All thoughts are created equal… as long as they remain thoughts. It’s when they become words or actions that they become dangerous, especially if we fall into the trap of substituting polls for evidence and peer pressure for common sense. False, mean, and defamatory declarations aren’t the same as wise and true words; destructive behavior isn’t the same as constructive action.
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Hey, anti-vaxxers, since you’re all about freedom, try this on for size: Try spending your life with chronic bronchitis, recurring asthma, and occasional bouts of pneumonia? Imagine for just a moment that the chance you’ll die by drowning in your own body fluids is a good deal higher than it is for most people. How’s that for freedom?
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I received an email from a blog reader the other day, and I was about to toss it aside when I reconsidered. I realized that it was a fascinating, if somewhat disturbing, insight into why some people follow Donald Trump.
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Republicans are in the same kind of pickle Democrats found themselves in during the 1960s, when Southern conservatives started leaving the party for the GOP because they couldn’t stomach being in the same party with Northeastern aristocrats. … But this time, it’s worse. Here’s why.
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Pundits have focused a lot of attention on how much Republicans have done to protect Donald Trump, regardless of how outrageous or destructive his behavior has been. But less has been said about the things Republicans have learned from Trump about how to engage in that behavior themselves. Here are four ways they’ve done just that.
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Those fixated on loyalty at the expense of facts obsess night and day on a single objective: canceling the enemy, by hashtag, by accusation, or if that doesn’t work, by more violent means. The impulse to “cancel” someone can’t get more brazen than QAnon lady rep Marjorie Taylor Greene suggesting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.
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