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There *is* a difference between the Left & Right wing of the political spectrum. There's no use pretending otherwise. Teachable moments abound from America's election. The #RightWing is going to get us all killed and I don't feel like being nice about it any more. THREAD
Sound divisive? Sure. But what do you do? There *is* a difference. I know a lot of otherwise nice people that vote routinely for monstrous people & policies. There's great big booming teachable moments to be learned these days and I'm holding them up & saying 'look'. We must. /2
Prime differential between Left & Right's an empathy deficit. Penultimate differential (yet still critical) is a healthy respect for expertise/science. I've noticed it for years. It doesn't hold up 100% of the time but I'd stake my name on 3/4s. That's bad. It's getting worse /3
This #RightWing mindset is literally killing the planet. Places economy over safety during a deadly global pandemic. It's the stagnating omnipresent lock keeping everything broken & backwards. In November of 2020 it brought the entire world right up to the very edge of Fascism /4
The #RightWing in America just voted more overwhelmingly for the openly racist, climate-denying, proto-fascist sociopathic grifter stumblebum Donald Trump than any other Right Wing leader in American history. Join the entire rest of the world in processing that fact. /5
New President Joe Biden talks of reaching across the aisle which is the right move rhetorically, so long as it has nothing whatsoever to do with policy. Surely his time in the Obama admin taught him the utter fecklessness of actually trying to play ball with these people /6
Take it back to 2000: Gore conceded an election still very much in play to "heal the nation." Judge for yourself that healing. Juxtapose what it would've meant had America placed one of the great minds on Climate into the presidency. It's the greatest tragedy of the modern age /7
Trump and the cowardly or outright fascistic GOP that enable him to this day won't even concede a demonstrably lost election & already the Left's latest forces of appeasement want Joe Biden to water it down. Remember when @BillMaher used to matter? I do /8 https://twitter.com/TheBaronAB/status/1327615955749330944
The question for @billmaher, #Democrats, & the Left Wing all over the world is what else are you prepared to give up? How much have you given up already? What's halfway between #DoingWhatsRight and Racism, Sociopathy & Proto-Fascism? Take the poll! /9 https://twitter.com/TheBaronAB/status/1327619187250921474
The problem with #TheLeft (and I've noticed it for years and live it to this day) is there's far too many of us that are all geared up for the big kumbaya drum circle & we get taken advantage of because of it. We bring sniffy markers to a gunfight. It's way past time to stop. /10
Here in Alberta? I actually do love many of my "Conservative" brethren & sistren(?) but I don't respect their political decisions & often find their outlook selfish & unsustainable & *extremely* money-centric (yet penny-wise/pound foolish) at the expense of all else #abpoli /11
End result of that thinking? Alberta could lead the whole world in the shift from fossil fuels to renewables, a circular economy & sustainable civilization. Instead we're moving fast as we can in the opposite direction &'ll get left behind by the rest of the world as a result /12
Alberta's the most #RightWing province in all of Canada. We are the least likely to believe in Climate Science. Even now we're the most likely to still support the morally & intellectually bereft Donald Trump. These are not unrelated things. These are *the same* thing /13
It's the world's "Conservatives" that 1st foist austerity on a populace, inevitably creating hatred/division & fertile ground for amoral loudmouth populists to twist into political power for those very Conservatives that created the problem in the first place. A #CircleOfHate /14
#TheLeft needs to figure out QUICKLY where we are in this fight & that we are indeed in a fight & not a drum-circle & that the stakes (Outright Fascism vs Competently Addressing Multiple Disasters At The Same Time) have never, ever before in all of human history been higher /END
UPDATE: America's "Conservatives" poison their already unhinged base with outright lies of election thievery after years of Trump saying he won't accept a loss, predictably resulting in DEADLY INSURRECTION, DOMESTIC TERRORISM & TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA /18
Now those very same "Conservatives" that literally incited #InsurrectionDay sniffle in disdain that any attempt at accountability will further harm the national unity that they themselves exploded and further poison the followers they themselves poisoned. That's some balls. /19
Behold this incredible claim: holding the inciter of insurrection/domestic terrorism/treason accountable for his actions is JUST AS BAD as inciting the insurrection/domestic terrorism/treason itself. It also reads like an open threat/further incitement /20 https://twitter.com/RepKevinBrady/status/1348070306536153088
But Biden must *unite* Americans? In 2016 Trump lost the popular vote by millions yet "won" the electoral college. Did a single "Conservative" (let alone Trump) *ever* prioritize *uniting* Americans? Quite the contrary. It's just another con #TheLeft's uniquely susceptible to /21
