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(69,365 posts)It's my impression that people are getting away with ugly behavior - and I consider voting for Trump to be ugly behavior - because we Democrats are allowing it.
This permission state gets transferred into the media. Trump called Harris all kinds of vile things and there was no outrage. Biden stumbles over his words while defending Puerto Ricans and the media piled on for days.
People say, "Oh that's just Trump" and we let it go. We complain here on DU and among ourselves in safe spaces but we don't call up our Trumpy BIL and say, "You know, I'm disgusted that Trump called Kamala Harris a whore. What do you think about that?" Then let BIL say, "Oh, it's just Trump but what about prices." And then we can have a conversation where everything's on the table.