It's the whole in the dam that would bring their entire worldview crashing down.
The Democrats are as bad as the Republicans, if not worse. These boomers have spent decades acting like the Republicans are literally Nazis. If they admit that the Democrats can do even one thing wrong, it brings all their terrible shit into question. It makes explicit the fact that those they consider to be evil are the same as they are; it makes them confront their own evil, something that boomers are incapable of.
it makes them confront their own evil, something that boomers are incapable of.
You made sense up to here. This is just a gross generalization in the form of a cheap shot at an entire generation, a demographic I happen to occupy.
Sniping at older generations is yet another media-created distraction. Many people like to latch onto the generality because it's easier than coming to grips with the fact that people are individuals, not representatives of abstract categories. This is the fallacy that drives the "intersectionality" of neo-Marxist identity politics
Because if he did they he would have to acknowledge the possibility that democrats are not universally good and republicans are not universally bad.
For some people that's too much to handle. It's better that the world is divided between good and evil, it's easier that way.
It's the whole in the dam that would bring their entire worldview crashing down.
The Democrats are as bad as the Republicans, if not worse. These boomers have spent decades acting like the Republicans are literally Nazis. If they admit that the Democrats can do even one thing wrong, it brings all their terrible shit into question. It makes explicit the fact that those they consider to be evil are the same as they are; it makes them confront their own evil, something that boomers are incapable of.
You made sense up to here. This is just a gross generalization in the form of a cheap shot at an entire generation, a demographic I happen to occupy.
Sniping at older generations is yet another media-created distraction. Many people like to latch onto the generality because it's easier than coming to grips with the fact that people are individuals, not representatives of abstract categories. This is the fallacy that drives the "intersectionality" of neo-Marxist identity politics