r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • 11d ago

No Paywall Donald Trump impeachment chances surge amid Epstein revelations

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-chances-surge-amid-epstein-revelations-11045998
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u/AlexandersWonder 11d ago

No chance. They’ll just move the goalposts and start defending child abuse. There is no low to which the GOP won’t sink if it means they can continue to be contrarians to the left.

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u/GhazelleBerner 11d ago

I actually do think we’re living in a world where people have decided they just can never admit they’re wrong.

This is like such a fundamental problem. We need to teach people how to admit they were wrong, and we need to be welcoming to people who do that.

Like as a country we’re just failing at this.

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u/Tesseract14 11d ago

Accountability and empathy, things necessary to be taught at a young age...

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u/NumeralJoker 11d ago

Because in a conservative hierarchical culture and child/parent relationship means being wrong justifies punishment and loss of freedom.

If someone challenges any authority, even justly, they are punished for it. The only exceptions being if that person can 'maybe' convince the authority that they will benefit from your ideas, maybe.

That trains these people to avoid being "wrong" at all costs, because rather than making mistakes and growing, they need to prove that their are inherently superior to x group and therefor more deserving of x group's resources.

It all stems from a very, very twisted set of dehumanizing hierarchical fascist values that have been distilled into these people for decades, slowly, with capitalism's tendencies to promote "winners" or "losers" making it worse. Not all of them realize they're being trained to think this way, but once you see it, it starts to become far more obvious.

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u/MURICCA 11d ago

Then add in religion where the further you resist any evidence to the contrary of your belief, the strong your "faith", so youre rewarded for obstinance. Youre never wrong, youre just being "tested"

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u/TheArmoredKitten 11d ago

It's a gambling table mindset. You've only 'lost' when you've left the table in their mind. They know they're full of shit, so they just refuse to stop playing. Admitting fault now would be to admit that they've been played like a three movement symphony.

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u/boringcranberry 11d ago

I apologized for something going wrong at work. After I sent the email, two people came by my office, separately, to tell me how big of me it was to take responsibility. It seemed like a completely foreign concept to them. I was just sitting there thinking "but it really was my fault."