Do you think Republican voters are as stupid as their Congresspeople and Senators think they are?

[kentuck]

I don't.

I think many of them saw what happened at our Capitol and were as shocked as you and I. They are not all part of the Trump cult, in my opinion.

Elected Republicans are making a blunder of massive proportion if they think they can pull the wool over all their voters' eyes. Their voters may remain Republicans but they will not vote for "these" Republicans.

They are not stupid. They are as American as you and I. They love their country and they are shocked at what they see. I truly believe that.

Although there are efforts to re-educate them by FOX News and propaganda outlets and Trump stooges, it will not succeed.

If we make it to 2022, we will see an overhaul of the House and Senate unlike any we have ever seen, in my opinion.

[Proud liberal 80]

1. Stupid? No...Racist on the other hand? Yes

[ananda]

18. Also, don't forget greed and entitlement.

That can also have a racist component but
not always.

[Proud liberal 80]

22. You are right

They are either racist, greedy, entitled, or tribal (like another poster said), or any of theses things combined.

[calguy]

2. In a word ......

YES!

[kentuck]

3. Reports are that many of them are already leaving the Party.

I think we make a mistake if we try to generalize too much.

[msfiddlestix]

4. I disagree

If they weren't, they would be rising up against their congress members and Senators and demand their resignations or at best demand they did the right thing. So far, I haven't seen any evidence of that happening.

[exboyfil]

6. It is actually the opposite

They seem to want to run the Representatives out the door who voted for impeachment or voted for certification.

[msfiddlestix]

21. oh, i must have misunderstood what I was reading..

I should have at least waited to have my coffee, clear out the fog and fuz ..

I get you now that I have my cup o' jo.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I hope you are correct about 2022. I have been appalled at the number of Republicans

who have gone along with Trumpian policies. This applies to voters and elected officials. They have exhibited cult like behavior and continue to put party over country.

It makes me wonder how much dirt Trump, Bannon and Stone have on members of Congress to keep them in line.

[kentuck]

7. I do not believe 74 million Republicans were all part of the Trump cult.

The Republican cult, perhaps? But not the Trump cult of personality.

I think they voted for Republicans more than they voted for Trump.

They could lose a large number of those voters if they continue to cling to the Trump Party, in my opinion.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. My friend believes that many Trump voters won't come out to vote if he isn't on the ticket.

She makes a good point, which goes along with yours.

[ariadne0614]

19. My own inquiring mind keeps returning to Ron Johnson's July 4th Moscow trip.

Is there a connection between that and the Russian hack of the DNC and RNC? We still don't know what Vlad did with the RNC dirt.

"It makes me wonder how much dirt Trump, Bannon and Stone have on members of Congress to keep them in line."

[Irish_Dem]

25. They traveled for one thing. Cash.

No other explanation makes sense.

[Cosmocat]

8. Not "stupid" but 100% tribal as fuck

Decades, of right wing brain washing of the evil liberal boogyman has left them completely distance from reality, reason and decency.

Many Rs are plenty "smart" but even smart people are not immune to the effects of relentless gaslighting.

It is 100% predicable at this this point.

Right wing media/elected officials spew some crazy shit to keep them cranked up, they swallow it whole, right wing elected officials use the excuse that their zombie base will eat them alive if they don't do the next horrible thing, rinse and repeat.

[MaryMagdaline]

9. Yes

[underpants]

10. Yes. It basically took an intervention for them to clue in

You could make an analogy to their house being taken for them to realize what they are doing, what they were supporting.

[riversedge]

11. I would like to believe your post but just can't at this time. Yes, many have left

the Repug Party---changed their Registrations. --I posted that article yesterday or the day before.


But. Actually I really do not know. Some will leave but will they leave in significant numbers?

[sciencescience]

13. Yes, 72 percent of Republican voters believed Biden's win was illegitimate

https://www.newsweek.com/most-republicans-dispute-joe-biden-election-win-poll-1565041

[Paladin]

14. Without a doubt. (nt)

[sop]

15. Cruelty, not stupidity, is the shared trait among Republican voters today, and candidates who

embody and mirror this cruelty seem to be the most successful. Judging from the current crop of Republicans in power, their voters prefer despicable pricks and assholes...so long as they hurt the "right people."

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

16. They don't think they are stupid.

They know it for a fact.

All Republicans watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh, and believe both as set in stone truth. That is the epitome of stupid.

What good has the Republican party done for the US, and the people of the US, the environment of the planet? Nothing. Nada. Nichts. Zero. Zilch. Actually less than zero. They are not constructive, they are destructive.

And yet the brainwashed disciples of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Donald Trump continue to vote for their own demise by the tens of millions. That's as f**king stupid and lacking in common sense as it gets.

Being American doesn't mean that they aren't stupid. Not being part of the Trump cult doesn't mean they aren't stupid, just less stupid than Trump worshipers. If they love their country so much, why did the overwhelming majority of them say absolutely nothing for 4 years while Trump tried to destroy the government, democracy, and the planet on his indisputable 4 year quest to establish himself as dictator of the US?

Like, what will they say? "Duh, we didn't know!" Now that's just plain flat out stupid.

Almost every Republican is a Nazi waiting to happen. The ones that aren't are as rare as Painite.

[MyOwnPeace]

17. YES!

EXHIBIT A: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)

[GoCubsGo]

20. For the most part, yes.

The ones who aren't stupid have been fleeing the party over the past four years. The problem is that they know what it takes to get those smart ones back into the fold.

[Voltaire2]

23. 40 years of escalating deliberate lying

and the supercharged effect of global platforms like twitter and more importantly facebook, and the emergence of state actors engaging in disinformation campaigns has changed everything.

Approximately 74 million voters, minus some unknown fraction, exist in a completely different reality from you and me. It isn't a matter of intelligence, although being uneducated in critical thinking helps. So what is that fraction, the part of the 74 million that was shocked enough by Jan6 to pop out of the bubble? 10%? 30%? all good guesses. Very likely much less than 50%.

As the events of Jan 6 get normalized, a process already well under way, the fraction 'out of the bubble' will shrink.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. Maybe not stupid, but they support and elect Republicans.

[Irish_Dem]

26. So far the answer is YES.

As long as these idiotic Qanon candidates are being elected to congress, the answer has to be yes.

[GeorgeGist]

27. 74.2 million of them are.

[jcgoldie]

28. They aren't stupid, they are racist

They are all in on the gambit. They don't believe that the election was stolen because they know that Trump spent four years playing to his base and pissing off any person of color or with an education... that's what they like about him. They are gaslighting just like their congresspeople who represent them. They have all decided thats better than dealing with the loss of white privilege and living in a truly multicultural society. They are even willing to overlook ransacking the capitol and killing a couple cops as long as its angry white people doing it in support of their cause.

[AmyStrange]

29. They may not be stupid, but...

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most of them have very little (if any) critical analysis skills.
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[doc03]

30. Not stupid they have been brainwashed by the right wing media nt