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Originally Posted by HolidayInTheSun
The Trump impeachment thing is interesting, because usually in these political disagreements, people are talking about completely different things. You talk about race relations and leftists picture an educated black gentleman in a suit in a nice car which he did not steal, driving the speed limit, sober, and maybe he has a tail light out, and the cops stop him, pull him out of his car and beat him to death just because. The right pictures a known thug with a long rap sheet who has just done something suspicious like steal from a shop or is loitering in a dark alley, then resists arrest, and police use force to bring him to heel. And then the left and right disagree over racism in America. This, at least, you can understand. You can see how one side is not understanding the other.
But in the case of this phone call, we have the transcript. People are reading the exact same words, and each side looks at it and interprets a completely different reality. I don't know what to make of that.
I imagine we are part of 1% or less that actually read the transcript. The spin is all that matters, the truth be damned. Sadly, the only thing that moves the needle is the PR battle in the aftermath of an event like this.
Even though the transcript was benign, it doesn't matter because nobody read it. The left was more unified and controlled the media narrative. Trump did himself a great disservice by pivoting to investigations and the nonsense about spies / treason. Therefore the left comes out looking more reasonable and thus the impeachment numbers rise.
Of course, anybody who actually reads the transcript would realize this is ridiculously overblown and much ado about nothing. That's just not the way this society works.