@eq @anneapplebaum Bullshit. This isn't the reader's fault & it isn't lifting a beacon of truth - it's a red carpet of words for fascists to walk over. It obfuscates, it prolongs, it normalizes. It's about sounding smart & above-it-all while the world burns & it can fuck all the way off & so can your blame shifting. The only egos this strokes is the writer themselves & the people like them & they carry far, FAR more blame for this than "everybody *broad gesture*".