Nick Kristoff -Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Demean Trump Voters
[T]he liberal impulse has been to demonize anyone at all sympathetic to Donald Trump as a racist and bigot. This has been politically foolish, for it’s difficult to win votes from people you’re ...
I read most of that thread.
There is zero understanding about what motivates Trump voters, and their side does an excellent job of weaving a narrative that prevents them from humanizing their opposition. All they have is moral posturing, all done from a good guy bad buy dynamic, with them as the heros of their own story. You can see this in the reaction to some of the posters who leave comments who obviously still have empathy for the Trump voter PoV. What do they get in response? Pure vitriol, and social shaming.
It's a cult, no other way to say it.
It truly is a cult. That thread was astonishing for me to read.
What's exceptionally annoying about people like this is, you'll see it on reddit, they think this exact same way about Trump voters. I've been wrapping my head around this mentality for awhile to understand why they think this way and what it is they'll believe total falsehoods about Trump or the out of context quotes and then not understand why they get told to fuck off.
I think that's what it boils down to, then they go back to groups like that for positive reinforcement. If Trump ends up winning despite all the cheating going on they're going to be in for a massive shock and we're probably going to see a lot more family drama and break up which they'll inevitably blame Trump voters for with zero self-awareness.
Because the left employs projection as a weapon.
Quite often that's the case, but I keep an eye on how they talk to each other occasionally because it's important, they really seem to believe this which is how you know that logic will never win against them and the right is wasting their time on it. Logic will never win against people who's ideology revolves around emotive feeling rather than facts.
Why do they have such an urge to be the hero, or even just "good guys"? I don't care if people think I'm a good person. That's between me and God. Leftists are obsessed with being on the right side. There must be some deep psych issues.
Leftists know they're not the "good guys". This is what frustrates them so much.
The alternative is having nihilism take over as they realize they're insignificant specks of dust in an uncaring universe. Not everyone can become an Ubermensch.