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You share the lack of perspective that most libs have. You don't understand just how unstable our world is. You have a lack of imagination, similar to me when I was younger, mostly because my parents kept me sheltered from the world they grew up in. Growing up poor and Latino in dysfunctional households motivated them to protect me.

Unlike you, I did eventually learn how dangerous the world can be without suffering the worst of it. I read about history, learned about political science, and talked with people who actually remember how terrible the world can be. The challenges we are nearly guaranteed to face in the next decade will come as such a brutal shock to people who've never been in danger.

You think Trump swinging "a lot of things right" isn't a big deal because you're privileged as fuck, even compared to me. I grew up near your city, and there was a common sense of ignorance that I noticed. People just didn't have the same financial concerns my family had. I always felt like an outsider in terms of class, even if the people were supposedly progressive. Get Out felt so relatable to me because I'd spent my life around out of touch liberals like you.

You're not ill intentioned, just privileged, protected by the consequences of politics. You're calling me hysterical because you're a Dunning-Kruger champagne socialist. I'm not trying to play oppression Olympics, as I'm privileged too, but you don't understand how dangerous and brutal the world is.