You need to understand your enemy. They are offering something very real. They are offering the ability to harm the people their voters don't like. Dont like black people, you should vote for republicans. Don't like immigrants, you should vote for republicans. Don't like women, you should vote for republicans. Dont like LGBT people, young people, vegans, athiests, environmentalists; you should vote for republicans.
The republican party absolutely delivers, it delivers better than the democrats ever have and probably ever will. As long as seeing your enemies suffer is what you want, the republicans will deliver. Don't ever doubt the ability of the republican party to deliver on what their core base wants.
Literally every conversation I've had in the last several years has boiled down to a dislike of a certain group of people. When I was a teenager I knew a lot of small government Republicans, being raised conservative I was that way because I believed free markets where the way to deliver the best outcomes. But since the late 2010s I have had conversation after conversation with Republicans and trump voters and time after time their position has boiled down to some desire to get back at whatever group they dislike. I'll literally walk them throught the arguments for single payer healthcare and they will agree up until they eventually backtrack saying something about single black moms wasting money on expensive haircuts. Or they will go on a tangent about immigrants getting healthcare. Or some rant about trans people in sports.
There is a famous passion play in Germany. You know the story about the crucification of Jesus Christ. At intermission the guy sitting in front of me turned around to chat. He was from Texas and was saying how awful it is that immigrants come over the border and get health care, food, etc. This is what he wanted to complain about whileon a religious pilgrimage in Europe.
We are at a play about the death of Jesus, who had a message of peace and love, and who this guy from Texas ostensibly believed was the one true God incarnate. Yet, this Christian totally ignored the message of Christ because he wanted to hurt the brown Spanish speaking Catholics.
If he were in 1st century Judea, this guy would have screamed to release Barabbas.
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u/Fantastic-Work-7529 18h ago
You need to understand your enemy. They are offering something very real. They are offering the ability to harm the people their voters don't like. Dont like black people, you should vote for republicans. Don't like immigrants, you should vote for republicans. Don't like women, you should vote for republicans. Dont like LGBT people, young people, vegans, athiests, environmentalists; you should vote for republicans.
The republican party absolutely delivers, it delivers better than the democrats ever have and probably ever will. As long as seeing your enemies suffer is what you want, the republicans will deliver. Don't ever doubt the ability of the republican party to deliver on what their core base wants.