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by anonmoose123 3422 days ago
It's interesting how people immediately assume only the Republicans/right/whatever are the deluded ones.

Note that these aren't tremendous sources, I'm only providing some historical facts because the narrative has been completely lost.

Bill Clinton built a wall, and kept out immigrants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZXbG5gvoC0

Bill Clinton fought against welfare and the nanny state: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/03/the-wor...

Bill Clinton bombed countries on a hair trigger and created enemies overseas: http://www.ornery.org/essays/2001-01-26-1.html

The fatal flaw in Curtis' documentary, and in most people who view it, is they think only Republicans suffer from hypernormalization. BOTH parties are guilty, and yes it's going to keep getting worse even if we have a D beside the president's name. Go back and watch The West Wing and see how long it takes until they're justifying the murder of innocent people in the middle east.

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I don't really think that Hypernormalisation is as partisan as you suggest - in fact, listen to the Chapo Trap House interview people are linking to here. He is extremely critical of the Democrats/centrists that trade as "the left" and goes to lengths to explain how culpable they are for the current dumpster fire we're experiencing