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this ain't it fam. it's the same smug armchair psychology we dunk on redditors for doing.
Hexbears can have a little smug armchair psychology. As a treat.
That's called being a leftcom, and we ban them for being annoying pedants
I don't know. Look at how much Democrats define themselves by being not Republicans. Hell,
essentially ran on "nothing will fundamentally change [compared to the Obama years]." He was the generic "not Republican" candidate!
On the interpersonal level, it's pretty common to excuse one's own shortcomings with "at least I'm not like that fucking guy," especially if that fucking guy is the only other point of comparison. Imagine you aren't a very good worker but always skate by because the only other employee is even worse. What are your thoughts going to be on a new worker who comes in and does the job even decently?
In the past 50 years there have been only 2 elections where the Democrats had any effective platform besides "we're not that fucking guy".
Thank you lol