OF COURSE a situation like that will produce undesired behaviors and emotional responses. The problem is we really do make the behavior the central issue and intervene on that level. Which is why it’s so destructive.

It’s that they are downstream of other things like an emotionally abusive family system, an authoritarian school system, and an understanding at that time that I was being harmed by a broken environment and it wasn’t going to acknowledge the truth.

you cannot always win elections. it isn't possible.

that means when you are in power, if there is a fascist party, you need to act llike it is an emergency, and you need to crush it.

*3-way tie

hillary clinton said, "some trump supporters suck" and ezra klein adn his ilk spend decades agonizing about it as trump boasts about wanting to murder vast swathes of the electorate.