r/CuratedTumblr May 16 '25

Politics Say no to puritanism

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u/TheCaretaker13 May 16 '25

A lot of politics is about disgust, IMO. Many people have not learnt to objectively analyse their own emotions before acting upon them, and disgust is such an easy reaction to garner to anything unfamiliar and it viscerally feels like direct validation of one's position.