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[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This has been my anecdotal experience as well. Most of the time when I ask my Republican friends their opinions on specific policies I find that their views are very populist leaning toward socialist. They just happen to also be motivated by fear and easily swayed by propaganda and will readily vote against their own interests in exchange for a false sense of security.

They are then confused and frustrated when the scumbags they voted for do exactly what they said they would do and it turns out badly.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

What happens when you ask them such a policy, then ask them to tell you what they think the positives and negatives of that policy would be.

Only to then call it by the name they were conditioned to hate?

Would they become angry? Start rationalizing against the points they just made? Or accept their hate isn't justified?

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