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Another maddening aspect of it is normalizing the crazy and both-sides-ism. Like when the left screams things like "putting kids in cages", "killing people through pandemic ineptitude", "violently putting down protests", and "trying to steal an election" - that's happening in broad daylight. Like it's happened in the last year and/or is happening right now - there's not really debating that these are actually happening. Oh sure, someone might try to parse "pandemic ineptitude" (but other places have people dying, too!) or whatabout "Obama with kids in cages" (except, of course, it was only done for suspected child trafficking, etc, when it was thought the kid was in danger vs clearly as a matter of course now). But when we objectively look at it - these are fears because of what we are seeing happen right now.

Whereas if we look back to the Obama administration just 4 years ago, where Biden was VP, gun control got looser, taxes went up only if you were among the richest (and they're going up in 2021 for everyone because of how Trump/GOP structured their BS tax cut by design), the Dems can't get their own caucus to agree on a Green New Deal much less get it across the aisle, and the Iran deal was not "GOP wants Iran to not have the bomb while the Dems want them to" - it was (still is) a disagreement over how best to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Maybe one or two of those things change. But, man, if Obama was half the liberal he was made out to be, the liberals would like him a lot more as a President than they do as a person and a symbol.

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