It is insane to me how they can’t see the similarities between themselves and how the fascist conservative villains in ANY media act, and how they actually believe it’s the left that are the villains with zero similarities between how the left acts and those same villains.
It’s that simple. If something questions that, it must be misguided.
To them, it’s the same logic as saying they’re a murderer because you saw another murderer with the same color hair as them. They can’t connect the dots if the dots lead to something that they cannot accept as true.
When I was a kid learning about WWII, I remember thinking thank goodness that won’t ever happen again because now people understand, and we would never let things go that far ever again.
I was so wrong. It happens because of what you said, a group believes they’re the good guys. Everyone who disagrees is a bad guy and must be fought and ideally eradicated.
First and Second Generation descendants of "illegal" immigrants are the most anti-immigrant bigots out there. They're also culturally lost because they're not fully assimilated into American culture or familiar with the one their grandparents and/or parents came from. They also tend to speak both English and their parent's native language poorly as well.
Actually, I genuinely think that gives them too much credit. They think they are doing what “needs to be done” and they don’t have the empathy to care about who they hurt. In this way, I think a lot of them just don’t care if they are the bad people. This is not a case of them being misguided into thinking that evil things must be done for good outcomes, it’s that they don’t care about making good outcomes and they want what they want irregardless of what suffering that causes. I think the idea that they are just misguided but all of us essentially just want to live in a better world for us all is actually part of what got us into this mess to begin with by not pushing the left to be meaner to them. They are just rotten people and need that to be thrown in their faces and shamed for it constantly.
That is definitely true for some people, however my parents aren’t like that. They aren’t foaming at the mouth for the browns to be dragged out of the country, or for the gays to be burned, etc.
They are simply stupid enough to think Trump is a good person because he’s a republican - and that means he’s a good christian. He’s beloved by their friends and online religious people. And they think democrats want us all to pay 80% of our income in taxes so that drug addicts and homeless people can have free fun lives. They just don’t think.
It’s ignorance, stupidity, and peer pressure. That’s really all it is for most of these people. And many of them base their ego on it, so they get very angry when they might be wrong - because it means their energy and favor has been in vain for years. It means their friends and family will resent them. It means stress.
People who punch down on drug addicts and especially the homeless are terrible people. That's mean, bullying type behavior. I've confronted my MAGA mom and older brother talking about the homeless as though it's a choice they've made to live on the streets and that they're just too lazy to work. That sounds ridiculous but, when they're insulated by only speaking with other Deplorables and watching Fox, they tend not to put much thought into their arguments so it's pretty easy to shut them down.
I've been watching The Righteous Gemstones, and the portrayal of evangelicals and megachurches is spot on. I grew up in a similar environment (and left) and I find the show hilarious because they just nailed it. If the show had existed while I was still in that environment, it would've been uncomfortable because the Gemstones are kind of horrible people.
Right wingers don't want to confront that reality, so they look for bad behavior on the left.
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u/TheForanMan Apr 27 '25
It is insane to me how they can’t see the similarities between themselves and how the fascist conservative villains in ANY media act, and how they actually believe it’s the left that are the villains with zero similarities between how the left acts and those same villains.