Travis

An independent sees a flawed system and asks:
“How can we fix this?”

MAGA sees a flawed system and says:
“Burn it all down.”

Education, healthcare, Social Security, the EPA—if it’s imperfect, they want to destroy it.

Reform takes work.
Destruction just takes rage.

I’ll admit my response to him was not great. But I was not expecting this.

It bothered me not because of the comments, but because of how normal cruelty has become online. The way mockery is framed as truth. The way we justify this and call it humor.

I’m trying to learn from it. I didn’t respond perfectly. But I still believe kindness matters, even when it’s unpopular.

I replied to a post mocking a college kid on twitter. My tone wasn’t perfect, but I tried to speak up for kindness. The backlash was instant—mockery, slurs, even being called a Pharisee.

Online vitriol is far too common. We need to stand for what’s right and make the world a better place.

I know because I just saw this over at that other place.

But then you have a faction of right wingers that are convinced that communists are taking over this country.

The biggest problem is that we don’t have politicians fighting for regular Americans. In other words, they need to be more like Bernie

Very true and well stated!

I’ve never even heard the term DezNat until now. But after looking up what it means, I instantly can think of several people that interacted with me, back when I was on Twitter. One of them called me spiritual deceived and evil for not supporting Trump.

They're waking up.

Ladies & gents, we present the party of family values!

Remind me, who did Nancy Mace vote for for president?

In what ways did Utah lose money from federal lands?

This visual from The Daily Show is absolute gold. All the things Trump said or did to the fine folks he had to sit with. 🤣 Including his wife.

Interesting, that’s a great point.

Oh I’m open to different perspectives. I have my beliefs but always open to learning new things

Following Ben now!

Thanks for your input to this discussion. You’ve made some great points 🙏

My personal opinion is that Trump and the MAGA republicans are dangerous to democracy and I’d love to know what our church leaders think of this. Would they agree with me? I think so, but maybe they wouldn’t. I shouldn’t pretend to know. But regardless, more direction for us members would be nice 👍

I agree with you wholeheartedly. How do you deal with political discussions with members of the church? For me it seems I get called evil or deceived more frequently these days because I vote more left then I did in the past.

Honestly with the hostile political climate of our days, I wish the first presidency and Q12 would be more vocal about the political issues of today. Wished they continued that honestly

This is what I don’t understand. Why are church members so scared of helping the poor, but are perfectly fine with the terrible effects of crony capitalism. I agree tax the rich!

Wow incredible. Thanks for the in depth response 👍. I’m no expert or history buff, but I loved your responses more than I can express. Thanks 🙏

Thanks. I agree. I’ve received a lot of hate on instagram lately for disagreeing with members on this topic

I don’t see how the two are related at all. I’d love for an active LDS member to chime in and give me their thoughts.

I’d love for some LDS people to chime in here, mostly for my education.
The LDS church, including apostles and prophets, have warned us about the dangers of socialism and communism. Now day most members see the Democratic Party as dangerous because they see it as “Marxist” or “socialist.”

Dear World,

We’re sorry.

Sincerely,

Sane, Decent Americans

IF YOU BELIEVE THE MANY SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OVER THE FEW, this is your time.
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This has nothing to do with me. I'm just stating the obvious.

It has everything to do with what the 1.2m @bsky.app users do.

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.

You are entitled to your own opinion.

You are not entitled to your own facts.

Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.