It doesn't seem to be indicative of "the worst of the left" in my experience. There are a ton of people I know who sound exactly like this. People close to me in other circles who aren't this level of crazy are literally scared to say anything and the people around her have literally publicly been talking about looking everyone in their friend group up to see if they voted because "if they didn't" apparently that makes them evil pieces of shit.
None of this is an exaggeration, and it isn't an outlier, it's extremely and frighteningly common.
And btw, people who sound exactly like this have been in positions of power and have permeated the establishment for the better part of a decade, so the idea that somehow the right is special crazy doesn't add up to me. They are largely a faded reflection of the lunacy on the left, imo.
The people you are describing are real and there's lots of them. I've spent a lot of time getting blocked on Bluesky (and getting called Nazi, transphobe, etc) for telling these folks to take it down a notch, precisely because of what has happened, people voted against the morons on the left without even considering who they're handing power over to. . So I'm not going to argue with you there. But I have no idea what you're talking about when you say these people have permeated the establishment in any sort of material way. The left worked Kamala for 4 months just to say the word "fascist" out loud.
But this all starts and ends when you just decide the other side is full of bad people. It's very polite of you not to call them immoral, but lumping them all into one horrible bin isn't much different.
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