• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    liberals are trying to convince independents, moderates, conservatives, and people on the right to agree on at least something.

    the people that don’t want to help others have over 50% of the power in the US federal government currently

    The problem doesn’t just lie in that there is conflict between people who do and do not want to help one another. It’s that there is a whole system in place that rewards the largescale harming of people.

    Trying to convince people to want to help each other is a challenge and confronts people’s individualism. That’s not the issue.

    But the notion of agreeing on something with people who actively require harming others is fundamentally destructive to that cause.