April 05, 2024 10:57 AM UTC
5 Feedback- by: Colorado Pols
The web and excessive ends of social media don’t discriminate relating to political affiliation. Whether or not you’re on the far left or far proper of the political spectrum, the social media echo chamber will eat your mind simply the identical.
We wrote earlier this week about Republicans (once more) refusing to help laws about bettering entry to psychological well being remedies — nevermind that Republicans at all times say that “psychological well being” is the actual problem in mass shootings and thus gun violence prevention is pointless. Weirdo Rep. Brandi Bradley (R-Littleton) defined her vote in opposition to funding the “I Matter” youth psychological well being program — which has been confirmed to be efficient — by making this ridiculous declare:
“Colleges need to inform you that they’re offering psychological well being in your kids behind your backs, to assist them, when, in all actuality, they’re attempting to transgender your kids.”
Um…what?
As we wrote on Wednesday:
Social media and the right-wing echo chamber have so totally melted the brains of many Republicans that they imagine all the pieces is a secret effort to show youngsters into a special intercourse (or perhaps a completely different species). They’re utilizing that rationale right here to oppose a standard sense, profitable psychological well being intervention program that — by their very own phrases — is precisely the type of factor that we ought to be speaking about as an alternative of gun violence prevention.
We considered this after seeing the next social media put up from Rep. Elisabeth Epps, a Denver Democrat who’s up to now on the left of the political spectrum that she’s virtually neighbors with Bradley (who sits on the far-right excessive of this theoretical circle).
On this put up on the social media community previously often known as Twitter, Epps endorses the concept that Democrats are planning on INTENTIONALLY shedding the White Home in 2024 in order that Republicans might help Israel…one thing, one thing.
We all know that Epps is a staunch supporter of Palestine, notably because it pertains to the present Israel-Gaza warfare (and whatever the state of affairs), however suggesting that Democrats are attempting to lose the Presidency in 2024 — by any rationale — is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Epps’s 2024 conspiracy principle and Bradley’s perception that the federal government is secretly attempting to “transgender” your youngsters are clearly two utterly completely different arguments, however it could be robust to construct a case that both subterfuge is any much less absurd than the opposite. Maybe that’s so far as “bipartisanship” will get nowadays: Realizing that each main political events have their share of nuttery as you come across the bend of the ideological circle.