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This is about mending relationships, not proving who's right.
There just isn't much common ground when people interpret words differently and are voting on completely different issues. The pro-reproductive-rights vote doesn't care that Trump will take care of the immigration issue, just as the crypto bro doesn't particularly care about the EPA or Dept Ed .
that's the same thing.
You can't mend relationships without admission of guilt and some sort of shared values/agreement on behavior
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nah nah nah.
Plenty of that, from vaxx to wokeism, group identity etc.
Link to Stephens' article in NYT today again:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/donald-trump-defeat-democrats.html
The Democratic Party at its best stands for fairness and freedom. But the politics of today’s left is heavy on social engineering according to group identity. It also, increasingly, stands for the forcible imposition of bizarre cultural norms on hundreds of millions of Americans who want to live and let live but don’t like being told how to speak or what to think.
No one is "wrong"
i don't agree, but that's okay.
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i think i might settle for acknowledgement of lesson learned.
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