yep. right wing white trash IS the most easily manipulated group of people
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If moron Republicans were capable of learning the Republican party would have ceased to exist after Bush's two illegal wars, torture and crashing the economy.
Or Trump's stealing, raping, crashing the economy and mismanagement of a pandemic and trying TO OVERTHROW THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
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These people do not learn, they are not serious and trying to "reach them" is a waste of time.
I know in your liberal heart you want to BELIEVE they have learned now and suddenly won't be massive racists assholes... Don't fall for it again...
Our efforts need to be on reaching people that DO NOT VOTE and have abandoned the system completely, we need to get to them that democracy is an active process and you need to engage to keep it going.
I give ZERO shits and have ZERO compassion left for Trump voters.
If they want back into society they need to actually DO SOMETHING about the mess they have caused, not just whine how now suddenly they are sorry...
wow. some of you left wing extremists should have told him or something. jeez.
He was a fucking liar and conman when you voted for him, you dipshit.
But this time he promised!
The belated insights of the gullible. How useful.
Congratulations on taking 10+ fucking years to figure that one out, dude.
The worst part is this stupid asshole won't acknowledge that everyone else is right and has been all along - it's "You just happened to be right, but MY special conclusion now, happening now, is the only logical way to have concluded this."
I don't have any sympathy for a voter dumb enough and conservative enough to vote for Trump three times in a row.
I think we should have sympathy. Better late than never, and nothing will ever change if people aren't allowed to learn and grow.
MAGA is a community, and a lot of MAGAtards are only there for the community. If progressives aren't willing to accept personal growth, there is no reason for them to grow.
Progressives need to take the high road and welcome the MAGAts who have finally seen the light.
An eye for an eye only creates blindness. Someone needs to stop the cycle.
Sympathy for what though? He's not a victim, so what is there to sympathiz about?
It's a community in the same way fans of a TV show are. Parasocial at most. Shared imbecility, more probably.
Did he actually learn anything or is he just going to vote for the next fascist with an R next to their name?
It's very likely that they don't learn what they aren't thaught. You don't teach anything if there is no contact, and moments like this are opportunities for contact.
Yesyes, I get it, it's not your job to teach them. The issue is though that nobody else will, except of course propagandists on the right who are happy to teach them.
How'd that work out with the Confederacy? Did turning the other cheek teach them the error of their ways? Or did it just create a society that makes excuses to justify its racist "heritage"?
You are explicitly describing a situation where the people didn't actually change at all. If you remember the whole Reconstruction period it was basically white Southerners refusing to change and waiting the north out. As soon as the north gave up they quickly undid as much as possible.
Fucking miles different than someone actually chaning their mind or regretting their past actions. The south did neither
My point is, they won't regret anything. A few might...for a minute. And then they'll go right back to voting whichever way Fox News and Steve Bannon tell them to. All the same people who are currently pulling their strings right now, will just wait a little while and then start doing it all over again, once the heat is off.
Which makes it exactly the same as what happened after the last civil war...which you described quite well. Trust me...that's exactly how it will play out again, unless some serious changes are made to US society.
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The sentiment of your post is commendable, but I'm skeptical that any magats are "finally seeing the light". They've been fully supportive of bigotry and facsism for a decade now. I'm relieved that support for trump is beginning to dwindle, but it's not because those supporters are now becoming more progressive. Its because their gas prices have gone up. They will blindly continue to vote red in the future.
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It's important to welcome people leaving cults, no matter how dumb it looks that they were in the cult in the first place. The main reason they were there is community, and if they don't find a welcoming community outside, they'll go right back in.
Rehabilitation of people willing to forgo MAGA and the conservatism that fuels it is one thing, but quotes like "He’s a con man, a liar, doesn’t keep his promises" illustrate that some voters haven't had a change of heart about MAGA policies, just on Trump's ability to actually deliver on them.
Depends on what they're referencing. Some people only vote on single issues for some reason. Is he mad that Trump said "no new wars" and did the opposite? Or is he mad that Trump hasn't finished the border wall?
Context matters a lot
If they truly have learned maybe they can be saved, but god damn how out of touch would you have to be to only just now be figuring this out?
It is kind of baffling to me that many don't seem to have an analysis/understanding of maga beyond "stupidity and racism".
Of course that's a big part, but by itself, it's only scratching the surface?
And you don't have sympathy for Trump voters turning cloak? Seriously? I hope you can at least pretend because you aren't getting out of this mess without working with people like that. Else you might as well give up now.
realise im in a cult
Holy shit gotta get out
hey everyone I was totally brainwashed fucking hell that was nuts you gotta listen to me
"fuck you piece of shit cult-sucker die die die hahaha no sympathy"
back to the compound for me
I'm glad they finally figured it out, but I'm definitely still going to give them shit about being fooled 3 times in a row.
And I'm also not going to trust them as far as I can throw them when it comes to not getting fooled a 4th time.
This is a good point. Con men target people who have been conned in the past, because the person’s personality hasn’t changed — they’re still an easy mark with the same levers that worked last time.
"DO YOU WANT THIS TO BE REAL OR NOT"
Far from the first time conservatives have finally figured out after it’s completely too late. They did the same thing with Bush, Iraq and Afghanistan. In five years, people who were rapidly pro Trump will be saying “well, I never really liked him”.
They still kiss Reagan's dead demented ass.
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
I guess. These days we can't even reliably expect people to agree they disapprove of Nazis in 1930s Germany. That used to be a given.
Give it a few decades, we might swing back
......on the one hand, think of what this means. These voters aren't trying to burn the country. They don't want to see people suffer. They've been told their lives suck, and this is the answer to fix it. They're so far removed from reality that they believe in racist teachings. They believe in a prison system designed to eat up as much of the general population as possible. They've been normalized to think of the whole country as us vs them. They routinely watch a news network which has openly admitted in court that they are not a news network. All of this leads to a section of society where these people clutch and grasp at anyone willing to help them, and make life better. It's not an issue of morality. It's an issue of choice. They thought they were making the right choice, as they were being led down a path of conmen, crooks, theives, liars, rapists, and pedophiles.
All of that is on the one hand.
On the OTHER hand......you dumb as hell, boy! Damn you dumb! How you get so dumb?
They believe in a prison system designed to eat up as much of the general population as possible.
This reminded me. Trumpy dude I know at work, not a dumb guy, but poorly educated, WAS NOT AWARE that private prisons existed and when notified of that fact THOUGHT THAT THEY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. The guy he voted for 3 times has so many ties to private prison companies it's absurd, and this dude didn't even know they existed.
Absolutely, mind-blowingly, galaxy-brained moment.
Except that they do want to see people suffer. It's just that now they're the ones suffering. That's the only common thread that keeps them voting for hurting people and being upset when it's them that's hurt. Same shit as always.
If they could learn from their mistakes it would be nice. But now that they've turned on Trump they're ready for the next grifter to absorb their support.
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It wasn't "brain washing"! They believed in naziism just like magas do. Stop denying their agency. They picked it. You all picked it.
I never understood Hitler or fascism until Trump came along.
Dictatorship comes from the top down. Fascism is when people want to give dear leader their power. They are happy to rule/act for dear leader without orders.
I always thought if I lived through the rise of an authoritarian cult of personality I would understand the process better and it would be less baffling than the ones you read about in history.
But no it still seems completely fucking crazy after watching it for over 10 years.
"Brainwash" is the key word to understanding what's happening here. We're being constantly manipulated psychologically through propaganda and most people don't even realize it.
When asked at this point why these idiots STILL support the pedophile if knowing he's a pedophile rapist, they say his policies are good. When asked which policies specifically, they only say "getting the illegals out" ... that's it. That's all they got, and even that's a fucking disaster shitshow. They can't collectively admit they were duped.
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