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  • This is a feature of the right. The Nazis couldn’t create anything artistic, they had to steal from Buddhism Hinduism and the Roman Empire. They lack imagination, which I’m sure is linked to their lack of empathy, and they suppress the counter-culture, which is where art comes from. They fundamentally lack the ability to critically think, which is required for understanding art. The USSR, an authoritarian but (at least in theory) leftist society, produced a LOT of art that’s pretty good.

    It’s also the same reason why they think “jokes” are just a way to make fun of someone and they can’t fight back because it’s “a joke”, and they think that’s what jokes are for. They lack the cognitive ability to parse out cleverness and only understand the subversion of expectation part.

    If they could think deeply about things, they wouldn’t be conservatives.













  • I’m in a red district in SoCal and my mom, a disability rights advocate and civil rights lawyer, tried to run for office a few times over the last couple of decades. Each time the only thing any of the Democratic Party reps we talked to cared about was how many rich people we knew and how many donations we could gather. Once they recognized she didn’t have connections to money, all support was pulled.

    Not to say that people shouldn’t try. But not only do you need the time and ability to run for office, unless you have a LOT of money it’s very difficult to even get a foot in the door.





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