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AD says

Democrats at best are ambivalent

So I have been using the word ambivalent in that context probably since I learned the word but recently found out that it's wrong. I think you mean, "Democrats don't care either way", but's not what that means. That means, "Democrats care both ways in a conflicting way"...

No, I'm not a grammar nazi... I just notice that a lot nowadays.

"Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. Stated another way, ambivalence is the experience of having an attitude towards someone or something that contains both positively and negatively valenced components."

just_passing_through says

AD says

Democrats at best are ambivalent

So I have been using the word ambivalent in that context probably since I learned the word but recently found out that it's wrong. I think you mean, "Democrats don't care either way", but's not what that means. That means, "Democrats care both ways in a conflicting way"...

You are misunderstanding what I wrote. Read it again.

The best case scenario as far as the US national security and sovereignty, the Democrats have contradictory views of the Chicoms. They are not as much as ideologically against the Chicoms like the Republicans are.

Hence, the Democrats at best are ambivalent towards the Chicoms.
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