SciFi Chick wrote:If y'all want to assume that he's guilty because of accusations, go for it. I think he might be guilty, but I'm very aware that I have bias because he's clearly an asshole.
However, to assume that everyone thinks like you do, that all the white people who voted for him believed he was guilty and didn't care is incredibly cynical and arrogant. Please quit assuming that everyone who isn't on your side on every political issue is evil. This polarization HAS to stop
I am going to say something I won't regret. No I don't have to stop assuming that if a person's actions result in evil that they are evil or serve an evil purpose. Even if their intent or purpose is not to be evil. There were a large number of people who were asked; "Do you believe the women accusing Roy Moore?" The response was almost always some version of side stepping the question or "I don't have any reason to doubt their accusations". When asked why they were going to vote for a man who was obviously not qualified to be a judge or a senator they almost universally responded with an answer that implied that having a democratic senator was WORSE than having a pedophile, homophobic, sedition inciting, Republican in the seat. 650,000 + people voted for Roy More. A large majority of them had to know that he was unfit for office. The only way they could NOT know was if they turned off the television, radio, and internet 6 months ago.
Every single person who voted for Roy Moore acted in a manner that was evil. They rationalized it. They convinced themselves that it wasn't evil. They railed against the fake news, the liberal conspiracies, and how the U.S. has fallen from the grace of God and we are in the mess because of the evil liberal progressive agenda. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what their intent was. It doesn't matter if they are really good people, nice to their dog, and don't beat their kids and wife. They acted in a manner that was evil. Their actions were evil.
When a person can look the nation in the eye and say "We need Roy Moore's Republican vote more than we need to stand by principles like integrity and fitness for office" without showing even a twinge of guilt, horror, or some indication that they are suffering from a conflict of moral consistency and decency that is an act of evil.
When they can say that a democrat in office is worse than a pedophile in office that is an evil intent
When they cast a vote for a man who is obviously unfit for office and they know or should know that he is unfit that is an act of evil
This causes a series of predictable responses from me: I cannot meet them halfway because they are already polarized in the opposite direction that I am.
I cannot negotiate with them. All they want from me is my complete capitulation to their ideology
I cannot reason with them because they are reasoning from a place of irrational thought