Biden Out of Race

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Its not hard to sniff out. Conservatives usually throw their opinions around at everyone. After all, they want to decide who you can marry, what pregnant women must do, what you can call yourself, they want to see your birth certificate before you go to the bathroom, etc
"You know, I really wish somebody would just blow his head off already," he continued, not missing a beat. I made a non-committal noise in response, took a slug off my longneck, and changed the subject back to the eclipse. This incident was weird, but not for the surface reason.

The weird thing wasn't this retiree I had met ten minutes earlier casually wishing death on a political figure supported by roughly half the country.

No, the truly bizarre thing was how pedestrian this kind of occurrence had become in my own life, how inured to it I had become. It should be unusual for someone to make inflammatory political remarks to a fellow countryman after having known him only ten minutes. But it's not. It happens thousands of times every day in professional middle-class circles like the ones I travel in. In these circles, being liberal is the default, and therefore all liberals are "out": everyone knows that a lib is a lib, and they talk about their politics freely, indeed nearly non-stop in many cases.

By contrast, even moderate conservatives in such circles are usually closeted. They keep their heads down and their mouths shut. If the liberals know that conservatives walk silently amongst them, they sure don't see it as any reason to watch their mouths. On the contrary, they seem to sincerely believe that everyone around them believes more or less the same things they do.

They therefore say the most nakedly partisan, divisive things in mixed company, serenely confident they are surrounded by fellow travelers, blissfully ignorant of who in their lives might disagree with them.”

An accurate depiction of how you must talk around everyone without even realizing it.

From Kitten | Substack
 
Contrary to previous studies that found mental health outcomes may be worse for Democrats and Independents compared to Republicans, this study finds that depressive symptoms are virtually indistinguishable across party lines. The data showed 25.2% of Democrats screened positive for depression, compared with 23% of Independents and 20.5% of Republicans. These differences were not statistically significant, meaning that depression does not appear to discriminate by political belief.

While depression itself is non-partisan, access to mental health treatment may be another story altogether. Among those who screened positive for depression, the researchers found that Republicans were significantly less likely than both their Democratic and Independent counterparts to have sought help from a mental health care provider in the past 12 months. The study also showed that, among those with depressive symptoms, 73.9% of Republicans had unmet mental health care needs, versus 58.9% for Democrats and 58% Independents.


Pretty interesting study! I didn’t know this had come out. I would still posit that reducing one’s social ties over reasons that are generally not material to wellbeing, like political affiliation or opinion, is a terrible idea for mental health. The people I know who have done this are always worse off for having done it, though they certainly get to feel righteous for doing so
 
"You know, I really wish somebody would just blow his head off already," he continued, not missing a beat. I made a non-committal noise in response, took a slug off my longneck, and changed the subject back to the eclipse. This incident was weird, but not for the surface reason.

The weird thing wasn't this retiree I had met ten minutes earlier casually wishing death on a political figure supported by roughly half the country.

No, the truly bizarre thing was how pedestrian this kind of occurrence had become in my own life, how inured to it I had become. It should be unusual for someone to make inflammatory political remarks to a fellow countryman after having known him only ten minutes. But it's not. It happens thousands of times every day in professional middle-class circles like the ones I travel in. In these circles, being liberal is the default, and therefore all liberals are "out": everyone knows that a lib is a lib, and they talk about their politics freely, indeed nearly non-stop in many cases.

By contrast, even moderate conservatives in such circles are usually closeted. They keep their heads down and their mouths shut. If the liberals know that conservatives walk silently amongst them, they sure don't see it as any reason to watch their mouths. On the contrary, they seem to sincerely believe that everyone around them believes more or less the same things they do.

They therefore say the most nakedly partisan, divisive things in mixed company, serenely confident they are surrounded by fellow travelers, blissfully ignorant of who in their lives might disagree with them.”

An accurate depiction of how you must talk around everyone without even realizing it.

From Kitten | Substack

Sounds like code-switching.
 
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