They got tricked by the dumbest most obvious zero carisma con man.
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I disagree. The one thing he's good at is conning people with his voice. It's his superpower. It doesn't work on everyone, it works on me sometimes. It's hard to admit, but it's true.
It's a thing a lot of narcissists are good at. I'm curious how the numbers break down with people's resistance to his voice vs general narcissists. I generally assume my immunity comes from my having had a narcissistic father and having bad mental reactions whenever someone starts the narcissist charm. Others are just immune, and then there's folks like you who feel it but can resist it.
And I should clarify it's not magic or anything, the personality disorder just takes advantage of how our social brains are wired, it's not even the only personality disorder to do that.
They didn't get tricked.
He promised them brutality and he delivered on that promise.
Kinda is his own fault. Shouldn't watch a single news channel like fox.
yep. right wing white trash IS the most easily manipulated group of people
Decades of erosion of public education ensures that they're not media savvy and don't have critical thinking skills. Mix in some disinformation (Fox "News") and fear of the other, now you've got a jelly-brained MAGA moron.
If moron Republicans were capable of learning the Republican party would have ceased to exist after Bush's two illegal wars, torture and crashing the economy.
Or Trump's stealing, raping, crashing the economy and mismanagement of a pandemic and trying TO OVERTHROW THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
.....
These people do not learn, they are not serious and trying to "reach them" is a waste of time.
I know in your liberal heart you want to BELIEVE they have learned now and suddenly won't be massive racists assholes... Don't fall for it again...
Our efforts need to be on reaching people that DO NOT VOTE and have abandoned the system completely, we need to get to them that democracy is an active process and you need to engage to keep it going.
I give ZERO shits and have ZERO compassion left for Trump voters.
If they want back into society they need to actually DO SOMETHING about the mess they have caused, not just whine how now suddenly they are sorry...
If moron Republicans were capable of learning the Republican party would have ceased to exist after Bush
So much of the Bush Era Republican Party is just infested into the Democrats now.
wow. some of you left wing extremists should have told him or something. jeez.
He was a fucking liar and conman when you voted for him, you dipshit.
But this time he promised!
The belated insights of the gullible. How useful.
Congratulations on taking 10+ fucking years to figure that one out, dude.
The worst part is this stupid asshole won't acknowledge that everyone else is right and has been all along - it's "You just happened to be right, but MY special conclusion now, happening now, is the only logical way to have concluded this."
I don't have any sympathy for a voter dumb enough and conservative enough to vote for Trump three times in a row.
I think we should have sympathy. Better late than never, and nothing will ever change if people aren't allowed to learn and grow.
MAGA is a community, and a lot of MAGAtards are only there for the community. If progressives aren't willing to accept personal growth, there is no reason for them to grow.
Progressives need to take the high road and welcome the MAGAts who have finally seen the light.
An eye for an eye only creates blindness. Someone needs to stop the cycle.
I know what you're saying is probably the best course of action. But they are so disingenuous I just cannot trust them. Their entire basis of voting for him was out of selfishness and hate.
If I were Brad Pitt at the end of Seven, I would absolutely pull that trigger. I'm sorry.
Sympathy for what though? He's not a victim, so what is there to sympathiz about?
It's a community in the same way fans of a TV show are. Parasocial at most. Shared imbecility, more probably.
Did he actually learn anything or is he just going to vote for the next fascist with an R next to their name?
It's very likely that they don't learn what they aren't thaught. You don't teach anything if there is no contact, and moments like this are opportunities for contact.
Yesyes, I get it, it's not your job to teach them. The issue is though that nobody else will, except of course propagandists on the right who are happy to teach them.
Here's the thing though the entire internet is available for them to learn things themselves. It shouldn't be our job to teach them anything.
If we want the world to be a better place than it absolutely is our job. Conservatives see it as a job to brainwash and create propaganda.
We should see it as a job to bring these people back from the edge, and to reintegrate them with society. Ignoring them, and blaming them, will continue to make the problem worse.
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