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Many Republican voters are actually bad people that are racist or misogynist, or incredibly dumb, or incredibly selfish, or a combination.
The conservative machine that owns everything has fully captured their audience through the greatest propaganda system in the history of the world, and it's been wildly successful. Fox, Newsmax, OANN, TPUSA, and others, all funded by Heritage, CPAC, and many many venture capital extremists like Peter Thiel, Andreeson Horowitz and others.
Many Republican voters are actually bad people that are racist or misogynist, or incredibly dumb, or incredibly selfish, or a combination.
Dumb & Selfish are required, plus at least one of racist and misogynist.
the greatest propaganda system in the history of the world
It beats out every religion?
Yes. I would argue that with the technology as it is, it's wayyy more efficient at getting a large group of people to act in a certain way.
Gutenberg press gave us protestantism, the TV gave us prosperity gospel.
I don't believe anyone is a "bad person". This is a subjective value. I think people are misguided, mislead and traumatized. It is possible for these people to have been some other way if they had been given a good education or had been protected from trauma/allowed to process their trauma.
Capitalism has traumatized us all. Don't let it divide the proletariat.
Yeah I'm not gonna get into the whole Problem of Evil debate. In this case I'm saying a bad person is one who values only themselves to the detriment of everyone else, and in practice these racist, misogynist fearful bigots are doing actions that harm others, so they're bad people.
Yeah but those values develop in response to a world that doesn't value them. So most people realize that the world doesn't care about them, so they come to the conclusion that they shouldn't care about other people. It's actually not unreasonable.
It takes a real mature person to understand that those behaviors are the result of the system and to think that the system needs changing.
What I'm saying is I think it's possible for these people to be redeemed. We have to give of ourselves more than we'll get back to teach the world that there are other ways of being that aren't selfish. And everyone has to be included in that future version of the world.
Oh there are definitely people who aren't coming back from this cult. I watch "The Necessary Conversation" podcast on youtube and the MAGA parents are fully gone. Until Newsmax gets [redacted] the ruling elite has a solid hold on the cult.
We can debate the percentages of MAGA that are still redeemable, but it's much lower than you'd hope.
Even after Germany was defeated, the people who resisted were still generally looked at with disdain
As unpopular as the opinion is, I cannot and will not distinguish between incompetence and malice. Incompetence isn’t making a mistake, it’s making the same mistakes repeatedly and never learning from them. Incompetence requires malice.
