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1. This is why the right wingers win so much. All enemies are one to them.
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 01:27 PM
Jan 2018

It's easy to marshal anger against one foe. By corollary, to marshal anger, make all foes one. That's what Republicans do. Hillary -- liberal. ACA -- liberal. DACA -- liberal. Everything under one liberal umbrella.

When Democrats look at their foes, they see the religious right. They see the Forbes Chamber of Commerce types. They see plutocrats, the gun lobby, etc. But, by and large, they don't see them as one thing. Fighting multiple enemies on multiple fronts is psychologically exhausting when compared to fighting on one front.

[Yoda voice here] ---> To differentiate, not to artificially amalgamate, the way of thinkers is. Why we fail that is, young Skywalker.

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