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Positive spin: 'I was dumb as a rock': Hardcore MAGA couple ditches Trump after getting 'kick in teeth' (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 4 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/LeopardsAteMyFace@lemmy.ca

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“We voted for Trump, not realizing that he was going to slam as hard as he did, but it was on day one when he sat down, right after inauguration, and started signing those executive orders and just trashed us federal employees, it was a kick in the teeth,” Ron said.

“That point was the beginning of my turning away from MAGA.”

“If people would just listen and research and do something other than just listen to Fox News, we may all be better off, but it's going to take an open mind and an ability to say, ‘I made a mistake,’ because once you say you made a mistake, you can turn the ship around,” said Chrissey Kelley, 50, a stay-at-home mom.

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[–] Kyle@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 days ago (7 children)

For once, I'd like to see one of these people say they no longer support MAGA or anything close to that because they woke up and developed empathy for other people.

Every time it's "oh, it finally affected me from getting mine, so now I don't like it."

They didn't drastically change their values. These people are still ripe for the next grift that comes along.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Quotation: Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Meanwhile the MAGAts are out there worshipping Charlie Kirk when he said:

I can’t stand the word empathy actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Elron Musk also said

The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. They’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.

[–] Kyle@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Sometimes I like to think what strong and primary values a "perfect" (within possibility) society would have. And the main answer I come up with is empathy. Empathy first, then a strong rejection of lies, misinformation and superstition and a high value for truth and authenticity.

I remember reading about self aware psychopaths that were raised in an environment where empathy was valued more than anything. So they consciously choose prosocial behavior not out of felt empathy, but out of rational self-interest. Knowing that prosocial behavior is most beneficial framework to live in. Therefore they choose it.

I think I know some people like this. They are predisposed to steamroll people, but all they read is about how to be kind and ethical, how to take care of their staff. The have ended up being one of the kindest people I know but I can tell it's from a lot of learning and work to become that way.

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