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Demonizing people who disagree with you makes them dig in their heels and elect the dangerous candidate and party, in spite of their best interests. Demonizing those people feels satisfying and necessary in the moment, but it ultimately backfires.
The so-called enlightened people can't be counted on to vote. (I say this as one of those so-called enlightened people, albeit not in your country and therefore unable to shift the balance with you.)
Until you folks figure these two things out, this is your new reality.
(I don't think you can save many of the extremists, but you folks could relatively easily stop the extremist factory by deploying more strategic compassion. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.)
The System is held together with baling wire and gum. Never forget that.
You will get through this, but you might need help and to help others along the way. I wish you many goods and cheese.
Fuckin' preach. It's easy to see that it's all shadows on the wall once you're out of the cave. That doesn't make the people chained up inside any less intelligent or human. There's something else keeping them there, and it's hard to be convinced that something you've lived with your entire life is chaining you down.
The "they called me racist, so now I'm going to hate immigrants harder!" memes are both more real and more damaging than anyone, self-included, realized.
This is absolutely right. There's been an arrogance and complacency from moderate parties in the West over the last 20 years, assuming that the electorate will just automatically vote for them regardless. Now they've got to try and get these people back from the extremes, which is going to be harder to do than if they hadn't taken them for granted before.