Politics should be ugly,

 Politics should be ugly, because elections and policy debates are proxies for civil war.

The desire for cordial politics is, in effect, the desire for someone to shut up, give up, and give in. The most affable bickering is still bickering, and it’s the bickering that people complain most about.

The entire PC-SJW-CRT project is couched in “politeness.” HA! Yeah, polite in the way one is polite to goons enforcing a protection racket. “Respect my pronouns or I’ll rain unholy hell upon your house! What? You got a problem with COMMON DECENCY!?!?”

When politics ceases to be an outlet for frustrations, at the same time that politics takes over EVERYTHING—that is, all other outlets—that’s a problem.

Either the decorum crowd is too dumb to recognize this, or they’re not as opposed to physical violence as they claim.

The problem with Hanlon’s Razor is that attribution has no bearing on outcomes. Worse, most people would rather be thought of as malicious than stupid.

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  1. ArgentGaleJune 4, 2021 at 5:19 PM

    That sums it all up perfectly. It's like they think they're running a Xanatos Gambit with this constant browbeating, cancel culture, and constantly bringing their institutional power to bear against the dissidents and apostates. If they get absolute submission from a broken populace, Mission Accomplished. If someone finally snaps in such a way that validates their narratives then it'll prove to the public that they were 100% right about those Evil Reich Wingers and thus they'll join in on purging the unclean, leading to Mission Accomplished. Or at the very least they'll knock America off its superpower pedestal and clear the way for a more enlightened superpower like China. That none of these are likely to go the way they think it will doesn't even occur to them, though admittedly I'm still not so sure that most people won't choose submission over resistance. Either way I'm just tired of this crap.

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