Research funded by the NIH which our government is actively gutting
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It is breathtaking to consider how the members of the Administration and their children, parents, and grandparents have benefited from NIH-funded research in innumerable ways that they are shamefully unaware of, every time they visit the doctor or the ER.
They have created a huge rift in this country and I am still trying to figure out if I will forgive my family members and what they'd have to do to set us on a path towards reconciliation.
When there's a contract in place to conduct pediatric cancer research, and the government decides one day to break that contract, and it takes courts to rectify the situation, and then the government defies the courts, and the voters are cheering on the illegal actions of the politicians, well, rage is a mild word for what I feel.
Consider that everyone sees themselves as the hero… but that doesn’t mean you actually are, maybe, just maybe you are just as culpable as the person you’re accusing.
Republicans are currently the ones undermining the foundations or our republic, stripping rights from minorites (Texas just passed a bill that made it illegal to be trans), deporting people with no due process, arresting dissenting politicians and academics.
They're the ones plunging this country into economical ruin, destroying medicare and medicaid to transfer the savings to the 1% through massive tax cuts while letting everyone that depended on these programs die.
Everyone in support of these ideas is intolerant in my book, and I don't see why I should show empathy to a people that would rather see me in a camp.
Just based on the stuff you say here it’s pretty clear you very closely align yourself with “progressive values”. Many studies show that those who hold progressive beliefs, struggle to even accurately articulate the values and beliefs of those they believe they appose. Much less actually understand them.
You very clearly exhibit this behavior as well.
If you can’t understand the person who’s talking opposite you there is no way to come to an understanding, if you refuse to attempt to understand them, you can’t blame them for the state of animosity.