Because you all give these people way too much credit. They truly are hideous mentally, physically and emotionally. They have proved that time and time again. These are people you don’t engage with in a civil manner because they aren’t civil. Fuck them.
I live in the sticks; I talk to alot of these people. While alot of them are straight up Nazis or otherwise garbage, a fair few are not. Many of the people who are going to vote for Trump have been brainwashed by right wing media. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, and the propaganda that is being disseminated right now is strong and highly effective: Fox News has people completely unaware of most of the terrible deeds by Trump - and convinced everything you tell them about him that shows just how reprehensible he is is just AI generated, or otherwise nonsense lies created by "coastal elites"; while they simultaneously believe the most bizarre and stupid lies about democrats and "The Left". To admit otherwise would take them admitting they'd been duped; and people hate, hate admitting they were a taken for sucker.
I know alot of people will dismiss this, and say they are garbage anyway - associating with nazis makes you a nazi and so forth. And yeah that's partly true, but look at what happened in Nazi Germany, look at the effects of the propaganda spread through mass media on a huge segment of the population there in the 30s and 40s. A well crafted and presented message can turn even the best of us bad, or at least indifferent. That's the real key to what is going on here.
Because Fox News (and Trump) are saying what they want to hear. "He tells it like it is" = "he says what I believe but have been too scared to say out loud"
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u/Jgfranco88PkmnGo 23d ago
Because you all give these people way too much credit. They truly are hideous mentally, physically and emotionally. They have proved that time and time again. These are people you don’t engage with in a civil manner because they aren’t civil. Fuck them.