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Seeing as how the Republican Party is dead set on taking power in America, at the expense of the Country itself, are the people who vote for them ignorant of what is happening, or fascist racists themselves?
I know it's a little of both, but what percentages?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)samnsara
(17,635 posts)Lettuce Be
(2,336 posts)Many cannot break the "I've been Republican since ..." party line no matter if they want to. Others are simply being hoodwinked by leftwing media (FOX, OAN, etc.). I have family members that are still hanging on. Fear of socialism, that sort of thing. Idiots, but not horrible people, at least I don't think they are. Hard to say really.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)rightwing media, I believe.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Stupid is curable. But an education won't fix evil.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)any sense of discretionary intelligence.
Diamond_Dog
(32,063 posts)Plus the right wing propaganda machines work wonders on the uneducated and closed minded.
Dan
(3,579 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 27, 2021, 02:20 PM - Edit history (1)
In the days of legal Jim Crow. The educational system wasnt the best, but the teachers did what they could with the resources available to them.
What I find surprising in my later years are the number of White people of my age group, that lack a fundamental knowledge of our form of government. What Ive come to believe is that some White people who seem to have had all the educational opportunities just didnt take advantage of those opportunities. Some of them lacked basic knowledge of our past (Civil Right, Vietnam, etc.) and are somewhat incurious to the issues facing us today (Climate Change, etc.). It seems to me that unless an issue slaps them in the face, they are content to reside in their comfort zone and totally indifferent to other issues/concerns that we are facing. While I subscribe to that idea that some votes for Trump due to their racist feelings, Ive think a lot of it is due to their lack of critical thinking. They saw Trump on TV, he was portrayed as a successful millionaire and that was good enough for them.
Some are stupid, some are uneducated, some are just dumb, some are racist but as long as their comfort zone is not affected they will continue to do things that most on DU wouldnt do.
My thoughts.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)so let me correct that Brainwashed and Stupid... but now that I took half a second and thought about it, they go against everything they claim to stand for to support the likes of Trump and his ilk.. so with that.. Brainwashed, Stupid and Evil.. all bound up in a ball..
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)Timothy Snyder - Yale History Professor often featured on Maddow's and other MSNBC shows clarified an answer for me in his great full-page OpEd in the NY Times recently, The American Abyss. Here's a link. I don't know if there is a paywall.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html
He described two groups - breakers and gamers. Both are taking advantage of the dumpf political moment.
The guy with the horns in the Capitol - he's a breaker.
McConnell is a gamer.
I thought it made a lot of sense and has put the question to bed in my own mind.
edhopper
(33,615 posts)for later. Thanks
Bettie
(16,125 posts)a few are one or the other, but most of them are both.
KentuckyWoman
(6,692 posts)A few disappointments in life blamed on Democrats. A wrong headed idea that money and opportunity is taken from whites and handed to non whites who won't work. A generation of listening to pundits echoing those sentiments.
Raising the next generation who knows nothing but the toxic swill. Twisted into something almost unrecognizable.
They aren't all of them stupid. They aren't all evil.
Put some hope in their heart, a few bucks in their pocket and cut the flow of lies that gets out. The turn will not happen overnight but it can.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)"If judged by their effects, malice and stupidity are interchangeable."
Nululu
(842 posts)The one issue they care about trumps all others are another group.
Tree Lady
(11,491 posts)With either abortion, or having money and taxes, guns, white power.
The few republicans in my family its about taxes and money.
sanatanadharma
(3,728 posts)The conservative-republican voters are those with the least self-awareness and most self-consciousness.
They are deeply insecure in their identities and about their point of view.
This insecurity and doubt is covered up by irrational certainty in their delusions.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)cannot fathom that the world is moving on from their backward views.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Patterson
(1,531 posts)piddyprints
(14,648 posts)As far as percentages? I guess you can't have 100% of both, but it sure seems like that's what they are.
And to top it off, they're also self-righteous.
quickesst
(6,283 posts)Those two words Define the majority. They know right from wrong, moral from immoral, and good from evil. It all boils down to their hatred of the left no matter the price. They will forsake their country, they will forsake their family, and they will forsake their friends if it means there is even a remote possibility to "STICK IT TO.THE DEMS/LIBS". It is a big reason why they embrace even the wackiest of conspiracy theories. Anyway. That's my assessment.
ananda
(28,876 posts)They have completely lost their minds
and their humanity.
Mary in S. Carolina
(1,364 posts)I think the GOP knows exactly who they are targeting for brainwashing:
1. During the Reagan years, many, many farmers lost their family farms in North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, etc yet most still vote Republican. Why?
2. The Republicans broke the many unions and drove business out of Ohio, Wisconsin, etc, yet most still vote Republican. Why?
3. During the Bush years, the great recession caused millions to lose their homes, yet many still vote republican. Why
3. The Catholic Church molested children, but people still attend the Catholic Church. Why?
The GOP can do anything they want to these voters (steal their farms, jobs, homes and innocence). The GOP exploits these voters by targeting them using algorithms - just my opinion.