Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "The Lincoln Project"
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@leonply Hey Leon. The next steps are: 1) stay involved or get involved in politics, but avoid hyper-partisanship and tribalism, 2) when engaging with a fellow American with a different opinion, we should listen and try to get at their underlying concern. (This is assuming they’re an honest person of good will, and not a lying troll piece of shit or white supremacist. Don’t bother with those.) If we listen, we might find that we have many concerns in common, once we get past the hardened crust of political bigotry and fear.
Let me give you a hypothetical example of how we might talk with someone, a friend or family member, who believes the election was rigged. Rather than arguing with them, which will get you nowhere, say to them, “Let’s set the particulars of that issue aside, and talk about elections in general. Do you generally trust them, or do you sometimes suspect they’re unfair?” León, do you see where I’m going with this? We want to find our common concerns. “Well, if you think elections might be unfair, what can we do to make them more fair?” or “Did you know that many of ordinary people of different political beliefs also worry about elections being fair?”
Don’t worry if this approach doesn’t give you immediate success. It takes time for something to grow when you plant a seed. It’s certainly going to give you better results than arguing! Also, it won’t work with hardcore liars, the cynical of spirit, and others that won’t engage with you in good faith. These people are a waste of your time. They’re a waste of everyone’s time.
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Woke up and wrote what turned into a frikkin’ essay. It’s too long to read, really. Not appropriate for a YouTube comment. But I want to put it somewhere it will be seen. Thanks for indulging me.
Polishing a Turd and Putting Lipstick on a Pig
These two picturesque phrases indicate in similar ways the idea of dishonesty trying to improve the appearance of something of no or little value.
The first phrase, however, indicates the futility of making a turd shiny (and thereby attractive) because it will still be visible as a piece of shit.
The second phrase, putting lipstick on a pig, offers the idea of beautifying something, making it more attractive than it is to a gullible person, such as touting a worthless stock as being valuable. The idea is that the lipstick applier is concealing the true nature of the thing he is trying to sell.
I was thinking about these two phrases this morning, as they relate to Donald Trump and his followers. Our current crises have been either created or made worse by Trump and his administration henchmen—and he’s gotten away with it by using the two techniques of turd polishing and pig beautifying, just as he’s gotten away with all manner of scams his entire career.
And you’d think by now, his base would have figured out that they’ve been kissing pigs and eating shit. Obviously, some supporters have learned this, some quite recently, and have left the fold.
But those that are staying? Will they ever be convinced that Trump is a bad man? Will they ever realize that they’ve been lied to along? Even if we can stop Trump now, is there hope that these ultimate victims of Trump’s duplicity can be recuperated?
I’m thinking no. These are people that cannot be brought to reason for the simple reason that they LIKE to eat shit and kiss pigs. In fact, their favorite thing to do is getting fucked by lipsticked pigs and their favorite food is shit.
Look, I don’t want to kink shame. I don’t want to judge. I’m a live-and-let-live type of person. The problem here is that we’re not safe from these shit eating pig fuckers because they also want to force everyone to eat shit and fuck pigs, and they expect us to like it. Or else. Or else we can die face down in shit, our corpses humped by pigs.
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