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And, their views typically do not include the things that most of the people I know hate the most about the platform that they ascribe to.
They just think being Republican will make them wealthier or fix problems in the country or make the world a better place.
The single issue voters have an opinion on a single issue and everything else doesn't matter compared to that one thing.
They don't care about all of the bad as long as the single bit of good can be accomplished, and they don't care if you think that single bit of good is a bad thing.
They don't care to talk to or be dissuaded by their family members who are not approaching them with a spirit of love and care for them.
Beside that, it's not mentally or emotionally healthy to live spring-loaded with ontological traps that can be fired off with a single phrase to bring down judgment and the fires of hell on the people you meet.
They're not going to want to hear you if that's what you're bringing to the table.
Of course, after Trump in the white house, it's kinda irrelevant.
Sure, let's just casually label half the fucking country as Nazis. That definitely worked last time.
Prime fucking example of exactly what their first comment was talking about.
I must have missed something if every single Trump voter was out there marching with the ones carrying the nazi flag. Maybe I should get my eyes checked, as I sure didn't see tens of millions of people in those photos.
Stop misusing literally.
I understand what you're getting at, but I vehemently disagree that guilt by association can be reasonably applied to the entirety of a group this fucking large. Has the same feel to me as being distrustful of every person with dark skin because of skewed crime statistics.
I can't speak to your family, but when you talk about the full group of people who voted for Trump (or even people that would self identify as conservativr) you're talking about tens of millions of people. The idea that absolutely all, or even a majority of them, are explicitly aware of and OK with the people marching with nazi flags is something that can't just be taken as fact.
That's the core thrust of your argument, and it's so obviously flawed to me that I honestly have a hard time engaging with it.
Likewise, guilt by association is something that doesn't hold up at the mind boggling scales we're talking about. Guilt by association isn't ok in the far smaller scale case of associating the looters that took advantage of the BLM riots with the BLM rioters, right? It's not ok on the scale of "darkies commit more crimes statistically, so they're all criminals" right? So how can we lean on that so heavily with a much larger group that crosses all sorts of demographics lines?
Let me be clear: The ones that are aware, the ones that are literally sitting across the table (not simply a member of a mind bogglingly large amorphous group of vague political beliefs), the ones that are actually racist... fuck em. Garbage people.
But the assertion that literally every single person who made the shit ass choice to vote for the cheeto is just as bad as the marching nazis on his side is just a childish attempt to simplify a massively complicated situation involving many millions of people, all with their own personal lived experiences, priorities likely different from yours, differing levels and sources of news exposure, differing levels of education, and differing levels of political engagement.
This next part may sound condescending, but I hope you can believe that I don't mean it to be:
Maybe that simplification is what you need to make it through the day. Fair enough. Maybe that's what you need to not lose your mind having fruitless conversations with assholes. Fair enough.
But don't delude yourself into thinking that's any true solution for moving forward. It's survival at best. Maybe that's all you're capable of right now, and that's fine. Life was and continues to be rough without all this extra shit. Without taking it upon yourself to try and fix the gaping chasm of political divide.
Just don't be surprised when these people you denigrate, ignore, blanketly label as the worst of humanity don't have interest in working with you towards a better tomorrow. That's the trade off.
There either has to be some attempt made to reach and turn these people, or we resign ourselves that this shit will continue to happen again and again.
What if the only way to turn them is a repeat of 1939-1945?
It's not a nice way to say it, but it is important to distinguish conservatism from the current situation where you have conservatives supporting nazis, planning concentration camps, and planning to pull a Hong Kong-style silencing of the opposition.
It is important to tell conservatives that the guy they voted for has gone off the deep end. For diplomatic reasons, I would probably avoid emotional words and say something along the lines of "we're concerned that Trump plans to illegally block the democratic party from elections and trans people and immigrants may have to flee the country in the face of workplace discrimination or outright persecution and violence. His politicization of the military could lead to another coup attempt."
But that's just part of how you defuse fascism, those are the words you use with both Putin supporters and Trump supporters.
There is no place on earth and no time in history where "guh, inflation" is a reasonable excuse to vote for a nazi.