a “final solution”. Not here, but throughout this country such Americans exist.
Years ago, in response to a request by Joe Bagadonuts, I started a thread looking at psychological differences, even brain structural differences, between liberals and conservatives. I’ve known all along that some of our differences, problably most easily perceived in our culture wars, are due to differences that may have its roots in fundamental differences in how liberals and conservatives see the world at large. Truisms, like liberals are more comfortable with change, conservatives are more attune to threats. Fundamental differences in how one perceives and reacts to the greater world at large. And this must be fundamental in some respect, be endemic within our respective natures(allowances for nature vs. nurture debate), in some sense: we see this right/left split throughout the world, and clearly, we are living at a time where Right leaning mindsets are in the ascendant, and winning elections everywhere.
As far as eggs, bird flu. Bird flu. Better hope it doesn’t mutate in a way that leads to human to human transmission.
