How I mentally separate people, when considering if “they deserve it”

copied and edited from a recent comment about cancelling Karens, for the potential use or commenting by others…

When it comes to the political divisions I split people into three kinds, for the most part.

There are the activist Leftists who include those people in positions of power either through a microphone or politics, who richly deserve whatever they get because they are living by the sword and it is only a matter of time until they are not useful to the Cause (because they are not on top of the Cause, or were but have fell from a lofty perch and are now among the Lesser Powers [hello Hillary and Weinstein, make room for Cuomo]).

The Democrat Party members in the party structure either as candidates, office holders or appointed but still retain some amount of sanity. Joe Manchin comes to mind, or Sinema? who voted against some of the latest insane largesses. Local politicians like governors also fit here for me, if they are looking more at their states needs but still pushing the Democrat platform solutions to the problems those ideas created. (Govs like Cuomo who looked more nationally and called for things to happen or tried to soak up the limelight for personal gain, but then had that light shine on their own closets usually fall into the first group. VA’s Northem hoist on his own petard, or Canada’s Trudeau kinda fit that first group as well).

Last, I separate the “regular people” from the pols for a variety of reasons. This really makes up two groups, which could be seen as lesser powered versions of the first two. There are the people that just vote Democrat for reasons I don’t blame too much. Sometimes they are just drinking the kool aid and the cyanide hasn’t hit them yet or they’re just zombie’ing along voting like their parents and grand parents but not paying attention. Others see the problems in both parties and pick the Dems for certain reasons that might be actually valid. These people I can usually have a conversation with, since they know what is going on and keep themselves informed.

The people that could go in the first group, had they any amount of power, are the shrill harridans, the HOA Karens and the young skulls full of mush stealing yard signs or saying “Socialism would work if WE did it” because they think corporations make money by stealing it from workers instead of in 5 penny increments of profit spread over a few million hamburgers. They are the ones most likely to scream about Trump! and ate all of the lies that top group spewed (but who did not believe what they lied, seeing it just as part of the game), the people wanting to buy a Prius because it makes them look good in front of their neighbors but ignore the coal plant on the other end of the power line (Gore, Kerry and the other Greens know it is all a scam, and buy waterfront houses to prove it). These people you cannot converse with due to the “what they did not reason into they cannot reason out of”. They are fully indoctrinated into the cult and will take some serious reality mugging to break out. Unfortunately most of them will probably take it as martyrdom proving them right.