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Conservative Who Has Been Complaining About Grocery Prices Says Harris’ Price-Gouging Ban is Communism (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] excral 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The alt right/populists turned politics basically into a game of us vs them where you associate with "your" party like you would with a sports team. If you say something against "their" party, they take it personally just like saying something bad about their favourite sports team. If "their" party screws up they are way more lenient, like they would be if their favourite does a foul. They win and lose with "their" party and make their personal success dependent on it. That might not be rational but it's normal behaviour for human to associate with groups like that. It just shouldn't happen with politicians and political parties.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

yeah its pretty much something of this sort. The human psychology is an interesting one, but what's even more interesting is somehow preventing this sort of behavior from cropping up within the party because this is where fascism breeds. And if you let it fester for too long, you get really bad shit.