And, of course, differentiate between those merely swept up from the genuinely hostile ones. Not too difficult.
Some are really idealistically happy and just don't realize that most of their rights will be legislated away if we don't get the right-wing extremists out of office. It's the noisy minority who've found their way here who don't care, for whom their own winning over mainstream liberals and Democrats is everything because they're ruled by ruthless aggressive extremism, who are the problem.
My hope is that 10 months from now everyone here at least will recognize the huge difference from behavior.
I am an example of a mainstream, progressive, liberal, egalitarian, justice-seeking, all-gender-respecting feminist Democrat who is committed to inclusive, tolerant, cooperative but above all principled democratic government.
The other consists of the ill-tempered & rude men in society, who have taken up a passion for politics. ... Consider yourself, when with them, as among the patients of Bedlam, needing medical more than moral counsel. Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics. In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.” Thomas Jefferson.
(Anyone who reads this will never believe the zealots who try to claim Thomas Jefferson was one of them.
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