A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans.
“Votes have consequences,” he was told, with many comments from Twitter/X users relishing the notion that another MAGA voter was suffering because of their political choice. The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship.
Can you stop assuming you already know that I’m wrong for a moment to honestly consider my position on it’s own terms?
I’m not saying we should soften our position politically, or walk back from our values, to be more appealing to them.
What I’m saying is that mercilessly dunking on conservatives for our own amusement is counter-productive. It calcifies their beliefs and drives them further to the right. We should, instead, take the opportunity to show them a moment of human empathy so that we can widen their perspectives. Or, at the very least, quietly enjoy the schadenfreude, without feeling the need to get a needless “told ya so” moment.
Democrats have spent decades coddling these dickheads while being openly hostile to their own left flank, and you’re saying they haven’t done that enough.
I’m explicitly not saying that. Please re-read my comment and try again.
Yes, the poor innocent trump voters deserve an umpteenth chance and fuck the left. Again.
I am further left than you are. I am advocating from a leftist position. I’m not saying to give anyone any kind of chance, all I’m saying is that acting hatefully towards hateful people will only makes them more extreme in their positions.
As leftists, we need to choose an alternative to hate if we want to defeat it.
Get the center to quit acting hatefully to the left first then.
I defend leftist positions against liberals, centrists and right-wingers literally all the time.
To begin with, the whole democrats/republicans thing is kinda bullshit to begin with. There are only two sides that matter: the working class, and the ruling class. Unless you are able to survive entirely from profits of businesses/rental income, you are working class.
The entire purpose of political parties is to divide the working class. They are bullshit. None of the parties represent your interests, they all represent the interests of the ruling class.
The ruling class are your true enemies, and the members of the working class they manipulate and gaslight into fighting for them are not. We need those people to realize their true enemy if we want to win.
The message the left is getting is “fuck you, we’re going to kiss this bigot’s ass because we would rather him have his way and murder your friends than ever do anything you want.”
Can you explain for how showing compassion for someone means you have to kiss their ass? You keep putting words in my mouth because you want to argue with me. At this point I am beginning to wonder if you’re a fascist just pretending not to understand this point to waste my time.
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