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Good People Won't Be Voting for Donald Trump
Everyone believes they're essentially a good human being.
We all tell ourselves a story, and in that story our cause is always just, our motives are always pure, our side eternally the right one.
We've all spent a lifetime learning how to defend ourselves against criticism, even when that criticism is justified; in those rare moments when even we begin to wonder if we're not who we say we are. We can gaslight the world and even ourselves, when necessary. The assumption of our own goodness protects us from accountability for thoughts and words and actions that are neither noble nor decent nor…
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