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42% of Iowa Republicans are Nazis. Good to know.
And the remaining 58% are having dinner at the same table as them.
And will still vote with them, which is the bigger issue that has real impacts on others.
This is for "likely Iowa caucusgoers". In other words, these are the most partisan Republican voters in Iowa.
In the not too distant past, something like this might have turned off moderates in the GOP. But now, it feels like there aren't any moderate Republicans anymore.
Republicans are either "Strong MAGA" or "Nervous MAGA". The party does not tolerate other perspectives.
I'll thank Donald for one thing: uniting severe cases of mental illness that impacts perception of reality and morality leading to greed and bigotry under one banner.
Edit: My apologies for speaking for your own personal struggles of mental illness. Perhaps I'm better off just saying assholes. But then I'll get people saying, "I'm an asshole but not associated with them."
I have a mental illness, don’t lump me in with these jerkoffs
The severity of illness that comes to mind surpasses that which you possess to such an extent it impacts your perception of reality and morality, but my apologies for casting you a part of this group.
What does mental illness have to do with supporting donald trump? Very little if you ask me. The two things are not mutually exclusive, not even a little bit.
I think Lennybird may have worded that in an unfortunate way, but there is a point, the MAGAt crap is designed to exploit mental illness and nurodivergence. The thought process it takes to believe the junk that comes from them is truly magical, and that level of mental gymnastics requires an amount of breakdown of skill or deep religious belief, and while that is not All mental illness I can see where someone on the outside could look into that camp and see only mentally ill people and just put together a very very bad and frankly hurtful phrase.
It's worded worse than "in an unfortunate way". The phrase used was "all the mental illness". If Lennybird wants to be less prejudice, they can rephrase it themself.
The real tragedy is knowing some of the kindest and most educated people I've met are still willing to vote for this monster. I can't tell if they have some ulterior motives or they're just willing to play dumb over loving a dictator because they believe in some fantasy that Trump's not a bad person deep down.
Very true. We've all witnessed this. I've thought about this a good bit, especially coming from a former Republican household decades ago.
1/3 are people who who may be educated or hard workers but are duped easily by propaganda because they're short on free time or not educated specifically in how to critically-think and analyze sources. They get home from a hard day's work and flip on fox news because they were roped in by sports and now stay for the pretty news anchors or the angry men telling them their paychecks are being stolen etc etc. Some of these people may be reachable if you could sit down with them for hours and hours at a time and lay it all out.
1/3 are the greedy socio/psychopaths who are aware enough to know the game being played and move the pieces accordingly to grift the gullible. (Bannon comes to mind)
1/3 are the world-burner outcasts who don't care or are simply too stupid to understand the long-term consequences of their actions. (Typical 4channers or Trump rally groupies).
The documentary, The Brainwashing of my Dad delves into this: How can kind, smart people be duped into this?
1/3 are the world-burner outcasts who don't care or are simply too stupid to understand the longterm consequences of their actions.
This group concerns me. I saw them in 2016 saying that they were voting for Trump in the hopes that the chaos he brought would change the system. Maybe you could have been fooled once into thinking this, but one would think seeing the result would make people realize that Trump's chaos wouldn't bring positive change.
Unfortunately, I'm now seeing people saying they'll vote for Trump in 2024 in order to somehow change the Democratic party. A vote for Trump won't change the Democratic party to make them better, though.
If Trump gets elected, he'll target the heads of the Democratic party and imprison them. He might allow the Democrats to continue to exist as an "other" to blame all bad things on. (Why did the economy just crash? It's those Democrats again!) But Trump won't allow the Democratic party to be an actual threat to his power, though.
It will be like opposition parties in Russia. They exist, but if they gain any traction, their leaders are suddenly arrested or have "accidents."
Voting for Trump in 2024 won't mean you get better options from the Democrats in 2028. It would mean you don't get any options but Vote Trump Again or Prison.
That’s far too broad of a brush to paint with. Don’t do that.
Also, that sword has two edges: the Nazis aren’t afraid of the rest of us anymore because they’ve realized there’s actually a decent number of latent Nazis around the country, and now they’re coordinating with each other, and that’s a problem.
In other news: the Republican Party is full of Republicans.
It's crazy the modern GOP is so beholden to a terrorist minority in their ranks that those people are the ones calling the shots in both the electorate and in congress.
They are the party that has branded themselves tough on crime and usually the loudest about not negotiating with terrorists, but when they end up with terrorists in their own ranks they fully capitulate, roll over, goose step, bark like a dog, fall in line and cede complete control to the whims of their worst and most reactive members. A full display of weakness and lack of principle for everyone to see, yet they still take themselves with grave sincerity. If Monty Python had done it, it would have been too over the top, just facetious, but here we are.
I'm officially compassion fatigued. 8 years... Your comment broke the camel's back. No. They aren't beholden to anything. They ARE terrorists. We need to start being real. They're making their moves now.
Yeah I fully consider the Republican party a domestic terrorist organization. That's precisely what they are.
The ones who aren't actively trying to overthrow the current govt and install a theocratic leader are 100% on-board with letting others do the dirty work.
It's not a minority these days. This is the mainstream Republican party.
It's the majority in their ranks.
They could either lose elections or move towards the middle, or court far right extremists. They chose the latter and I have no pity for them. The House shows pretty clearly the party is falling apart.
You can't swing a cat in Iowa without hitting a bigot.
I'd like to invest in your bigot detecting cats, please and thank you.
Disgusting fucking losers in the GOP.
Sounds like our blood is already poisoned and we need some new blood.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Hey they call themselves 'patriots' too.... so technically...
It's a great hate-speech phrase to antagonize, and to call for something primal in people. Where did he lift it? Comparing your enemies to a disease is as old as public speeches. And is really a good showcase how the public there degraded, as they find it relateable. It's really something tribal.
Imagine me saying all trump voters are genetic failures or just untermesch. That they are a biological waste that needs to be dealt with. That they are traitors to their kind for the fact they still breath.
You'd hurry up to downvote and call me names, rightfully, because there's some set culture of not going that far into dark ages, to have a basic level of empathy. There are institutions, the people who'd show you that you can't call for erasing ginger women for they are totally witches. It calls for something animal, an existiential threat, a fight or flight response, and it's a very worrying thing.
It taps exactly in a place in your psyche, where you throw a spear at anything coming close. And it doesn't ends there. People nodding to that now would react more extreme in other more casual situations.
It's a pandemic of violence. This dehumanization doesn't end, it grows onto other groups one dislikes, and just one argument then can end in a gunfight. And it would take so much time to heal.
To add:
We in Russia suffer the same fait. Although my group of people mostly denounce that ridiculous war and cringe at those celebrating it, I notice, how casual hate and insecurity about your surroundings slip everywhere. Anecdotal case: I remember like 3 cases of bus drivers driving away from people running to them at the bus stop in years, and now I have at least one each month when this late person literally knocks at the door when it drives out, I had one today. One another school shooting case making news. One another case of someone pulling a gun onto random persons.
The societal psyche is deeply harmed by any public hate-speech. It affects everyone, and it affects me when I start to cross the road and a SUV running on red light nearly avoids me, once again, or that I'm more insecure of persons randomly asking me for a lighter, or middle-eastern men just walking around although I'm the one to get banned for despising racism locally. Even though I don't subscribe to it, I take the fruits of that. These deep fears that we should've learned to avoid, especially of all kinds of 'other ones', they thrive in that climate. Even if not by agitation itself, but by it's subproducts, like if you hear about a MAGA masshooter, you'd then be more likely to have a gun yourself, and to react agressively to a likely intruder. It escalates, it makes everyone hostile, and brings so much deaths one may want to vomit.
There should be measures in place to de-secalate it on the state level. I doubt my own state would want that, since it's a fuel for conscription and they don't care about what can happen after them ("let there be fire after we quit" is a national meme), but would yours do that? I still have a ghostly hope to immigrate, so I'm kinda involved in not exchanging one burning bag of shit for another. And having the most mil and gun-spending country being overtaken by ghouls like trump makes it unsafe everywhere. This opportunist can start a WW3 if it'd save him a comfy place im the office. With the great force, comes the dead uncle Ben, and it shouldn't be like that.
And what my ranting ass wanted to say: americans have a vision of themselves in regular mass shootings, have an example of russia as a promise, and have a tool to make it slightly better by putting the ballot in the box. Why won't they? You can see 'murican sense of self-respect on Reddit. Why won't they selfrespect themselves enough to eradicate hate speech in the prime time to be sure their kids won't be shot by a random broken kid. Having a post-perenatal abortion by the AR at eleven years feels more untimely than one done at the seventh week, that's what I say.
Imagine me saying all trump voters are genetic failures or just untermesch.
Let's be real though, if you've ever seen a rally up close that's an EASY sell.
If you’re racist and you know it, clap your hands!
In other news, 58% of GOP caucusgoers are liars.
They would have absolutely loved this Hitler guy.
I guess dog whistles are a thing of the past? People can just go around saying whatever they want and not have to worry about being shamed for being openly racist. Like internet comment sections have spilled out into real life.
We don't use dog whistles because we aren't racist pieces of shit.
They don't use dog whistles because they prefer to be honest about their racism.
They are not the same.
Stupid racist fucks.
Fucking stop with the poll articles.
Well, yes, republicans are disgusting traitor filth.
42% of GOP voters, tbh I'm surprised it's not like 70% or something like that.