This story from Iowa about evangelicals reminds you that you're never going to penetrate their anti-reality field, and you have to show up in large numbers to outvote them because persuasion is literally impossible.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 9, 2020
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IIRC, the campaign against Thomas Jefferson alleged he was going to burn Bibles.
We've been conducting politics like this since the beginning. Jules Verne had his peripatetic world traveler cross America and find a riot going on in a small Midwestern town. Turned out it wasn't a riot, it as a political campaign for a local public office in town. The position being contested as town dog-catcher. Verne's point was satirical, but only slightly so.
Dealing with people who don't agree with you and never will is as fundamental to America as Mom and cherry pie. Please stop acting like history began with you, and all was a Currier & Ives engraving before you became aware.
It's tiresome for the rest of us.
I wish I'd read this before I wrote my morning post.
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