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Yeah I agree on all points. At the same time I doubt the Harris admin would have given ice a blank check and started occupying American cities in year 1. I am just stating I'm sympathetic to the argument of casting blue votes in swing states no matter the candidate.
Not my personal opinion but especially if someone is feeling targeted directly, I'm sympathetic.
I agree, but she would be sure to facilitate the next Republican doing that by playing loudly into other xenophobic policies like the concentration camps, border wall, etc. and normalizing such an attitude to her constituents. She would pave the way to people doing just as bad and then doing worse, while Dems claim to be morally superior because they are a few steps behind while walking just as readily down the path to Hell.
I'm sympathetic to people who fall for this bullshit in the sense that I'm sympathetic to an abuse victim whose perspective was distorted, because that's literally what the Dems are. The Dems literally argue "We will hurt you and people you care about, but so with the GOP, so you not being hurt is off the table. Supporting us hurting you is reducing harm to you and if you don't support us, aren't you really the person hurting people?" There are no words for how disgusting it is.
I agree completely. I see this discussion similar to: do you flee or stay and prepare? There's nothing I can say to someone who's thought through either position.
I think that sympathizing with how someone feels -- like sympathizing with an abuse victim who falsely believes that they need their abuser -- does not require validating their conclusion as actually true, and we should seek to change their minds, we should have things we can say, even if we need to be careful and respectful and also the answer changes in different contexts (with the stay/go example, where there often is a right answer but it depends a lot on the person's circumstances, and taking the position that there is a right answer is not the same as trying to force them to follow that answer).
I apologize for the run-on sentence.