Looks like someone took some shots at prez candidate Donald Trump at a rally in PA. From the videos I’ve seen, it looks like he did get grazed.

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    But why would you even think that people on the left are different from people on the right? This is why I’m not into politics myself. Because it all builds on some fake idea that one side is right about everything, even good people, while the other is wrong about everything, and probably are bad people as well.

    In reality, both sides are very similar and have much more incommon with eachother than they have with the politicians they are trying to support.

    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 months ago

      My understanding is that on average there are differences in psychology between conservative and progressive people. For example, conservative people tend to be okay with unfairness, since from their point of view society is a hierarchy and of course the people at the top are better off.

      Anyway, given that conservative and progressive people have a different vision of an ideal society and also different ideas about how to get there, it is reasonable to expect them at act differently. We know that most politically motivated violence is from the right.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        I’m sure conservatives have the same views on the other side, something negative, based in fear. If you think about it, all of politics is fear of change in a direction we don’t want, but others do.

        In a family when this happens, family members talk about it and try to understand eachother. At least in a good family. In a dysfunctional one, family members go to war with eachother. And that’s what I see in politics. There is no feeling of being humans on a ball together at all.