Comment on Common Ground
NotLemming@lemm.ee 5 days agoThey have plausible deniability. Some of them truly think trump doesn’t mean most of what he says because he’s trolling. They have poor critical thinking skills, so they aren’t able to take a lot of information and pick out the truth. That’s also why they copy each other. They want the easy solutions.
They need to be given an appealing way back to sanity. We need them and they need us.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I guess I feel like being a decent human being should be an appealing enough way. Even if they thought he was joking, what he was joking about wasn’t funny. They were fine risking him, at the very least, being their mouth piece. Saying they were lied to removes the responsibility. It doesn’t make them inherently bad people, but they need to admit they made a mistake (if that’s what they truly believe) and want to come back into sanity because it’s right, not because they feel bad that it’s now their eggs and Medicaid that’s being fucked with.
NotLemming@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I think maybe that’s the best we could hope for. They can’t take responsibility and now they think its fine to lie and obscure, to gaslight like he does. He’s a public figure who is allergic to accountability and has no shame. Should they be expected to behave better than he does, when he’s like the Teflon man, no consequences stick and he just goes and plays golf, posts pics of himself in a crown as democracy dies?
If anything can make them turn against him and at least fake giving a sh*t or having morality then I’m all for it. Let’s massage their egos and welcome them.