Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly this whole “conservatives are just a bunch of dumb rabid animals” is they exact sentiment they want us to feel. Because then we never look at the deeper issues that are actually affecting our world.

    I for one would love to look at the deeper issues that are actually affecting our world, but I end up wasting a ton of my time replying to dumb rabid animal shit David Brooks gets to smear all over the New York Times op-ed page when my older relatives who vote in every single election send me his columns because they think that he makes some good points about “Cultural Marxism”

    • Zorque@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      And that’s their entire ploy. Keep people engaged with pointless dialogues that don’t mean anything. It’s better to point them to an article refuting such claims and move on. The debates aren’t worth getting into if they’re not made in earnest.