Good piece and I think as the campaign promises start to fall away the writer's tribe will become more and more vicious. (minimum wage just quietly went away and I feel in my bones that the impeachment will not deliver its desired retribution. Just a waste of time... A telling point is how she characterized AOC's histrionics. We're a step away from a phone app where you can tag the locations of trump supporters with a big red T so as to further deepen the divide... At least the writer is honest about the bs call for unity and reconciliation. Thanks for this!
They say naming the problem is the first step to even attempting to fix it. I don't find that pessimistic at all, although it can be disheartening how this happened in the first place.
Excellent! And a good word of caution to myself. Not to fall into victimhood, of any sort. As a member of "Team Red", I can see this happening on the team, and if I'm honest, need to continue to strive to avoid it - and petition others to do the same. Holly, I love your last reference. Yes! We DID make it to the moon. And it was extraordinary. To say it isn't so, or that its importance is negated because of other imperfections in our society (then, and even more confusingly, now) is simply mind-boggling to me. To me, it's something we can point to and say, "If we can do THIS... imagine what else we could do when we work together." As for the author of the article... the neighbor upon whom good was heaped-upon; I'm sorry for your confusion. It must be exhausting to live in fear and misery all of the time. But thank you... you reminded me how important it is to be a good neighbor.... all of the time - to everyone. "Love your neighbor", isn't just a nice idea. It's a way of life. One you have to choose.
Nailed the tribal/team dynamic. Rather than going through and pointing out everything I agree with (which is almost everything), I'll add something that I think is a related phenomenon.
The LAT piece was a perfect example of people's increasing inability to see others as individuals. We see this all the time on Twitter: two people from the different teams arguing...each ascribing to the other every bad trait and argument of their opponent's "team". The author of the LAT piece clearly knew nothing of the generous neighbor other than "Trump supporter". Was it a yard sign that tipped her off to the evil that lurked next door? A bumper sticker on the truck that plowed her driveway? Yet she saw the neighbor as the personification of all things Trump.
We will never see all the issues on which we may agree, may never discover the common ground, if every individual we interact with is seen as an avatar for all the worst aspects of their team.
Eh, regarding seeing 'violent criminals' prosecuted, I don't want to see any of the January 6 people prosecuted, and if I were on their juries, I'd definitely nullify for them.
Otherwise, yes, all excellent points!
One more issue: I do see many people on the left as owing ME a moral debt for trying to take my guns.
Holly, well done. Catching up on stuff, and this was a real insight. Deeply appreciated, especially calling out victimhood culture on the right, which is something I have (embarrassed now) been particularly prone to.
I have enjoyed becoming familiar with you and your thoughts and comments over the last nearly-year of Dark Horse podcasts! 😉 This is right on. Some thoughts that dovetail, should you want to wade through the process I undertook in the fall....https://medium.com/@tuckinch68/nowhere-to-go-but-up-38d55338bae0?source=friends_link&sk=407fbcbc5c15edd8ae77361dcc0450bd
Good piece and I think as the campaign promises start to fall away the writer's tribe will become more and more vicious. (minimum wage just quietly went away and I feel in my bones that the impeachment will not deliver its desired retribution. Just a waste of time... A telling point is how she characterized AOC's histrionics. We're a step away from a phone app where you can tag the locations of trump supporters with a big red T so as to further deepen the divide... At least the writer is honest about the bs call for unity and reconciliation. Thanks for this!
They say naming the problem is the first step to even attempting to fix it. I don't find that pessimistic at all, although it can be disheartening how this happened in the first place.
Excellent! And a good word of caution to myself. Not to fall into victimhood, of any sort. As a member of "Team Red", I can see this happening on the team, and if I'm honest, need to continue to strive to avoid it - and petition others to do the same. Holly, I love your last reference. Yes! We DID make it to the moon. And it was extraordinary. To say it isn't so, or that its importance is negated because of other imperfections in our society (then, and even more confusingly, now) is simply mind-boggling to me. To me, it's something we can point to and say, "If we can do THIS... imagine what else we could do when we work together." As for the author of the article... the neighbor upon whom good was heaped-upon; I'm sorry for your confusion. It must be exhausting to live in fear and misery all of the time. But thank you... you reminded me how important it is to be a good neighbor.... all of the time - to everyone. "Love your neighbor", isn't just a nice idea. It's a way of life. One you have to choose.
Nailed the tribal/team dynamic. Rather than going through and pointing out everything I agree with (which is almost everything), I'll add something that I think is a related phenomenon.
The LAT piece was a perfect example of people's increasing inability to see others as individuals. We see this all the time on Twitter: two people from the different teams arguing...each ascribing to the other every bad trait and argument of their opponent's "team". The author of the LAT piece clearly knew nothing of the generous neighbor other than "Trump supporter". Was it a yard sign that tipped her off to the evil that lurked next door? A bumper sticker on the truck that plowed her driveway? Yet she saw the neighbor as the personification of all things Trump.
We will never see all the issues on which we may agree, may never discover the common ground, if every individual we interact with is seen as an avatar for all the worst aspects of their team.
Eh, regarding seeing 'violent criminals' prosecuted, I don't want to see any of the January 6 people prosecuted, and if I were on their juries, I'd definitely nullify for them.
Otherwise, yes, all excellent points!
One more issue: I do see many people on the left as owing ME a moral debt for trying to take my guns.
Holly, well done. Catching up on stuff, and this was a real insight. Deeply appreciated, especially calling out victimhood culture on the right, which is something I have (embarrassed now) been particularly prone to.