re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡

And the opposite of that: Every pundit from here to the Central African Republic has been saying the Democrats want the economy to fail to get him out of office.

It’s friggin’ maddening. Nobody wants the economy to fail. Do they think liberals are breatharians or something?

Binary partisanship: If one side wants something positive, the other side has to want the negative because it will mean the former fails and gets voted out of office. It’s (of course) taken to its logical extremes by the far ends of both sides of the spectrum.

Ex: Wingnuts want abortion banned period, so they assume any opposition to this means the person wants abortion to including babies the moment they’re born.

Ex: Berners want M4A, so they assume anybody who so much as criticizes such as wanting people dying in the streets due to lack of care.