• bizarroland@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    And, their views typically do not include the things that most of the people I know hate the most about the platform that they ascribe to.

    They just think being Republican will make them wealthier or fix problems in the country or make the world a better place.

    The single issue voters have an opinion on a single issue and everything else doesn’t matter compared to that one thing.

    They don’t care about all of the bad as long as the single bit of good can be accomplished, and they don’t care if you think that single bit of good is a bad thing.

    They don’t care to talk to or be dissuaded by their family members who are not approaching them with a spirit of love and care for them.

    Beside that, it’s not mentally or emotionally healthy to live spring-loaded with ontological traps that can be fired off with a single phrase to bring down judgment and the fires of hell on the people you meet.

    They’re not going to want to hear you if that’s what you’re bringing to the table.

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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      16 days ago

      Of course, after Trump in the white house, it’s kinda irrelevant.

      Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
      That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
      They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?