Steve Sailer's book Noticing is built around his decades-long observation that there are things you are not supposed to notice, and simply noticing them out loud gets you in trouble. There is a reason no one was noticing and it wasn't an accident.
So I have long noticed but only occasionally mentioned how often people - meaning especially my age, especially women, and ones I know/knew - show how kind and good they are by how often they mention that they hate Trump. The oftenness provides ample evidence that they don't actually criticise both sides, and leads to wondering why they have to say essentially the same thing so often.
The other side spreads it around to a somewhat larger circle of "stupid things liberals do," with a variety of targets.
Yogi Berra supposedly said "You can see a lot just by looking."
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"So I have long noticed but only occasionally mentioned how often people - meaning especially my age, especially women, and ones I know/knew - show how kind and good they are by how often they mention that they hate Trump."
To such people , all I can say (in the immortal words of Fibber McGee) is: "The needle is jumping a groove."
My sister mentioned casually many years ago that hatred of Trump was the driving force of her life.
Is this a kind of holy crusade you join to give your life meaning?
We know that people naturally make religion a status competition of "holier than thou." People do much the same thing with politics. Politics is not a means to staff public office and direct public policy, but instead one more means for me to declare that I am better than you.
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