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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To us liberals, this is optically very much the vibe. Is this the case IRL? Would love to understand the thinking. [/quote]

NP. I’m a Democrat and it feels to me that the Democrats have a lot invested in [b]appearing[/b] to have empathy, but not actually having any empathy.

The Republican lack of empathy feels more honest in many respects. [/quote]

VS?[/quote]

Versus actually having empathy. I simply do not believe Democrats as a group have empathy and compassion. I used to believe that, but no longer.

I find the Republicans somewhat refreshing in that respect. They don’t pretend they have empathy and compassion. [/quote]

They’re just downright cruel. But, if that’s your thing. [/quote]

The Republicans are downright cruel and honest about it. The Democrats are downright cruel and lie about it. They share their cruelty, but their methods for portraying it to others vary. [/quote]

I’m definitely going to need examples of Dems cruelty. [/quote]

God, where to start?

- Destroying the education of the most vulnerable students in the pandemic, leading to lifelong serious harm, in favor of trade unions that lobby for them. The data on the harm is incontrovertible, and after spring 2020, was known. Republicans showed more compassion for the most vulnerable children in the pandemic than Democrats did (and I say that as a registered Democrat in a blue state). The harms to those kids due to school closures will never be mitigated, and lives were not saved. The cynical ploy to buy party loyalty from the unions worked, and it’s obvious that’s what it was.

- Don’t even get me started on the grotesque harms promulgated on vulnerable women and children by the male supremacist movement known as trans rights. Medicalized transition of children — hotly defended and pushed by Democrats — is going to remembered in history the way lobotomies are (and that’s if it’s not remembered the way the Tuskegee poisonings/murders are).

- I live in a blue state and the progressive policies towards the homeless cannot be described as anything other than exceptionally cruel. Democrats push policies that have people die on the street.

- Defund the police is cruel, particularly as it tends to be pushed by wealthy white liberals who never have to live with the consequences.

I could go on and on and on. [/quote]

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