• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    It basically boils down to teams. Do you abandon your baseball team because they suck? Nope, you cling to them like grim death. Trump is an incompetent senile psycho? Sure, but he’s “my team”. You’d have to abandon your identity to switch teams.

    When I talk to people I suspect are Trumpers (they never come right out to me) they go on about things like illegal immigrants. I just nod and think “How do they hurt you? You love having cheap labor working on your house. You’d never want one of the jobs they have.” Things that really effect them, like the economy or the massive class divide, don’t register with them.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      When I talk to people I suspect are Trumpers (they never come right out to me)

      The term for these people that I just love is “reactionary centrists”. Some of them will even claim to be “independents”, LOL, but the very minute you do even the bare minimum of asking a few questions, you usually find someone that has an entire array of Faux News style talking points just aching to come out…

      It describes them perfectly and simultaneously lampoons the bullshit narrative of a “center” in this country that the Democrats have, of course, drifted too far away from, because as everyone just knows, the Democrats are soooo extremist. So yeah, PEDOnald might be a pedo and a rapist and total con artist and have no idea how to do anything and is only out to enrich himself as he destroys the country, but the Democrats have the TRANS AGENDA and are aching to have doctors take away your son’s winky while he’s off at school!