Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It? Republicans can insult half the country without consequence. Democrats say “deplorables” once and never hear the end of it.
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Trump Keeps Attacking Americans. Why Does He Get Away With It? Republicans can insult half the country without consequence. Democrats say “deplorables” once and never hear the end of it.
Source: Aggravating_Money992
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Because everything in this county is a double standard. To be fair trump talks shit about his own supporters, America, and the military constantly. It’s just simply okay when he does it because Trump supporters love him more than their own families.
Because we’ve lost the cold war. Now foreign influence is the enemy within and is our own government.
We arent gonna vote our way out of this one guys.
Because the right is acting in bad faith.
Stop expecting them to be reasonable people.
Democrats need to get used to “never hearing the end of it” and being fine with that. Don’t waste energy giving 💩 💩what criticism Trump supporters direct at you. Wear it like a badge of honor.
Hilary was right. She was so right.
I live in Canada and we have our own trump like behaviour up here and because of it I never believe a conservative when they say anything, wheather its a politician, supporter or talking point. Its always an empty talking point meant to rile up and divide. I just don’t listen to them. My neighbour is big on PP and all he does complain about everything. I just nod my head and go inside, its not worth the breath to reply. Every argument, discussion or “solution” is in bad faith with these people and not enough people realize this. They dont care about you pointing out their hypocrisy, they don’t care about your witty and pithy replies or clapbacks, and its because they dont care about you, or anything really, just power and wealth.
Shifting baseline syndrome, but instead of ecology in the natural world, its the ecology of the political discourse
Right wing media and social-media. It’s non-stop propaganda/lies and it’s brain-washed/corrupted a large portion of the country. The obscenely-wealthy keep these nutters blaming everyone but the 1% who are robbing us all blind.
For once in my life, I’d love to see a prominent Democrat call-out the Republican portion of the country for its shitty standard of living. You name a quality of life measure – divorce rates, economic opportunity, maternal morbidity, educational access, income, children born out of wedlock, environmental protection – and it’s the same shithole Republican-dominated states at the bottom of the rankings. Meanwhile, not shockingly, the Democratically-dominated states consistently have the best quality of life.
I’d *love* for a Democrat to point this out and ask swing voters point-blank, without apologizing: who in their fucking right mind would look at this very clear pattern and go into the voting booth saying “gee, shucks, I want our country to be more like Alabama or Mississippi, hyuk hyuk!”
And they need to say it without backing down or apologizing; this is seen by voters as WEAK. Force this conversation. The numbers don’t lie: if you want shitty living conditions, you vote Republican.
Because this country is center right. We all know it. Republicans get more leeway with the American people by default.
It’s because, and I seriously men this, they think they are just fundamentally superior human beings. They think that they’re God’s children and democrats are demons. They think everything they do is good but it’s what God would’ve wanted and everything we do is bad because God hates us
The term is diffusion of responsibility, a phenomenon where people feel less personal responsibility to act because they assume others will. This occurs because in a group, individuals believe that someone else is either responsible for taking action
Maybe it has to do with regime-friendly right wing oligarchs controlling the lions share of the media.
It all boils down to empathy. Trump supporters lack this emotion and are inherently selfish. It allows them to laugh at others pain and squeal like a gutted pig if they’re called a mean name. Cognitive dissonance is also a huge factor that allows Conservatives to dismiss fact-based arguments with whataboutism and other blatant deflections.
MAGA only cares about one thing: upsetting the libs. They will condone any behavior/rhetoric that insults and offends democrats. It’s just that simple.
They’re ruining their lives, and the lives of their children, to own the libs.
Bill Maher (I know a lot of you probably hate him) put it really well. Paraphrased, he pointed out that a Democrat might do something kinda bad. Then, later, a Republican does something similar, but *way* worse, and when Democrats criticize, Republicans say “but you guys did it first!”
It happens every. Single. Time. Any criticism of Trump is met with whataboutism, and although Democrats are hardly perfect and do some bad things sometimes, they’re rarely – if ever – on the same scale as what Trump is doing on a daily basis. Democrats have to be absolutely flawless, because if they aren’t, Republicans will use those mistakes to justify literally anything Trump does.
Because the US military are a bunch of fucking traitors and cowards allowing it to happen.
The republicans have declared war on America and they’re going to order the military to kill millions of Americans.
Liberals really need to stop with the concession on “both sides.”
Calling them deplorable was correct. That’s not equivalent to the President’s decade of hate towards the left.
Welcome to fascism, a key part of this is base of support that buys into lies, alternative history and their own self-affirming reality, the sense of being the victims while they are the perpetrators of the crimes they call foul about. The sense of being the hero while all recognize them as the villain and chalking it up to a conspiracy against them and their righteous cause. No amount of opposition from anywhere in the world can address the cognitive dissonance, they need to come to the realization on their own and most don’t want to. Introspection would potentially cause a realization that they indeed are “the baddies”.
Because democrats didnt double down. Simple as that. Hillary should have said ‘Fuck yeah they are deplorable and anyone who says different can suck my fat cl**. Stop fucking your sisters and get in the basket you fat ret**** ‘.
Guarantee that would have gone over smoother than backing down from it and framing it as some kind of gaffe.
Endless propaganda on consolidated media
Come on, there’s no double-standard. That’s woke nonsense. Republicans would have been unconcerned, for example, if Obama had sent in the National Guard and assumed control of law enforcement in Texas.
See, the secret is hypocrisy, lying and the fact that their base has the memory of a goldfish.
Because 80% of all MSM is GOP run. Then all the foreign bots…
Read one Russian dystopian novel and it all makes sense.
Those who are vulnerable to propaganda believe that Russian tanks at their borders mean they are there to help them, so they welcome them. Same thing here. It doesn’t just happen abroad.
Because Hillary called them deplorables. They *think* Trump is 💩💩 on the people they hate, so it’s ok. The cognitive dissonance is real with them and the don’t realize he’s 💩💩 on his own supporters too.
Here’s my very dumb 2 cents about how the democrats need to move forward. Stop with the corporate nice speak and get real. Trump went low and took half the country with him, you can’t just speak to people from a high horse and assume theyll lift themselves up to meet you there. Sometimes to bring people up, you have to go down and get them. Speak brash and a language they’ve been used to and slowly move towards a better normalcy.
Consequences are only for normal people.