The Meanest Show on Earth
Is progressive Twitter rage winning Democratic votes?
Twitter the Terrible
Twitter has become a haven for trolls and rubberneckers. It has also become a place for progressives to freely unload on anyone with whom they disagree.
What in the past were considered minor disagreements over politics or policy matters have been amplified into epic struggles of good versus evil; matters of existential importance, life and death.
Progressive Democrats see themselves as an avenging combination of Eugene Debs, FDR, and Robespierre; conservatives are Nazis, moderate Democrats, Nazi enablers.
“They disagree with us and therefore are evil. Let’s get them!” is the new rallying cry for progressive hardliners on Twitter.
When someone believes that they are on the side of good, and that their opponents are pure evil, there is nothing that “good” person won’t do in service to their higher cause.
Any means, however distasteful they may seem when judged on their own merits, is justified by the ends: “It is fine for me to verbally abuse, dehumanize and berate this person on Twitter; because they deserve it.”
Further, Twitter-avengers think, “To do otherwise would be wrong.”