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You can always tell who the liberals are in a political battle.
They’ll be the ones responding defensively or seeking to counter the other side with facts and data as if life were a debate, the winner of which is the one with the best evidence.
Because for some reason, liberals still think it possible to engage in rational, nuanced discourse with fascists.
Of course, they also bristle at using the word fascist to describe their adversaries, even when it fits, as it does with the modern Republican Party under the sway of its Trumpian base.
The label, they seem to think, is too judgy or something.
But if you can’t name your enemy, you will never defeat them.
Neither will you do so with nuance or reason.
Or by trying to see the good in some of their arguments or “relating” to their anger and pain.
That only works with people willing to do the same for you, who also value nuance and dialogue.
If one is, instead, locked in battle with those who believe:
