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The “both sides are equally bad” brain infection is a powerful meme in the original sense: an idea that self perpetuates like an organism, its only motive is survival, with zero consideration of truth or meaning.. I BOUGHT AIRPLANE WIFI TO WRITE THIS THREAD SO PLS READ IT
Right now the media (mostly) is fighting their natural impulse to both sides this. you can feel them wanting to succumb. They are fighting off the infection with mega doses of anti biotics but the infection WILL win over time.
It’s not just the media that’s infected with the “both sides are equally bad” virus, which obviously is called the B-SAD virus....
Also a lot of independent voters and left wing activists and non-voters have it too. It may be dormant. But The Ds will EVENTUALLY need to make hard, even bad choices to save real humans and when that happens...
the “neolibs are worse than everything in the world” sub virus will be activate and spread, in proportion, I think, to how long B-SAD lasts.
Who gives an eff about these ideas on sunday shows and podcasts. It shouldn’t affect Ds priorities to protect federal workers AND the legislative process, hard as they may be to balance. And to my happy surprise, it isn’t right now.
But if B-SAD sets in and the fever lasts, it could affect storylines and voting behavior in 2020. We don’t need any extra work of keeping our fun n fractious coalition together, especially since...
The only creatures totally immune to the “Both Sides Are Equally Bad” brain infection are GOP politicians and voters. PS to those who only read this 1 tweet, I am calling this infection the #bSAD virus & I have tagged it that you may make it internet famous immediately. PROCEED
For those of you who read the whole thread though, you are a treasure to me and I am forever your friend. That is all.
