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  • Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    9 months ago

    I’m in my 40s and I honestly still don’t understand the appeal of the GOP to the average American. I have never seen them put forth a policy that does not seem to be shitting on one group or another. What has the GOP done in the last 40 years to make the average citizens life better?

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      shitting on one group or another

      That’s the whole point. They’re the party of oppression, and the people that follow that party believe that those groups should be oppressed.

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      9 months ago

      That’s the interesting thing they don’t. They typically do the best they can to make lives worse for their constituents and they’ll be happy about it as long as the “others” are getting fucked over more than they are.

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      9 months ago

      That they hate some of all the other people the consevative voters hate, and they are happy to starve if the group they hate starve too.

      It is a stupid premise I know, but you can see posts about evil things the gop does, and somehow “centrists” find a way to blame the democrats for that.

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        9 months ago

        I think that is actually true. The average poor republican doesn’t want to be wealthy, if that would mean that <insert minority of your choice> would also become more wealthy or have more rights. This also applies to other political subjects. I mean a poor republican who works a terribly paying job with no worker rights or healthcare would actively vote against politicians who say they’d want to change that situation, just to make sure that underage girls that got raped are forced to give birth to their unwanted childs they then can’t provide for.

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          9 months ago

          It is sad, but I also agreed with that.

          Not sure why they are like that but as long as the ones they hate also suffer the conservatives are ok.

          But they never stop to see an alternative where anyone has to suffer.

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        9 months ago

        Its partly like that but its MORE so that they are utterly convinced that all thier troubles including that they are poor is some other groups fault, and even when they do have doubts they are unable to express them without fear of losing thier status in thier in-group. So they will keep on voting against thier own interests and blaming the wrong people for the results.