
posts like this unintentionally do SO much harm tbh.… and the irony is that this kind of dialogue is part of the reason we’re in the situation we’re in now. i understand this post is ultimately criticizing trump, but if i didn’t have a word limit (and a limited attempt at keeping ur attention) i could explain exactly why this is so dangerous
i don’t understand why people don’t think that republican rhetoric is literally anti-evolution and maintaining rigid social norms and policies that overwhelmingly negatively affect people in a diverse ever changing country. they are a party ruled by fear and have incredibly strong correlations with racism and patriarchal values. i don’t like democrats because they behave similarly behind the scenes and lack the balls to do their jobs .
If anyone is hateful it’s democrats. They literally loot and riot and are always calling people the other side of the political isle racist and fascist without having any evidence to back themselves up. 11% of people who identify as “very liberal” say that killing someone who has different political beliefs is justified compared to only 3% of people who are “very conservative.” If that’s not hate I don’t know what is.
So you’re just gonna conveniently ignore how the young republicans group chat got leaked where they word for word advocated for gassing people to death and liking hitler? Or called rape epic. Or how someone literally tried to murder LGBTQ people for making fun of charlie kirk? Or what about Trump pardoning people who admitted to beating police officers on jan 6?
whether you like it or not, a LOT of recent maga people owe their extremism to the left. people tend to have innate opinions on certain things (that are often politicalized unfortunately) and one of those is the belief in diversity of opinion. there are varying degrees to this, its not necessarily about the right to have a hateful opinion (tho it is for some) but to have any opinion that differs from the majority. some people believe to their core that this should be protected (im not one of
those btw) but these people have been picked up by the republican party in mass since 2019. they truly believe the culture they observe on the internet reflects reality, so when they see posts like this that generalize and demonize all republicans (a party that existed long before trump) they get pushed further and further right. its unfortunate but true -someone who lives in a VERY maga city, and who’s spent the past 6 years watching maga brainwash her parents and has made it her personal