Having spent so much time dealing with it, and now beginning slowly to step away from it, I felt today I have not put the right words on what I see when I deal with Leftists. Their rhetoric is characterized by arrogance, violence, and emotional superficiality.
For them, outrage at conservatives is emotionally equal to compassion for the victims. It isn’t. Those are two different things. Anger is not compassion. They are two different things.
I often feel like I am dealing with people who have renounced their humanity, their ability to recognize as fellow humans those who do not agree with them ideologically.
Arrogance, violence, emotional superficiality. What personality profile do those remind me of?
Edit: you know, in family arguments, in somewhat healthy ones there comes a time where you mutually recognize that you are all in it together, and some calmness and forgiveness and regret enter the picture. This never happens in the political realm. It is pure obsession.