One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter’s birth certificate.

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    Can you be a little more succinct and explain the direct link between what progressives want and the government taking children away from their families?

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        To reiterate, I’m asking you to elaborate on a direct link between what progressives want and the government taking children away from their families.

        What you’ve said is tantamount to: “well progressives want the government to do things, and now the government is doing bad things that progressives don’t want them to do, but they’re still things, just like progressives wanted.”

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          There is no direct link, except for what you correctly rephrased:

          What you’ve said is tantamount to: “well progressives want the government to do things, and now the government is doing bad things that progressives don’t want them to do, but they’re still things, just like progressives wanted.”

          I agree, that’s what I said. Things are a two-edged sword. Just like power.

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            But conservatives also want things. And government overreach is a thing, so they should be comfortable with it. Right?

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              Right, and they are comfortable with it when they think it’s in their favor. Just like progressives.

              I’m mentioning progressives because a progressive is much likelier to read what I write here than a conservative, if that wasn’t clear from the beginning.

              That’s my point, there are two crowds feeding the dragon hoping that it’ll incinerate the other crowd. The dragon takes dragon cookies from one crowd, then eats someone from another crowd, making the first crowd cheer. Then takes dragon cookies from another crowd and bites somebody from the first crowd, making the second crowd cheer. It’s a big fat happy dragon.

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                But as you confirmed, you weren’t making a point that applies to any particular political ideology. Really more of an obvious, shallow statement that you dressed up a little.

                If you assume your audience is mostly progressive, then you can just state your point, and let probability do its thing.

                Really doesn’t make sense to tack that on there unless you’re just laying lazy bait.