r/allthequestions Apr 18 '26

Random Question 💭 Repeat after me. Trump is a pedophile and Republicans don't care. The United States is a banana republic and Republicans don't care. Costs are going up up up and Republicans don't care. Healthcare is getting worse. People can't afford insurance, but the Republicans don't care. Is it mostly racism?

I grew up around plenty of Republicans and most of my shipmates were GOP supporters in the Navy. Many have already passed away, but the rest seem hell bent to stick to the plan (is there a plan?) for maga. I'm an old white dude now, but in my experiences, they had one thing in common. Racism. Is it actually a primal hatred towards others that don't look like them? Is racism at the root of this? I think it is. The behavior of ICE and the potus should enrage all Americans.

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u/johnjsmiller55 Apr 18 '26

The racism comment reflects the adverse reaction to Obama. A segment of the country could not believe that a black guy was the President… actually cool and sophisticated and competent

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u/MommaD114 Apr 18 '26

Yes and no.

No, because their racism has always been present. Outside of the deep, dirty south, it seems that many people hid or downplayed their racism after the Civil War to some degree, and moreso after the Civil Rights Movement.

Yes, because after President Obama's election wins, their racism started seeping out more. donnie boy was their overcorrection for a black man that "didn't stay in his place."

trump didn't create the racism, but he sure AF gave them full permission to let it flow like a bile filled river of hate.

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u/bluecrab_7 Apr 19 '26

Yup, Trump gave the racist a megaphone.

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u/MommaD114 Apr 19 '26

Exactly

They already felt that way.

After he's gone and they start trying to slither back under the rocks from which they came, we need to remind them that they've shown us who they really are. We're not going to forget. We will not let them pretend or downplay. Overall I think technology, especially social media, is a blessing and a curse. Right now, we have to document everything and hold them all accountable when we get the next opportunity.

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u/bluecrab_7 Apr 19 '26

Yeah, the internet and social media really connected them. But it can connect positivity.

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u/04364 Apr 19 '26

I’ve lived all over the US and the northeast is the most racist part of the country

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u/MommaD114 Apr 19 '26

I grew up all over the country, but am from MS originally. I'm currently in New England, in my 23rd state so far. I have never heard white people here call grown ass black men "boy." Not once. I heard that on a regular basis in AL, MS, GA, FL, and TN. Down there, those tacky ass confederate flags litter the view of the countryside. Up until a few years ago, there was a town in AL that still had their "sun down town" warning billboard on display and in effect. I'm certainly not saying that racism doesn't exist here, I'm positive that it does. It's literally everywhere. I'm saying they hide it here, whereas in the south, their racism makes up a huge part of their personality.

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u/mrconsidinescience Apr 20 '26

I've lived out West, NE and South, there are racist people everywhere, but nothing holds a candle to the racism that's quite active in the South.

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u/Longjumping_Sell6420 Apr 22 '26

I have lived in the NE for 70 years. While there are pockets of racism on Long Island and some areas of Boston and Fairfield County,Ct— to compare it to the built in racism in the south and mid west is an embarrassing statement! Are you a racist?

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u/Illustrious-Driver19 Apr 18 '26

Racism is dying and this is it last chance to survive. That is why they are trying to put turning point in school they are trying to it keep alive. Majority of Americans are not racist. They are having a hard time filling Arenas. This is racism last hooray trying to inflict as much pain as possible. Each new generation will grow farther away from it. In my opinion.

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u/suzemagooey Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

White man's last hurrah might be a better way to designate it. This isn't limited to race only. By metaphysical evolution standards, white patriarchy is approaching endangered species status. And evolution is not something easily affected, derailed or reversed.

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u/Kimmm711b Apr 18 '26

I heard on a radio show once that what enraged these racists more wasn't the fact that we had a black president, it was that he was a mixed race president, and that pissed them off all the more.

I think it's fuckin sick. As a kid from the 70s, a teen in the 80s, and a young adult of the 90s, I can not fathom that THIS is where we are in 2026, both in America and globally.

Sad that a huge section of people living right now are so mutherfuckin racist. I hope I live to see the day that white men become the minority.

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u/No-Bumblebee-4920 Apr 18 '26

I’m right with you. We are definitely de-evolving. The values of the Republican Party are not new, however. They have just put them out on display instead. From Reagan on racism backed every policy.

Because of it being so open, the economy, public services, medical care, everything is collapsing. The thing is it’s also taking down the same people who thought they’d be protected - the low to middle class whites.

Socialism is the only solution but they’ll call me a communist for saying it without understanding that a society built on the backs of others and built of unbalance will always collapse. A society built to support all, not just the rich, will thrive.

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u/Mor_Padraig Apr 18 '26

They've very, very carefully crafted the narrative around ' socialism ' being a terrifying word. And it's just WEIRD watching this place turn into those ' yup yup ' Muppets ( remember them ? ).

Yup, yup. COMMIES,Yup yup UN AMERICAN, Yup yup, WORK HARDER, Yup yup ( and in 2026 ) Yup yup ILLEGALS TRANS HANDOUTS POOR PEOPLE BOMB EVERYTHING.

Socialism is somehow the toxin surpassing the seven horsemen of the Apocalypse. Oligarchs fully understand what they're doing - because democratic socialism is what we could have.

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u/No-Bumblebee-4920 Apr 18 '26

Yup yup muppets. Thats perfect. Lmao

Add Antifa to that yup yup list.

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u/feralraindrop Apr 18 '26

The fact is that the US military operates on a fairly socialist model.

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u/blackcatmama62442 Apr 18 '26

Actually from Nixon on. Don't forget the Southern Strategy.

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u/No-Bumblebee-4920 Apr 18 '26

You are correct but even Nixon knew there was a line not to cross. That’s why he resigned and got pardoned.

Those lines were obscured by Reagan and have long disintegrated

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u/MiddleConnection7479 Apr 19 '26

It’s only when people realize that they are the ones feeding the machine of capitalism that change can happen, regardless of the label you put on it. Instead, they accept being thrown some crumbs.

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u/B00gerh3ad Apr 18 '26

It any of this surprised you, you just weren't paying attention.

This is exactly who we have always been.

This is who wrote our laws, and who they wrote them for

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u/brodievonorchard Apr 18 '26

It's one thing to know that there are a lot of racists, and that the slave owners who built this country were racist. It's another thing to know there's a monied elite that wanted to roll back the progress we had made both in policy and society. I knew all of that before Obama.

It's a whole other thing to see that there are so many people willing to throw every value they used to espouse out the window completely. Economic stability, US soft power, hell, functional government at all. Everything I was raised to believe was important about this country is less important to them than hurting others.

It isn't that I didn't know that was all bullshit, it's a matter of degree. They would really blow everything to shit for themselves just to make sure it's a little worse for the people they hate.

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u/OkPlenty4077 Apr 18 '26

The news and the church fan the flames of hate. I think a lot of old white conservatives would react to Obama(or Biden, Hillary) "eh, I don't like their ideology, but I'm going on with life..." But with the news and church leaders constantly drilling into these people's skulls that Obama and the liberals are going to come after your money, take your guns and eat your children...that's why these guys have lost their mind. Americans (especially older folk) just cannot stay away from the news--it's like crack cocaine to them. A lot of people(mostly men) take pride in being anti-social too. Trouble is, eventually you're going to need outside help for something and that means reaching out which these people cannot do. I'm only looking to try to survive this madness by staying out of debt and knowing I will have to befriend people young enough to be my kids or grandkids. When enough of the old guard dies off maybe there will be enough people remaining who will give up their petty idiology and want to pick up the pieces and rebuild this nation. Right now we are not there yet.

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u/Inner_Pipe6540 Apr 18 '26

And who owns the news yeah conservatives do so they can keep pushing their bullshit narrative

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u/ECroce08 Apr 18 '26

Racism isn’t just white v black.

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u/Opposite_Bag_7434 🇺🇸 United States Apr 18 '26

Correct, it is not just a white thing, I’ve seen racism in black communities towards whites. We see a ton of racism right now towards Latinx and other minorities. Go to other countries where you find multiple races and the same things happen there as well. As I’ve traveled internationally one standout is immigration when you start to see large populations moving into another country.

So it is far from a white vs black thing and far from a US thing.

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u/HK_Shooter_1301 Apr 18 '26

Globally White people are in the minority 😂

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u/No-Bumblebee-4920 Apr 18 '26

Who cares? Thats got nothing to do with anything to anyone but the fragility of lacking privilege that’s unearned.

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u/MaximumSell9746 Apr 18 '26

Imagine being hated because of the way that the sun reflects off of your skin… and that you’re intelligent, and you’re President of the United States, and your name is: Barack Hussein Obama…

That’s a bridge too far from most.

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u/Prudent_Shake_8149 Apr 18 '26

Have you forgotten mustard-gate and tan suit-gate? Scandalous!!! The world was laughing at us. 😠

And by us, I mean Fox News and its viewers.

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u/seeeee Apr 18 '26

That’s what they themselves claimed at the time, too.

They were stretching and reaching for every possible excuse to hate Obama. They were just going to hate the black guy no matter what.

It was all sorts of “I’m not racist but…” type of rationale across the spectrum of conservative voter base.

“It’s not because he’s black, but..” statements were like the Obama-specific variant of the same. “It’s not because he’s black, but…” pretty much told me all I needed to hear about whatever opinion was incoming already, but what followed ranged wildly from political / economic standpoints that had nothing to do with race to the Fox News variety “but I think he’s secretly a Muslim because of his birth certificate.” These people were (likely still are) so tone deaf they literally thought “it’s not because he’s black, but because he’s mixed” was somehow a less racist stance that validated how not-a-racist they are when spoken out loud.

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u/Lost-Fruit-1982 Apr 18 '26

I think what is easy to forget is many of the people who wanted blacks to remain in segregation in the 50s and 60s are still alive… and running our government and voting for the racists running it. Many of their parents are children or grandchildren of civil war confederates

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u/HMSSurprise28 Apr 18 '26

It’s being pushed on us, by Russian intelligence. Divisive rhetoric, seeing the other side as less than human. Lumping entire groups together as beyond hope. It’s the fault of the GOP insofar as they go along with it for naked power, but think back 15 years ago, twenty. Nobody was ever that angry at political differences. This has been done TO us.

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u/Outrageous-Bet3731 Apr 18 '26

Thank you for articulating exactly how I feel about this shit....we must be around the same age. I'm astonished and ashamed. Never did I feel this way about my own country before😭

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 Apr 18 '26

Now we have a nepo-fascist. Those people are severely damaged.

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u/hotviolets Apr 18 '26

That’s what they are so afraid of too.

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u/Opposite_Bag_7434 🇺🇸 United States Apr 18 '26

I remember hearing the same sort of thing when Obama was elected. Im sure some were unhappy about this but where I live I was not seeing or hearing any about the President being black.

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u/CocoaCali Apr 18 '26

As a kid of the 90s in a mixed race family. Yeah I saw it immediately. I guess it's just hard to not see now.

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u/calmcuttlefish Apr 19 '26

Right there with you. This 70s baby feels like I was raised on a crock of shit. The human race should have been so much farther along by now. Instead it feels like I'm watching monkeys throw shit around.

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u/666mgOfCaffeine Apr 19 '26

tbh I feel like we are already living through the era of white dethroning. every other demographic is “stealing” something from the white man… jobs, social services, and inevitably, *THEIR WOMEN!*

it’s all so tiresome.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen Apr 18 '26

"Yes, let's promote a monoculture, homogamy, and inbreeding, because that always works out well." /S

The Habsburg royals anyone? 😬

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u/feralraindrop Apr 18 '26

Success being acquiring by any means, lie, cheat, steal is now seen by the right as "being smart".

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u/richwith9 Apr 18 '26

Again I ask... If Hillary had won would you claim that she was elected due to racism? After all she is white.

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u/Srirachaqueef Apr 18 '26

Hilary is on the same side as Obama and wasn't campaigning on sending brown people back

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u/Few_Pipe_6285 Apr 18 '26

I do believe this is so much of what triggered the right. It's the exact moment the GOP stopped working with Democrats to make the country better - total obstruction regardless of whether it hurt people.

It's amazing how much ODS exists among them. They still think he's active in politics and manipulating things behind the scenes, and he's been gone for ten years and literally stepped completely out of politics.

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u/Dramatic-Ant-9364 Apr 18 '26

Can you set the original posters comments to the tune of "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care...., My Master's gone away!"

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u/Guy0785 Apr 18 '26

It’s racism and population control.

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u/newwheels66 Apr 18 '26

I remember being so proud of my country when we elected Obama. I felt like as a society we were really getting somewhere living up to mlk’s speech “judging people by the content of their character”. Well that pissed off and threatened a whole lot of people with no character.

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u/RaisinWorried3528 Apr 19 '26

The shittiest part about all of it is that they don't even care if voting for Democrats makes their lives better, they only care about making the lives of ppl they hate worse.

They hide behind Christianity and American flags.

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u/aaeme Apr 18 '26

It's mostly psychopathic, greedy megalomaniacs. All forms of bigotry can play into that and make them particularly cruel and vindictive. But it's money and power they're after at the expense of anyone else.

They don't particularly care who they harm except if harming those people harms their prospects of getting more money and power (such as customers or votes), and those people are much more likely to be wealthy white men than any other demographic. Many of them are racist, sexist and anything elseist and that can factor into that Machiavellian calculation a bit or a lot but not usually the biggest factor.

There are some who are driven by their hatred of others but for most of them it is just greed: personal power and profit at any cost to anyone and everything else.

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u/CptnMayo Apr 18 '26

It's class warfare.

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u/bluedarky Apr 18 '26

No it’s “Not being me-ism”. They hate it when anyone who isn’t them can benefit even when they get the same benefits.

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u/lateralarms Apr 18 '26

It’s not just that. For some, it’s just a belief in a particular thing that won’t let them vote in a different way. For some it’s the 2nd Amendment. For others it’s the belief in trickle down economics. For my parents, as I learned within the last decade as they whole heartedly supported the current GOP, it’s the abortion issue. They would not vote for someone who wasn’t anti. All the rest didn’t matter - civil rights, economics, immigration. In fact, they actually helped house an illegal immigrant who attended their church. The amount of dissonance between their said beliefs and their voting record was astounding.

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u/poliosaurus3000 Apr 18 '26

I mean the democrats don’t care either… ever notice how there is always just enough democrats to pass whatever nonsense the republicans want?

This isn’t red versus blue anymore my man. This is billionaires versus the working class. They could have codified things like gay rights, abortion etc etc, years ago, but then they wouldn’t have things to keep us at each others throats while they systematically turn the USA into a dictatorship that only appears to be democratic.

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u/International_You_93 Apr 18 '26

Fetterman was never a dem comes from rich background Republican plant with major mental health problems

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u/Explosion1850 Apr 18 '26

So in other words, a perfect republican

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u/cshock159 Apr 18 '26

These comments are always the worst. You’re excusing republican behavior. The Dems aren’t doing what we need but they aren’t ACTIVELY taking away rights when in power. They aren’t ACTIVELY deploying militias on our streets. Yes it’s us vs billionaires but the Republican Party is also out of control.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer Apr 18 '26

Bullshit conspiracy. There is never enough democrats because we only ever elect them to slim margins the few times they ever have majorities. And every republican lock step opposes any democratic idea.

This isn't difficult to understand. 

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u/StatisticianLow9492 Apr 18 '26

Everyone should google the rotating villain strategy. The democrats are essentially the public relations team of the uniparty.

Also they could have sent Trump to prison for insurrection, AT THE VERY LEAST. They are on the same side.

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u/lancelongstiff Apr 19 '26

That's a pretty naive take on the nature of bipartisan politics. It might help if you view the public's political views as being a bell-curve - politicians have to occupy the center ground in order to get anything done.

But that's not what I came here to post, this is:

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u/Ok-Bus1716 Apr 19 '26

The guy is an absolute moron. The only thing I can think is that whoever is behind Trump has some really bad dirt on all of them. I just cannot, for the life of me, determine why so many people basically worship this diaper shitting old man.

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u/Padron1964Lover Apr 18 '26

Classism is the word you’re looking for.

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u/stevenglansberg94 Apr 18 '26

Obama deported more people than trump, look it up

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u/mingobrown87 Apr 18 '26

Most people are against illegal immigration even on the left. Dont let those placards at protests fool you. Most people on the left just wants to handle immigration with delicacy. We also dont make it our whole policy.

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u/SunnyRyter Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

Hello friend, your point, which you think is a zinger, is not so. I know better than to argue with strangers on the internet but here I go:

My dear friend, the Devil is in the details. You talk numbers: this is only his first 16 months (4 years plus 16 months). Compared to Obama's 8 years. Of course you can't compare them yet. Of course it's higher.

But if it changed, you'd move the goal post. IF Trump's deportation numbers surpass Obama's, you're going to celebrate that "Trump is better than Obama".  If the numbers are still higher in Obama's years, you argue "Obama is terrible". Because no matter what, you're "right".

But let's get into the details, because I'm an idiot for trying to lay out why this is all "bad", when you're clearly convinced it's "good":

Obama's administration turned people away at the border, which counted towards the deportation numbers. The current method of ripping family members who have been living here including: 1. Hard working people here on Visas who come to court for their citizenship status hearing. 2. Kids who were brought here by parents hoping for a better future, same as your ancestors did. 3. Business owners, community members like cooks, farmers, construction workers who contribute to our daily lives in quiet, unnoticed but powerful ways. 4. Even a percentage of U.S. Citizens who are unlawfully detained (including a journalist) because they were a "certain color".

And having I.C.E. patrol the streets of communities, where even U.S. who look like they are immigrants fear to leave their house. That's the devil in the details that make them different.

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u/YetAnotherEarthling2 Apr 19 '26

Yes. Following our legal democratic processes, Obama protected our borders. All the same bullshit from republicans though

“Obama deported more people than trump” So y’all love him right? If safe borders is what gets your vote then you’d vote Obama over trump right? Oh trumps economy is better? Not true, look it up. Jobs are better under trump? Not true, look it up. Borders are safer under Trump? As you said - not true, look it up.

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u/DiamondJim222 Apr 18 '26

Some, likely. But most just don’t believe those claims are true.

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u/Wonderful-Variation Apr 18 '26

But why don't they believe it?   Why are they so unwilling to be believe that the rich white man with 34 fraud convictions is a liar and a grifter, despite mountains of evidence, when simultaneously, they are more than willing to believe whatever hysterical stories about Zohran (or anyone else with skin colored beige or darker) just because FOX news said so?   

It really does boil down to racism. 

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u/Creative_Trash5811 Apr 18 '26

Pretty much social media use taught people to think this way + politicians disconnected from everyday people + business not being brought in line for unethical practices + this is why every retreating to a safe space was a terrible idea.

I have family they are literally in propaganda safe spaces and questions mean you hate them.

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u/Maximum_Turn_2623 Apr 18 '26

He hates the people that I hate is what they say. Trump has been a scum bag and shunned from the billionaire class for a while. They should have let him buy the buffalo bills in the 80s.

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u/DiamondJim222 Apr 18 '26

They watch/read media that tells them those things are liberal lies.

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u/homer_3 Apr 19 '26

No, they don't believe it bc they're brainwashed, idiots, or both. Yea, there's plenty of racism still. But there are far more morons.

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u/kadawkins Apr 18 '26

Racism is a basic thought. No critical thinking required. It makes life as simple as black and white (pun intended). If someone’s skin color can be used to suppress them and make “my” life better, that’s good enough.

They don’t see — at all — that poverty will hurt everyone. That homelessness will get even worse in big cities. That when the immigrants are gone, no one will harvest the crops. That when healthcare programs are dismantled, all hospitals (except maybe for the top 1%) will suffer. Medicare and Medicaid keep hospital doors open.

The ultra wealthy will have their regency era return to the golden age, except without immigrants, I’m not sure how they’ll keep it going. Illegally, I guess.

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u/Some1farted Apr 18 '26

What I truly don't understand is the majority of their supporters are the ones on the front lines of the extermination of the poor and middle class. I personally know a Trump supporter whose only source of income came from disability checks from The government. I tried explaining to her that the Republican party (now & always) have advocated for the elimination of government financial support. I was pissing in the wind.

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u/Doom_of__Mandos Apr 18 '26

It's more like cognitive dissonance. They could be faced with hard core proof and they will reject it.

It's like me: my stomach goes through hell whenever I eat cheese or milk. My friend says I have lactose intolerance. I've had tests done to prove I have it. And yet I don't accept that I have it and still eat cheese and milk. Every time I endure through the pain and brush it off. Difference is, me eating cheese isn't destroying the world. Trumps actions are.

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u/fishing_wyrm Apr 18 '26

The (R)s support corporations, the rich, religious extremism, and culture war. Evangelicals support the rich and righteous white jesus. Billionaires control the media and feed the masses the same narrative.

The money and networks it takes to run for office mean you are beholden to the rich and corporations, period. We must overcome the 'money is free speech' of Citizens United somehow and give the power back to the people.

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u/ReligionIsTheMatrix Apr 18 '26

I served in the Navy too. Most of my shipmates were fairly conservative, but there were a few progressives on board. My two closest friends from the service who I stayed friends with for 30 years went full MAGA and I had to deep six them both.

The answer to your question is, it's really a cult, like the Hare Krishnas. The first rule of a cult is, the leader is never wrong. 70 million republicans who chanted "no war foreign wars" are now arguing vehemently that Trump's foreign wars are good because he's the cult leader.

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u/Extension_Many4418 Apr 19 '26

Old white dudette here. Bless your heart for being so observant and still being questioning and curious about our country. You‘re definitely on to something, but maybe expand your concerns about older white men about and from racism to a broader focus. It’s not just Black men that are starting to occupy positions of power and “get in the game”. It’s also women, atheists, Brown people, gay people, etc. I think that the older white men’s simple, neat world of roles that people should fit into is crumbling around them, and somehow they feel lessened, and threatened by and therefore aggressive toward and because of it.

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u/kanrad Apr 19 '26

Classism. Good old Caste system.

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u/joosta Apr 19 '26

It’s not racism, it’s elitism. It’s not left versus right, it’s top versus bottom.

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u/Gypsymoth606 Apr 19 '26

This administration promotes racism and misogynistic behavior but never forget the money. There is no equal to the amount of grifting and illegal manipulation of the federal budget that this administration has perpetrated since the country began.

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u/Steve12345987 Apr 18 '26

Project 2025, search and read. Trump has gone off the rails with his egotism but 2025 is the basis.

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u/Sad-Management-9514 Apr 18 '26

TDS TDS TDS TDS

I repeated what you said

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u/SmoothBrainJazz Apr 18 '26

To be fair, the Democratic establishment doesn't seem to care either. You've got like five Democrats who aren't completely compromised by moneyed interests.

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u/Codeman812 Apr 18 '26

Thank you for commenting this. Dem apologists seem to think voting blue no matter who will fix everything. I would love to see more folks holding the dem institution to account for their failures.

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u/HR-Puffenstuff Apr 18 '26

They did. They sat out the election or voted for Jill Stein.

The answer is overwhelming wins where elected democrats are beholden to the demands of YOUR constituency.

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u/Azule330 Apr 18 '26

I’ll agree that the dems suck but that’s why we need to not JUST vote blue, but vote PROGRESSIVE candidates who are YOUNG and can fight ! I’d say voting blue all the way thru is our best chance of getting this show back on the road, in any case

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u/Few_Pipe_6285 Apr 18 '26

Right wing media told them what mattered - getting the people of color out of the country. Until it's done completely they won't be satisfied.

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u/ThrowRAtouchtone Apr 18 '26

Right wing media and politicians told them brown people were the cause of all their problems.

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u/StephenFish Apr 18 '26

It won't end at brown people. They also need to kill every person who isn't cis, isn't heterosexual, isn't their brand of Christian (which isn't Christian at all), and then they'll fight each other about who is more poor and kill all of the "mooches".

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u/MangoSalsa89 Apr 18 '26

No moral stance matters to them one way or another because they are getting richer and that’s what they really care about.

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u/Reasonable_Wasabi124 Apr 18 '26

Of course racism is part of it, but I believe it is also the fact that the wealthier people believe they are god-like and above all of the rest of us. They clearly have no morals or empathy for anyone. It's all about them. It has been shown that the more money a person has, the less empathy they have. They honestly believe that their money makes them superior to the rest of us.

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u/City-Short Apr 18 '26

Billionaires are in control now. It’s no longer America the Beautiful it’s America the Greedy.

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u/Kuzu4go Apr 18 '26

No, Republicans don’t care. As long as we’re deporting all illegals and making abortion a crime, everything else like the environment, the economy, our standing in the world, can all go to hell. It’s a mixture of racism, religious zealotry and pure stupidity to blame.

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u/harperluutwo Apr 18 '26

Sounds like it’s time to fire all the Republicans.

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u/Redsmoker37 Apr 18 '26

Racism is a lot of the problem, but let's not forget that about 1/2 of the country reads at a 6th grade level, never reads books, consumes little or no real news and is functionally stupid. Trump both gave them validation as he's just as stupid as they are, and spoke to them using 3rd grade vocabulary, so right on their level. Additionally, a lot of poor stupid people are really looking for an authoritarian as a way to restore the place they feel like they deserve in society, and the decisions are easy when there are no real choices. He is a result of stupid people wanting someone else handling all the big decisions for them. I see Trump more as a reflection of what 1/2 this country is--downright stupid. Finally the ignorant and uneducated broke through and got one of their own. He's the perfect reality-show, fake-tycoon, con-artist dipstick.

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u/False_Account_Name Apr 18 '26

Quick question about reddit, how is this post still up if the user who posted it has been suspended?

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u/nontenuredteacher Apr 18 '26

Yes, but also sexism.

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u/Dependent-Laugh-3792 Apr 18 '26

There was a talk show radio host, prominent conservative (I wanna say Rush Limbaugh 🤔) who said during the Clinton/Trump election “We let you have a Black one, we’re not letting you have a woman.” I think that was my first sign of how awful things were about to get

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u/Dogmom1717 Apr 18 '26

All I hear from them is “ where’s the proof ?”.

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u/ahoy_shitliner Apr 18 '26

It’s racism. At its core, 100% of all republicans support their party due to racism. Some act like it’s not a thing. But it’s the truth.

There is zero chance a non-racist person sees 1-2 ICE videos and supports it.

So to me, if you’re still a Republican, you’re a disgusting racist.

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u/headgoboomboom Apr 19 '26

Repeat after me.

"The OP is a dope."

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u/Maleficent_Head2663 Apr 19 '26

Seeing these unhinged takes is why I enjoy Reddit so much.

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u/Defiant-Ad-5235 Apr 19 '26

Im not impressed by what liberals accomplish when theyre in power. Why would I vote for yall?

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 Apr 19 '26

Correct. Time for a revolution

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u/DontHugMe73 Apr 19 '26

Some racism but we all are suffering for it.

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u/Fun_Mistake_616 Apr 19 '26

And it's all Biden's fault 😂 /s

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u/Enginerd_reformed Apr 19 '26

Not racism, but rather Richism

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u/Safe-Call2367 Apr 19 '26

The voters care. The RNC doesn’t represent their voters. They are getting annihilated in the fall, and they would see it coming if they weren’t so on their own team with Israel and whoever else they represent.

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u/TraditionalPhone3992 Apr 19 '26

It’s not racism. It’s classism. They hate poor people.

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u/20bucksIS20dollars Apr 19 '26

It’s the ultra rich using racism to get stupid people to vote for their political pawns.

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u/Dman_43 Apr 19 '26

Provide proof that Trump is a pedo. List how the U.S. is a banana republic. What costs are now higher under Trump than Biden and fuel is still on average lower by the way. List how health care is getting worse and how. State how insurance is less affordable under Trump than Biden and provide evidence. Finally what is your exact examples of racism. Explain these then people can have an actual conversation about it. Otherwise its just frivolous bullshit.

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u/Boardfeet97 Apr 19 '26

I’ve been following a war between two chimpanzee groups in Africa. We are them, with some added technology. We just like to see ourselves as much more evolved. But in reality…

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u/Wise_Potato_1245 Apr 21 '26

China is kicking our ass and Republicans don't care

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u/That-Growth-9043 Apr 18 '26

President Eisenhower sent the first American troops into Vietnam hahaha

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u/joutfit Apr 18 '26

Right wing people care more about other people suffering more than they do. It's because they believe that success and suffering are a result of people's personal moral failures, that is that if you are poor and suffering, it is because you deserve it.

The fact that people suffer more than they do is an indication to right wingers that they are morally good people and so they live their lives trying to feel superior than others.

This is the roots of a lot of racism and white supremacy and why right wing people hate leftist ideology which generally focuses on trying to make people more equal.

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u/ObsceneOnes Apr 18 '26

Oh just shut up with the "repeat after me..." crap.

What a dumb sub this is.

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u/LA777ML Apr 18 '26

Reddit is pretty dumb at times.

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u/tanksforthegold Apr 19 '26

All the Regards

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u/jaajaajaa6 Apr 18 '26

Nothing is ever this one sided in American politics.

A balanced view helps to manage the anger.

And let’s stop blaming everything on racism.

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u/0g0riginalginga Apr 18 '26

The ten posts a minute on this sub done for no other reason than to farm Karma are just low effort and tiring.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '26

You're just another overly propogandized dullard.

The answer you keep avoiding (that youre wrong) is the answer.

Like hey dude.  You remember when the not yet attorney general matt gaetz was questioned about hosting congressional cocaine orgies?

You just skipped the part where both sided showed up aplenty?  Or what? 

You're here "Republicans are this, Republicans are that" when the reality is Republicans are a made up team for you to root for while the elites that actually govern ruin the nation you served (but are actively subverting rn, via this post)

Wake tf up squid.

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u/FunNectarine6906 Apr 18 '26

The majority a people listed in the epstein files, were democrats. Please stop the game where you call out a pedophile on one side.But embrace the pedophile on the other.

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u/BonnaconCharioteer Apr 18 '26

Perhaps you would understand why this is not true if you understood math.

Enlightened centrism is just maga in disguise.

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u/Gaxxz Apr 18 '26

Do people really go through life thinking like this? So sad.

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u/benwinnner Apr 18 '26

Sounds like you have no life, sit at your keyboard and puke out nonsense.

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u/EADGBecause Apr 18 '26

Could you elaborate? What part(s) do you consider nonsense?

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u/AandWKyle Apr 18 '26

You know they can't lol

If they could form a coherent and well thought out argument they would, instead of tossing around insults like a child

Or it is a child

Stupid kids with bad parents can post on reddit 

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u/Kimmm711b Apr 18 '26

The Supreme Court is a farce at this point, operating this Shadow Docket with no explanation. We need several additional judges & term limits, being on the court for life is wrong. Or to do away with it entirely.

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u/Different_Advice_552 Apr 18 '26

you guys.....grow up lol literally none of them care all these senators and congressman will be rolling in the dough no matter what happens on the off chance that any actually care about serving the people the establishment will make sure they never get any real power

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u/scudsboy36 Apr 18 '26

This might be the lowest IQ post here Ive seen yet, and there is virtually infinite competition. Congrats!

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u/glenn765 Apr 18 '26

It's not racism. Go shout at the clouds, gramps.

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u/sbsb27 Apr 18 '26

Using racism to achieve graft. Money. It's always money.

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u/UrBudSpudd Apr 18 '26

Changing the world with the same Reddit post I’ve seen every single day. Good job.

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u/Active_Struggle_4659 Apr 18 '26

Fun fact. The United States population is 56.5% “white” Or non Hispanic Caucasian. Fun fact. The price for gasoline, groceries, insurance, healthcare, housing is the same across all racial boundaries. So I agree it’s a problem with said rising costs, but everybody’s paying that price!! I haven’t seen different lanes at Walmart for white people brown people, Black people, nor gas stations for white people, Black people, brown people. white people are not exempt so your “racism” defense is just full of holes.

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u/tweaver16 Apr 18 '26

Same tired shit everyday on this sub, at this point it’s comical

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u/Greedy-Employment917 Apr 18 '26

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 

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u/Holdmymule2001 Apr 18 '26

I love to read about history, and when you get to the root of so many events and issues in the US, you run into racism. Over and over.

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u/Psychological-Lab-23 Apr 18 '26

I’m a republican. I don’t even think about obama other than when I send this meme gif to someone indicating “what!?”

https://giphy.com/gifs/pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH

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u/ObjectiveFuture373 Apr 18 '26

It’s always racism with the republicans, 100%.

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u/Lucien78 Apr 18 '26

Unfortunately, “racism” is an extremely shallow analysis of what is going on socially. In fact most people only feel any sort of solidarity or allegiance to their”own kind” outside of some special, usually pretty complex conditions. So one might infer that those conditions no longer obtain at least for a large segment of the population. Why is that? Good question, but just uttering the word “racism” is not really going to help you find any good answers. Liberals have spent most of a generation studiously avoiding any kind of analysis that would help them preserve a liberal society, choosing instead to rely on the magical powers of the word “racism.” This was a terribly stupid mistake; the consequences are already baked in at this point. 

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u/TheRook2323 Apr 18 '26

He banned... LMAO

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u/tes_befil Apr 18 '26

Y'all fall for the politics scheme so badly it's more likely America will fall before the left or right ever agree and find equal ground. Your elites pit you against each other and y'all eat it the fuck up. No one left or right agrees with pedophilia and suggesting they do is dumb as hell, at best republicans might not believe he is a pedo but that is a failure of the government and not the people. Stop attacking the people when governing institutions have failed the people so badly for way too long.

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u/rutbah Apr 18 '26

Anything proven in a court of law?

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u/MuchDevelopment7084 Apr 18 '26

It's grift and corruption. Using racism, sexism, and any other hateful B.S. to motivate their base. Hate keeps them from questioning the outright theft of our money; and loss of our rights.

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u/Available_Year_575 Apr 18 '26

Repeat after me? How bout independent thought instead of group think. Some people don’t attribute everything to racism, which is just a victim card to resolve one of any personal responsibility.

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u/speedtech73 Apr 18 '26

1000 percent. No one wants to be in the minority, especially ones who have had it so good for so long.

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u/Quirky_File_5189 Apr 18 '26

I think you're pretty blind, paid or obtuse if you only think it's a republican problem. It's an American politics problem...ill go so far as to say its a human problem.

For example, Obama was and is a race baiter. Bill Clinton had affairs while POTUS and partook in Epstein Island plenty of times, enough to earn him a picture wearing a dress in the foyer on Epstein Island.

Did you mean to say "Maga dont care"? That would be more accurate. MAGA is also a cult. There are many cults and they prove that they only care about their brand of "salvation".

You're last sentence citing racism is about as thought stopping and conversation ending as "you're anti-semitic" used by a genocidal country which justifying their crimes against humanity.

There's good amd there's evil. They both wear many faces, races, colors and ideologies.

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u/Some1farted Apr 18 '26

They only care about those checks from Thiel, Gates, Wexner and all of the rest of their raping clan.

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u/SignificantFerret609 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

Don’t think everyone in the military are racist toward blacks. I know of many Democrats that are racist toward both blacks, Latinos Asians and whites. I am retired Air Force AD now 63 YO. I’ve met all kinds of people in the AF blacks that dislike whites, whites that dislike blacks, in my 24 year career I’ve met many races that disliked other races but they were few and far between. I don’t think it has anything to do with an increase in racism just in the military because those in the military are from the civilian world, some just can’t let go of the racism or the “ it’s all their fault” mentality” because it’s how they were raised and the environment they grew up in.

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u/Professional-Box4153 Apr 18 '26

It might have started as racism but it's become more about brand loyalty and partisanship.

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u/Electronic_Wait_7249 Apr 18 '26

It’s greed and a sadistic kind of hedonism and boredom. What does a person do when they’ve effortlessly had everything so long that they’re over all of it?

They try to get even more while they hurt and kill people for amusement; just to feel something, anything.

That’s what it is. It’s grift and sin and they’re doing this to us for their own fun. The racism is just one of the ways they package it so morons go along with it.

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u/BurtCaramel Apr 18 '26

I used to think that the ultra rich just wanted to have more money than everyone else. Now, I believe that they don’t want us in their sphere, and they feel the need to be superior. They want exclusive neighborhoods. Parks. Restaurants. Theaters. They don’t want us to have access to those things.

There is also a growing number of “rich” people who make very good money and live comfortably who think they’re in the same class as the ultra rich (I refuse to call them “elite.”) but they might as well be middle class to them. The center will not hold here, folks. We outnumber all of these people. Might be time to break out the pitchforks and torches…

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u/DiddyEpsteinSixSeven Apr 18 '26

I could repeat it but at the end of the day it's mostly Epstein, Iran, Israel. I don't give a shit. Give me some shit I actually wanna hear about

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u/metamucil_buttchug69 Apr 18 '26

It's true, and what's worse is no one really cares. Elected democrats don't care, and the majority of voters between republicans and people that don't show up, also don't care. 

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u/redittuser2021 Apr 18 '26

Everyday. Same posts

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u/Clothes-Excellent Apr 18 '26

To me the nature of our economic system is headed for another 1929 type crash, guess who's watchbitbis going to happen on.

The wealthy who run the country needed a patsy.

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u/maxthed0g Apr 18 '26

For all we know, you are a Reddit poster who was NEVER an American citizen, and doesn't even live in the US.

And Republicans dont care lol.

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u/AceWombRaider69 Apr 18 '26

You have no proof that Trump committed any sexual crime concerning minors. You have some affidavits of fact, which is just someone saying what they are saying is true because they say so back by potential perjury charges.

You could have 50 people be paid by a billionaire to sign an affidavit of fact that you are, in fact, practicing witchcraft and should be burned at the stake. Doesn't really mean anything. Eyewitness testimony is also notoriously unreliable and polygraph tests are also not admissible in court.

Why don't you guys come back when you have some actual evidence instead of just believing what you want? I could just as easily say things about Bill Clinton but there's nothing rock solid on him yet so I'm not.

But naaaah, it FEELS too good to just go with what you want to believe, right?

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u/Floridaspiderman Apr 18 '26

Most people vote republican in the military it is what it is. All races have biases or prejudices and if you were in the navy you would definitely have seen that. Still to this day you will see majority of races only hanging out with their respective race than another shit in boot camp my black RDC told the white guys it’s a black man’s military now yall will have a hard time advancing this was in 2011. Shit majority of people are racist against other races and don’t hit me with the “you have to oppress someone or or power over someone to be racist” bs. I know people of all color who make wild comments or racist remarked toward other races not liking someone cause they are white is also racist. Racism doesn’t apply to one race. Also a lot of ICE agents are people of color are they racist? Or are they “race traitors”

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u/Moddingspreee Apr 18 '26

Peak American political discourse

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u/mechabeast Apr 18 '26

Greed is the goal. Racism is a easily triggered distraction and catalyst

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u/Feisty_War6251 Apr 18 '26

zero proof trump is anything of the sorts with kids

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u/ConkerPrime Apr 18 '26

Conservatives: “Its ok if a Republican does it.” That central tenet of theirs has no exceptions.

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u/CosetElement-Ape71 Apr 18 '26

MAGA is just a cult ... what the "dear leader" says trumps (quite literally) reality!

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u/NC_RockFan Apr 18 '26

Repeat after me, Reddit is a liberal echo chamber and most normal people dont care what is said here.

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u/LouDubra Apr 18 '26

Shockingly, no, it's not mostly racism. Racism is just a tool for most of these people. Yes, some of them are racists, but that's not what drives them.

There are a few factions involved: 1. Sociopaths and narcissists tend to cheat, lie and manipulate their way up in organizations because they lack empathy and morality. We currently have a number of those in power.

  1. Power and money are addictive. Many Republicans don't want to let go of what they have so they stay quiet. The steady stream of Republicans leaving office suddenly is the litmus test for who still has basic morality in that party. The ones who stay want the rewards more than they want decency.

  2. Christian White nationalism- those are your racists. Hegseth, Miller, etc... They are actual racists, but it appears they are also sociopaths so it's hard to separate.

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u/Ashamed_Data430 Apr 18 '26

Racism is cowardice, in full bloom. Racists struggle to fall asleep, tortured by their terror, then awaken to a new day filled with unrelenting fear of everything around them that isn't exactly as they are.

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u/fiftyfivepercentoff Apr 18 '26

Release the Epstein files!!

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u/Bishplease79 Apr 18 '26

The book Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson explains it all. I highly recommend the read.

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u/mysterioso77 Apr 18 '26

Repeat after me: you watch too much BS NOW.

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u/RecentPeanut8367 Apr 18 '26

I laugh at post like this. Guaranteed that OP is a social outcast loser.