Hillary Clinton commented on CNN suggesting that MAGA supporters need “formal deprogramming.” Brings to mind reeducation camps and Communist-style political indoctrination. But there is something about it even more troubling.
It is that the partisan divide has widened to the point where one side sees the other as not just wrong in their political opinions, but mentally and morally ill.
Once you believe that, anything becomes justified to defeat them. And so, we see a more and more vicious, ruthless, and unethical politics that seeks victory by ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
And that is contrary to the spirit of democracy. Democracy requires a broad sense of civic inclusion. Democracy is the “rule of the people.” But if we are at each other’s throats, there is no “the people.” #Kennedy24
1/ My hot take on the Twitter saga:
What we are actually witnessing with Elon's takeover of Twitter is a major schism within the dominant ideology of the modern world:
The Californian Ideology
Let me explain 👇