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    My ideology feels like the right fit, feels right, but it also says the other one is wrong, and spectacularly so. 

    I was talking to someone and they were saying, "how can you say vaccine works if people still get sick." 

    I said, "99 people in the hospital for Covid didn't get vaccinated, 1 person did, there are breakthrough cases. Nothing is perfect, but it mostly works overall. Just cause there are a few breakthrough cases, doesn't mean the vaccine doesn't work overall in most cases."

    She wasn't convinced. I saw the above meme, and thought of her. I thought it would not persuade her. 

    Thinking about the death cult that kills off it's members, they are also supposedly "pro-life" even if they are not, and their manic fixation on one little moment in time isn't pro-life at all. I want to say I'm in favor of life, but I don't want to be mistake for those people who pretend to be in favor of life, but overall are not. And that feels so righteous, that they are not just wrong but so wrong. 

    I've been radicalized by recent events, but it doesn't make me more certain. I want to figure out a bridge and compromises and work with the other third of the people who think different politically than me. Their rage and dastardly methods is not an excuse to abandon working with them.

One third of the people believe in helping people through government. One third of the people don't want government involvement, except for defense, which along with the treasury is what is named in the constitution. One third of the people want both sides to quit fighting, don't see totality in either perspective and want to withhold judgment, or maybe choose the person with the better character and more likely to play out the right policies, the right way. It's all very delicate and you can't ideology your way out of it. So how do these 3 groups get along? How do they agree to move forward in our world?

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