Doug Hayden: Was just reading this earlier today, and its why I remain bullish on Biden and the Democrats:

one of my theories about why americans are the way we are in 2024 is because we elected a monstrous fucking asshole in 2016 who encouraged everyone to be their fucking worst selves at all time, and that’s another thing that goes on his admittance criteria at the gates of the worst circles in hell

I agree about the selfishness, and I think that comes partly from Trump (everyone’s corrupt, get yours) and COVID+GF (you’re on your own, get yours)

policy matters, a lot, but personal conduct matters, too, and that’s something that used to be a shared, bipartisan agreement across americans (at least in a superficial way), it’s hard to get people to behave when one party is the avatar of men who’ve been banned from their kids’ soccer games

Was just reading this earlier today, and its why I remain bullish on Biden and the Democrats:

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