#not that this is exclusive to votescolding libs like at all. idfk. Not that this is even a novel observation

[extinctiondebt]

it is disturbing how many ppl I’ve seen saying “I will never trust [x] minority group again” after the election, usually framed as one racial group vs another, usually with the implication that solidarity is dead, usually said as if this is a genuinely revolutionary sentiment, and it made it click more for me that for a significant amount of ppl this constant moral circus is all that politics is, like there is a realization that we are all caged animals being pitted against eachother, but the response isn’t to disengage, it’s to fully buy into the ethos of the dog fight. the way you conduct yourself here in the cage reveals something essential about the nature of you and everyone like you. we’re all eagerly waiting to see who you really are, and we all have an incentive to see you as evil. it will at least make it easier for us when we’re told to kill eachother if I know that a fraction of you didn’t vote for my candidate