Republicans really are going to try to pretend things were better this time last year like they think we all have memories as selective as their voters, or goldfish, extraordinary.
Just going to flat lie as if we don’t remember the time everyone lost their jobs and the economy needed trillions in stimulus just to keep the lights on, amazing cynicism here.
Just extraordinary. They can say anything, fully confident their followers will believe it: as if memories don't exist, as if there isn't video, as if we didn't all experience it. Amazing. Tens of millions of people eager to instantly metabolize lies.
Our undergirding crisis is a reality crisis.

All our institutions are designed to cater exclusively to a massive minority segment of conservative white people, to such a degree this segment believes even reality will change to suit them, should they refuse to believe in it.
Conservative white people have, by and large, abandoned reality. Reality doesn't suit them anymore. It doesn't let them do whatever the hell they want.

Conservative white people have asked to speak to reality's manager, and are dissatisfied with the outcome.
As if Trump didn’t dismantle the pandemic task force, lie for a year about the danger, sabotage national response, withhold supplies, oppose testing, politicize masks, as if it weren’t all televised, as if we didn’t live through it.

Our underlying crisis is a reality crisis.

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Democrats: ok, we’d like to do something, maybe...good?

Republicans: hell no

Democrats: haha, ok we see where you’re coming from

Republicans: eat shit

Democrats: what if we made it worse?

Republicans: kiss my ass

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Unlike Andrew Sullivan, the voices I want elevated are diverse, vital, and challenging to existing hegemony, while the voices I don't want elevated are toxic and bigoted.
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Such a weird formulation: to acknowledge what’s happening is needed and right, but too much and too fast? When has any government ever done anything good that was “too much, too fast?” Is that real?

Isn’t the actual danger the opposite formulation — “too little, too late?”
Trying to think of all history’s warning lessons of civilizations that failed because they adapted to changing realities and addressed systemic problems too efficiently and completely.
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