Maybe because right now in America, there is a certain political opinion that loves to push outlandish conspiracies, like the imaginary Sharia law in France mentioned in the article.
There is only one party whose national politicians and media outlets publicly peddle conspiracy garbage like:
* The birther conspiracy about Barack Obama
* Pizzagate
* Jade Helm, where, they claim, President Obama was preparing to invade Texas and force everyone into concentration camps
* Claiming the Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting was a government operation
* Claiming the Las Vegas elementary school mass shooting was a government operation
* Agenda 21 - Imagining US citizens are being mass murdered by the UN for population control
* Claiming Sharia law is implemented in Illinois (ironically being pushed by Alabama Senate candidate Moore, who was twice removed from the a state court bench for forcing his religious views in the court)
The list goes on and on. After decades of spewing so much propaganda through right-wing media outlets like AM talk shows, Fox News etc, while simultaneously painting education or sourced information as "elitist", "mainstream media", the GOP has unhinged a huge section of their base and separated them from reality.
That's what the last 8 years have led up to. Having different political views is now a completely normal reason to stop talking to someone entirely. This leads to everyone in the US existing in a political echo chamber attacking strawman versions of the other side.
Most Democrats think people who voted for Trump did so because they are racist or sexist. That's it, no room for reasonable discourse when out of the gate someone is assuming the other to be irrational.
> Most Democrats think people who voted for Trump did so because they are racist or sexist.
Most that I know, myself included, don't think that about people who voted for Trump. I do however think that voting for Trump makes you racist or sexist. Voting for Trump wasn't necessarily a result of it, but it sure was an indicator or turning point.
>People who voted for Donald Trump didn't do so because they were racist or sexist
>But voting for Trump makes you a racist or sexist
Not sure I understood your comment.
Basically, causes are different than effect. A person may have voted for him because of economic promises, but because they thought the tradeoffs on race and gender mattered less than those economic promises they are acting in a way consistent with racism.
And so the goalposts keep moving. How soon until not giving up your job for a poor minority is considered racist? At what point do we draw the line and say it is ok to have your own self-interest in mind, rather than that of the outgroup? At what point do we stop responding to the bludgeon that is the word "racist"?
Eventually you are going to push people into doing actually racist things if you keep trying to deny them the means to self-sovereignty.
> Most Democrats think people who voted for Trump did so because they are racist or sexist.
If you're 100% ok with an avowed racist and sexist being elected, you must at the very least be sympathetic to those beliefs and what's the difference at that point?
There is only one party whose national politicians and media outlets publicly peddle conspiracy garbage like:
* The birther conspiracy about Barack Obama
* Pizzagate
* Jade Helm, where, they claim, President Obama was preparing to invade Texas and force everyone into concentration camps
* Claiming the Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting was a government operation
* Claiming the Las Vegas elementary school mass shooting was a government operation
* Agenda 21 - Imagining US citizens are being mass murdered by the UN for population control
* Claiming Sharia law is implemented in Illinois (ironically being pushed by Alabama Senate candidate Moore, who was twice removed from the a state court bench for forcing his religious views in the court)
The list goes on and on. After decades of spewing so much propaganda through right-wing media outlets like AM talk shows, Fox News etc, while simultaneously painting education or sourced information as "elitist", "mainstream media", the GOP has unhinged a huge section of their base and separated them from reality.