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I think you’d be hard pressed to find anyone “rooting” for Iran on APC. In a 400 million person country with enough cameras you could find a few people protesting against free chocolate ice cream if that’s the narrative you’d like to create.
My friends are over there. I’m irritated they got yanked from their families and great air line jobs by people who specifically said they wouldn’t do this exact thing, and have clearly failed to articulate how to solve obvious, intractable strategic issues which everyone else clearly saw coming.
Very much this. 350 million people in a country with effectively two parties means you are going to have nutjobs in both. If you only judge a group of people by the most extreme elements in that group, it makes it really easy come to the conclusion that the whole group has lost its mind. Our splintered and partisan media fails us spectacularly here. People now routinely make strawman arguments based on what they imagine their critics to be rather than actually listening to and processing said criticism. The result is that we are all arguing with the monsters we imagine in our minds’ eye rather than actually hearing one another. Great for a quick serotonin release, less great for actually moving our country forward.