Conspiracy thinking, magical thinking, reductive thinking, just-so thinking, disinformation, and plain old cult behavior also exist on the left.

Stay vigilant, stay curious, ground yourself in verifiable reality, and focus on people, not abstractions. There is no single -ism that solves all of our problems. There is always something new we don’t yet understand.

Reality is messy. We must deal with it as it is.

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