Why? What difference would it make? If “grab ‘em by the pussy” didn’t change anyone’s mind, I seriously doubt talking about it more will change anything.
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Part of me agrees. But I feel like the point of the article is to say people should care. That nihilism sometimes triggers my depression.
I think back to who I was a decade ago, and I've grown as a person because people cared and told me I should care and explained why my views needed to improve. It takes a lot, and maybe a lot of people in the US won't give a shit about women and how to believe them, but maybe it changes a few people. Maybe they read Daniel's account and are horrified.
All I can do is hope. Or I'll be more depressed.
Because it's an objective truth. We should talk about politics more, and people who support misogyny and bigotry should be made to feel bad about it. If it is impolite to discuss politics, the only voices you hear will be the impolite. It's not impolite to be intolerant of hatred and oppression. That's a false equivalence sold by the oppressors.
Trump won’t be made to feel bad about any of his actions. He’ll never take responsibility for anything he’s done. He’s a relentless narcissist. The best you can hope for is to see him so thoroughly defeated that he gives up and walks away from public life (or gets locked up for a while).
Otherwise he’ll never stop blaming others and playing the victim.
I don't expect Trump, or most conservative leaders to ever feel bad about what horrible people they are. You don't get to that position with a functioning conscience.
But reasonable people don't talk politics, so it creates the illusion of conservative consensus.
This election is going to be won at the margins. Tens of thousands of voters in a few states is all that matters.
Do we though? I think it's best for everyone if we talk about him a lot less. We all know he's a piece of shit in every single way, and that he's so desperate for attention he will say shocking things at every opportunity. We're fools for continuing to be shocked. It should be expected by now.
We been talking about it for years though?
To be fair, the author says “more,” not just that we need to talk about it
Idk his supporter like it, weirdly the women like it more. Or at least they are willing to say it out loud.