If You Lived In Germany In the 1930s and Weren't Anti-Semitic, Were You in a Bubble?

[TomCADem]

Likewise, if you were a White Southerner in the South, who believed that slavery should be abolished, were your views wrong, and by reading abolitionist literature were you in a bubble?

Likewise, are we living in a bubble now, believing that our views on science, free speech, racial and gender equality, are so self-evident that anyone who believes otherwise, is so wrong that it is so self-evident?

Frankly, we may be living in a bubble in assuming that the majority of Americans are not simply looking for a scapegoat upon which to place blame for the ills that they face whether it be Muslims, gays, African Americans, women in the workforce, immigrants, etc.

At what point do we as liberals, as progressives, and as Democrats wake up and realize that a lot of folks will happily give up their health care, benefits, social security, even protecting their children from pedophiles in return for tax cuts for the rich so long as the federal government validates their previously secret views that they are superior to women, minorities, immigrants, etc.

I do think we are living in a bubble in assuming that we will win. Looking around the world, freedom and liberty are the exception. Yet, it is too easy to take our hard fought rights for granted. Republicans and Trump are continuing to take away benefits and rights from millions of Americans with impunity, yet the American people are still relatively quiet.

[applegrove]

1. Remember what happened in the elections in Virginia. Fact is archaic

white man will go extinct and be replaced by millennial white men who are open to people of all stripes....charlottesville 200 the exception to that. Every extended family will be a family of colour or rainbow.

[marybourg]

2. We're living in a dystopia.

[0rganism]

3. you know, i really liked that bubble

it felt supportive and comfortable, not at all like the bed of nails it landed on when it popped.

i miss my happy bubble.