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5 days agoI have family that fell into this. Blame things confidently on one or two big bad outgroups, DARVO anything to the contrary, and make the other group plenty-othered. Bonus points if they’re non-christian or “fake” christians (catholics, LDS, whatever).
It’s never that simple, but news bubbles and social media can sure make it look like that to people, especially those who may have declining faculties in age.
My heavily-gerrymandered house district is basically a toss-up at about a third of votes counted. I still expect the R to win, sadly, but it’s closer than I expected.
Edit: elections website says my vote was actually counted, so that’s nice.
Edit2: down to 60 R / 40 D with a bit over half counted.
Edit3: aaaaand they called it R with about 2/3 votes in. Shithole.