- 21 Dec 2018 23:51
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Most people don't want to be publicly associated with other people who are obviously venal and immoral. And if they share the political opinions of those obviously venal and immoral people, they tend to get tarred with the same brush. This, it seems to me, is actually the single most important reason why people change their political opinions, especially later in life. For example, it used to be respectable to have racist opinions back in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The KKK actually groomed one of their leaders to be a presidential candidate in the 1920s, and he stood a good chance of winning. Nowadays, the KKK are just a bunch of gap-toothed rednecks who murder each other in a swamp. Literally. No respectable person wants to be associated with them, which means that no respectable person will publicly agree with their political opinions. Trump appears to be having the same effect on people. Lol.
XogGyux wrote:LOL the irony. Trump legacy: Turn conservatives into liberals.
So much winning.
Most people don't want to be publicly associated with other people who are obviously venal and immoral. And if they share the political opinions of those obviously venal and immoral people, they tend to get tarred with the same brush. This, it seems to me, is actually the single most important reason why people change their political opinions, especially later in life. For example, it used to be respectable to have racist opinions back in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The KKK actually groomed one of their leaders to be a presidential candidate in the 1920s, and he stood a good chance of winning. Nowadays, the KKK are just a bunch of gap-toothed rednecks who murder each other in a swamp. Literally. No respectable person wants to be associated with them, which means that no respectable person will publicly agree with their political opinions. Trump appears to be having the same effect on people. Lol.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)
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