Paranoid conspiracy-mongering isn’t only a problem on the right. I understand the frustration of supporting a candidate who fails, but tantrum threads like this only encourage the kind of cynicism and paralysis that the writer would claim to be fighting against. https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1248097130671214595
A lot of people with political viewpoints that are leftist by American standards (and I am one of them) find it very frustrating that the majority of the public—and even our own political party!—hold views that are, on the whole, more conservative than our own.
In response, you can adopt a tone of paranoid despondency, like @thrasherxy does in this thread. Or you can acknowledge the necessity of appealing to large groups of voters while making forward progress.
The second of those approaches is less appealing to people who think they hold a monopoly on correct opinions, and whose response to any loss is to insist that the game was rigged. But it’s the approach that end up changing minds, and winning.
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