By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,

Poverty has been swept under the rug in this country, and people don’t like being reminded it exists. And people deal with it by stigmatizing the people who remind them it does

Like how can you rally around the legacy of the civil rights movement when that’s something you’re clearly not committed to?

People who constantly say stuff like "you can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good; you have to bite your tongue and support the lesser of two evils" about - say - elections in Western countries seldom seem to apply that logic to "Hamas Vs the IDF" where Hamas is unambiguously the lesser evil.