April 05, 2024 10:57 AM UTC

Social Media Will Melt Left-Wing Brains, Too

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• by: Colorado Pols

The internet and extreme ends of social media do not discriminate when it comes to political affiliation. Whether you are on the far left or far right of the political spectrum, the social media echo chamber will eat your brain just the same.

We wrote earlier this week about Republicans (again) refusing to support legislation about improving access to mental health treatments — nevermind that Republicans always say that “mental health” is the real issue in mass shootings and thus gun violence prevention is unnecessary. Weirdo Rep. Brandi Bradley (R-Littleton) explained her vote against funding the “I Matter” youth mental health program — which has been proven to be effective — by making this ridiculous claim:

“Schools want to tell you that they are providing mental health for your children behind your backs, to help them, when, in all actuality, they are trying to transgender your children.”

Um…what?

As we wrote on Wednesday:

Social media and the right-wing echo chamber have so thoroughly melted the brains of many Republicans that they believe everything is a secret effort to turn kids into a different sex (or even a different species). They are using that rationale here to oppose a common sense, successful mental health intervention program that — by their own words — is exactly the kind of thing that we should be talking about instead of gun violence prevention.

We thought about this after seeing the following social media post from Rep. Elisabeth Epps, a Denver Democrat who is so far on the left of the political spectrum that she’s practically neighbors with Bradley (who sits at the far-right extreme of this theoretical circle).

In this post on the social media network formerly known as Twitter, Epps endorses the idea that Democrats are planning on INTENTIONALLY losing the White House in 2024 so that Republicans can help Israel…something, something.

We know that Epps is a staunch supporter of Palestine, particularly as it pertains to the current Israel-Gaza war (and regardless of the situation), but suggesting that Democrats are trying to lose the Presidency in 2024 — by any rationale — is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

Epps’s 2024 conspiracy theory and Bradley’s belief that the government is secretly trying to “transgender” your kids are obviously two completely different arguments, but it would be tough to build a case that either subterfuge is any less absurd than the other. Perhaps that’s as far as “bipartisanship” gets these days: Realizing that both major political parties have their share of nuttery as you come around the bend of the ideological circle.