(1/X) Sorry to keep doing these, but I wanted to do one more thing about how poorly media handles the asymmetry between Trump and Democrats. This is torn directly from my real life experiences watching deans empower an abusive narcissistic sociopath...
(2/X) A way to bothsides without technically bothsiding is just to say things like "no wonder Americans are losing faith in politics". It blames no one explicitly, which means that it blames everyone implicitly...
(3/X) You can say things like "a nation divided" or "a symptom of cultural decline", but it means always means the same things: all actors are equally at fault...
(4/X) This probably sounds like a conservative sentiment (though it's something I mostly hear other liberals say these days): people to have to be held to account for that actions. If someone can do shitty stuff and know all they'll get is "a nation divided"...
(5/X) Of course they'll do keep doing that shitty stuff and likely escalate to shittier stuff. To me, it's an example of a kind of thinking which has some kind of origin on the left and has become a weapon of the right...
(6/X) The vague idea that there are two sides to every story and that no one is really bad is something conservatives have often presented (as a caricature to some extent) of more liberal thinking...
(7/X) But how quickly it morphs into "good people on both sides" and "on vaccines, views differ". Another lesson of the current times is that a sufficiently amoral and sociopathic person or persons...
(8/X) Can take sentiment, idea, principle, etc. at hand and it use it for their purposes. It goes again to why there is no easy way to control a narcissistic sociopath with structures, since narcissistic sociopaths are so flexible in their methods...
(9/X) You need tough people with backbone to stand up to them. And that is lacking in our media and federal GOP officials. It is perhaps even more lacking in university administration, at least in my experience.
(10/X) I should also add that universities (and probably other non-profits) are places where you see quite a lot of ostensibly liberal-sounding jargon used for abusive and exploitative means...
(11/X) "We are all good people here" so abusers never have to be reined in. "It's all for the greater good" so ono one has to be paid adequately. And so on and so on.
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