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The Conservative War on Everything
War is indeed hell.
The Conservative Republican movement in America is a case study of what fear does when it fully grips a group of people; the emotional net result of being weaned for decades on a steady diet of culture war rhetoric, targeted disinformation, racial stereotypes, incendiary sermons, and plain ol' white nationalism.
In this environment, the human heart becomes unable to manufacture empathy for the other, as it finds encroaching enemies everywhere it looks.
Someone in the grips of this kind of prolonged enmity can no longer seek the common good because it doesn't recognize how…
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