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This is not funny, and life is not a game, but doesn't it seem to you that in many cases what some extremists accuse "the other side" of, is exactly what they themselves are doing?

I'll leave that as a question for the students to consider, but if you need some hints or even examples, I might be willing to provide some after a few days.

Good luck!

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@Arkturos said
This is not funny, and life is not a game, but doesn't it seem to you that in many cases what some extremists accuse "the other side" of, is exactly what they themselves are doing?

I'll leave that as a question for the students to consider, but if you need some hints or even examples, I might be willing to provide some after a few days.

Good luck!
Democrat party has been doing that for decades.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
Democrat party has been doing that for decades.
Doing what?

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
Democrat party has been doing that for decades.
You misspelled Republican.

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No idea what the past tense of Q.E.D. would be, but this is something I first observed when Ann Coulter was more active: which is to say, one side accusing "the other side" of something that many or most or even all humans do.

In the Trump Era, this has become even more noticeable.

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Maybe it was Don Lemon who summarized this phenomenon recently as:

"Every accusation is a confession."

But thank goodness Trump and his craven minions continue to be so opposed to the weaponization of the Justice Department, for instance.

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On a side topic, in general I think the "snowflake" attempt at a put-down was ill-considered symbolically and conceptually.

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@Arkturos said
This is not funny, and life is not a game, but doesn't it seem to you that in many cases what some extremists accuse "the other side" of, is exactly what they themselves are doing?

I'll leave that as a question for the students to consider, but if you need some hints or even examples, I might be willing to provide some after a few days.

Good luck!
Consider a pendulum. If things are stable and the world is in balance, then the pendulum doesn't move (or at least barely moves). But every time one side or the other does something to upset equilibrium the pendulum's movement increases.

If you apply this to politics then every action and reaction moves the pendulum further and further away from equilibrium. When Obama was elected the US right went ballistics. The vitriol and hatred towards that man was completely insane. We even got the Tea Party morons leading the stupidity. The pendulum was moved so far away from equilibrium that when Trump took over and they wanted revenge from the perceived wrong-doings the pendulum swing almost so far to the right that we hit the moon. Then came Biden, who didn't seem to want to make too many waves but the Dems and the Left certainly did. The pendulum swing so fast the other way that centrists got whiplash and they didn't want to keep it there. They almost went to Mars. And we have Trump part 2. We have now swung so hard right that we are close to the sun and society is burning.

The problem is that way, way too many people stay on the outer points and then there can never be balance or equilibrium.