• purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Plus this is fucking Amerikkka. The mob is always wrong,

    I agree that we shouldn’t do lynch mobs, but it’s a lie told by reactionaries that popular sentiment in America is consistently in favor of reactionary attitudes and ideas. On many important issues, popular sentiment is far to the left of anything the political establishment humors.

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        The truth remains the truth, and no amount of misanthropy changes that. Furthermore, pointing to who gets elected in the US as evidence of what is most popular is not a good methodology:

        popular sentiment is far to the left of anything the political establishment humors.

        I am obviously not saying the majority can do no wrong – I think their attitude towards immigrants is pretty reactionary, and that is significant – but it’s just ridiculous to say in America that a Democrat politician represents what the more left popular views are.