• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    I wouldn’t bet anything important on it. The lack of empathy endemic to the right means that every voter will have to experience their own life-changing betrayal directly affecting them.

    For most of these people, there is no way to convince themselves to dig themselves out, we just have to wait until they keep digging and tunnel to the other side. A better wager would be that’s going to take more time than Trump & Musk will need to gut the government and dismantle democracy.

    • peto (he/him)@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Even then it’s not for certain. If their politics is grounded in hatred rather than self-interest they have no reason to stop as long as the outgroups can be punished as well.

      You can move self-interest to mutualism more easily than you can move hate to compassion.