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Originally Posted by Itse
It's honestly extremely hard to sympathize or understand Republican voters these days (and many other conservative voters, because the Republicans are hardly the only conservative party that has been going full loco in the last 20 years).
Sure, there have always been crazy people in every party making crazy suggestions, and there's always been some quotes that have either aged terribly or were terrible to begin with, but were said a decade+ ago. To some extent you have to learn to ignore that because it's not representative of the party as a whole.
That's not what's going on with the GOP. The outright crazy people with incredibly disturbing suggestions in that party are governors and senators and presidential candidates, and they are saying the crazy stuff in the official campaign rallies and the RNC. The list of people suggesting that they use violence against their opponents of start a civil war if they lose is worryingly long by now. Many of the "anti-trans" laws they've already passed in many states are just straight up undiluted fascism with zero caveats.
Yeah it's a big party and not everyone in it is crazy or dangerous, but the current leadership most certainly and very obviously is a danger to the basic functions and overall stability of the nation.
Of course we already live in incredibly effed up times. In my nerdy circles, a common joke these days is that most past dystopias are incredibly optimistic by today's standards. Back in 1979, Weyland-Utani might have been a ruthless corporation that would willingly sacrifice the lives of it's workers to smuggle an alien lifeform on to Earth for study, sure, but the least credible part of that movie today is that the crew are employees with a bonus system.
The crap that Republicans spew is so incredibly deranged that you could not have credibly put it in a satire in the 90's.
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I'm going to have to step up my questioning of my Republican female friends/colleagues. I mean, Trumpers are going to Trump, but how tf could any rational, thinking female even consider voting for these misogynistic, controlling ####s?
It's mind bottling