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How can 1/3 of Americans think this child rapist is doing a good job?
Their separation from our reality is total and goes back many years. It’s not like they lived the same life but just this morning decided “nah that child rapist guy is ok.” For years they have been hearing from totally different information sources (I use this term loosely) a totally different narrative. It’s just one partisan witch hunt after another to them. None of it is real.
Hurting brown people and "communists" is more important than anything else to that 1/3.
btw "communists" are just any people who think the health insurance industry is fucked and way too expensive, and that all people deserve to be treated equally, and that the ultra wealthy shouldn't have as much power as they do.
Has nothing to do with actual communism but the far right propaganda machine is trying to poison any of these ideas with a radioactive word to anyone who remembers the red scare in the 1950s (which, btw, was also a complete bullshit witch hunt because workers were getting too many rights at that point and starting to cut into potential profits of the ultra wealthy cancerous tumors).
It's simpler than that. To them, "communists" and "socialists" are the same, and it's anyone that doesn't think businesses should be able to do anything they want, and any person non-conforming to their personal view of "normal" isn't even human. While most will not, some will even admit both of those publicly.
Like "DEI" and "woke," they're just synonyms for "ME NO LIKE!!"
See: "The Case for Fascism" youtube video just released by Steven Crowder. No need to watch it to give them more views, but it's fucking crazy. You can watch all kinds of reaction explainers on it.
The American Fascist Right was clearly on the wrong side when they publicly called Mister Rogers an "evil, evil man" back in 2007 (notably, 4 years after his death).
https://mashable.com/video/fox-and-friends-mr-rogers-evil
https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-blame-mr-rogers-25e2e90ff05/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-fred-rogers-evil/
He hates women, black people and minorities in general.
He's loud, crass, obnoxious.
He's tacky.
He's petty.
The US version of the return of the repressed
I have seen two different people recently with a trump 2028 yard sign, and wearing a trump 2028 shirt. People are evil morons.
No, not people...AMERICANS. The rest of the world is wondering WTF is going on over there.
Propaganda works.
Assaults on education work
I was thinking brainwashing… but I guess it’s the same thing.
Because some people are just dipshit racists
REPUBLICAN
VOTERS
LOVE
RAPING
CHILDREN
AND
GENOCIDE
Everyone who ever gaslit you that this wasn't the case was wrong.
Republicans are, at their very best, the parents who know their kids are being raped by an adult, and punish the kid for speaking up about it because it embarrasses them and they rather the child rape happen in the dark.
I tried for like 5 min to figure out what this spelled….
RVLRCAG, obvs. Duh.
It's a cult. Most will never stop believing.
Turns out the people who are quickest to say something is unamerican are also the same people who will ignore American values like the Pledge of Allegiance and the US Constitution just to "win."
The Pledge began as a marketing gimmick:
Not such a great example of "American values", or perhaps since it started as a corporate marketing gimmick it's a perfect example.
They’re locked in a decades-long cycle of abusive extraction.
American religion, politics, economics, and ecology are reaching the limits of an unsustainable system that only knows how to extract wealth and power. The Soviet Union collapsed for similar reasons. Above all, that form of government collapsed under the weight of propping up The Party’s false reality and its debts to the truth. Real operating principles flow from hard-learned evidence, experience, and wisdom. Societies simply cannot operate indefinitely from convoluted principals engineered to benefit only the few. This is the flaw in the philosophy behind strict conservatism - it’s fundamentally anti-social.
People stick with the devils they know. When long-term planning is negated by the cognitive load induced by navigating abuse, it can be almost impossible to transition to new sustainable modes of thinking and living.
Because 1/3 of Americans what to rape children.
They don’t know or understand what he’s doing. They just know he’s a republican and that’s why they support him.
They have turds for brains
Americans are about the dumbest people you can imagine. Lazy and selfish too. They don't care enough about anything but their own personal situations to do anything meaningful to help society anymore. We are watching an empire crumble...and they simply don't care enough to fix it.
America is the land of the fee, and the home of the slave.
Because he wears a red tie or whatever the team colors are
He "triggers the libs"
It's probably those that think it's liberal media lies (I was going to use slander but they probably don't know the meaning of the word) and he's doing a good job at sticking it to the Democrats.