Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?

TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Society has to acknowledge that half of its members are of below average intelligence. And we need a way to handle the lowest tenth, since they are a danger to themselves and others.

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• Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Moron is no longer enough. Republican voters at this point are malicious, not stupid, not poor gullible fools, they are malicious people who actively seek to harm others, no matter how ‘nice’ they may seem.

  I am not interested in hearing about how someone knows a Republican who is such a nice pleasant person, willing to help just about anyone, kind, caring, etc. It is a mask, like that of…I forget the precise medical term, either psychopath or sociopath. But the irony is they are worse because they do have the capacity for empathy, but they choose not to.

  And this is, and always has been, who they are. This is not new. This is exactly who they have always been, people who, if they lived in a different time, would happily own slaves, or watch someone tortured for the evening’s entertainment at the coliseum, or any number of such things.

  That’s the people we’re dealing with, and they are a significant portion of the population as they always have been.

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I am tired of people saying trumptards are “misguided” or some bullshit like that. If you voted for him in 2016, sure, you could have been misled

  I’ve watched my in-laws change since they first voted red in 2016. Their reasoning at the time was that Obama didn’t reach across the isle enough so they voted trump. The other option was Hillary Clinton, and Trump said some weirdly populist stuff that made him further left than her on some matters, so can ya really blame them?

  But since then their critical thinking skills have declined so much, their comfort with risk has increased significantly, and their ability to empathize has dropped like lead. They’ve also shown their true colors in having zero willingness to make even the smallest changes to plans to account for severe allergies or their special needs grandkids (and refuse to see the obvious mental illness and distress in some of their family too)

  Quite frankly, Trump’s base is a cult of personality. These poor souls need to be deprogrammed and taught once again how to think critically, and probably temporarily disconnected from social media and cable news

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  • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know how democrat reeducation camps are a conspiracy theory of the right, but for these people it actually needs to exist. They will not become normal again without them

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• Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  3. Everybody against everybody off a ledge, means the weirdest turd of a bully floats to the top.

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