Lumpers: These thinkers that view the American system as needing a comprehensive overhaul.
So, libertarians? Social democrats? Make America Greaters? Corporate democrats? Evangelical Nationalists?
They embrace intersectionality, the concept that climate change, abortion rights, racial equity, and economic disparity are deeply interwoven.
Sounds like things proggies care about. We hate progressivism, right guys!
They argue that progress on any single issue is impossible without dismantling the underlying power structures, and thus demand that all allies adopt this synoptic worldview.
Again, a lot of different ideologies believe without dismantling the current power structures a new one can't exist.
Trump and his administration are mid process of dismantling what FDR and America built over the past century in order to replace it with their version of government.
So. What are Lumpers?
Splitters: These pragmatists prefer to take one issue at a time.
Pragmatists?
They are willing to accept allies for issue-specific legislative wins, like gun control or climate change -
You mean politicans who draft bipartisan legislation?
The type Trump recently tried to shoot down?
Or? What?
even if those allies do not share the broader, sweeping ideological goals of the lumpers.
Are you referring to Republicans before Republicans declared themselves "the party of No" in opposition to Obama winning the election.
Idiots: Those that can't tell the difference who repeat terms without understanding them.
#51 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER
You really are an idiot.
Calling all the South essentially unworthy of habitation is as dumb as saying [choose your US city] is a nest of left-wing anarchy and too dangerous even to enter.
I've heard that from seemingly intelligent people these days.
You can live in lots of the South and have plenty of land there and never encounter people you don't want to see, if that's your desire. If you have enough money to live on the Pacific Coast, you can set yourself up pretty well in the South, with all the modcons.
I lived in a place that was 70 percent Bush/Trump/Morgan Griffith and right next to East TN, which except for Dolly Parton and ETSU and some of Knoxville is pretty ignorant. I told Mark Warner back in 2020 that I wouldn't move a mile across the state line because of the crazy senators Tennessee has, and I'd take him and Kaine anytime.
As things got weirder, personally and nationally, I learned that to enjoy my own life and let others enjoy theirs, I had to get along with people. It's become a lot easier. I don't doubt it was messed up, but whatever made people Trumpers, they are still human. Except for maybe Trump.
In a grocery store parking lot couple weeks ago (Wegman's, so a pricey store for this area), I saw a young country white guy proudly displaying his truck and his flag and his Trump stickers, and my more peaceful 2008 Prius with a Buddhist bumper sticker was sitting next to his. I went up to unload my groceries, and he had his hackles up, expecting some guff. I smiled at him, waved, asked how he's doing, and he honestly returned the exchange.
Beats hate. Or dragging it around with you. Even for hours behind a keyboard.