On which issues, if any, do you respect some of the people who disagree with you?

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10. Rank, incessant propaganda for agendas that drive millions into poverty and despair

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does not warrant respect.

The corporate one percent controlling our government now has a propaganda machine in place. It has disrupted and destroyed traditional spaces for conversation and political organizing and activism. It is the equivalent of pepper spray at Occupy gatherings, but deployed online to divert and pollute and destroy liberal communities.

Every government that turns to authoritarianism finds people who are willing to do this sort of work. Some of them may eventually find their consciences and regret being complicit in an agenda that is destroying this nation and millions of lives. However, I suspect that this type of work tends to attract those who rarely struggle with such internal voices in the first place.