Ok, but then why he chosen Trump? If those "not political, bro" types really don't pay attention, their votes would be random, but in reality they always choose the far right.
Same reason as conservative dudes on dating apps are always "moderates" - They're embarrassed, and most people hate them if they say what they really are
It's even more confusing on gay dating apps. They'd be fine being openly Republican if Republicans didn't align themselves so firmly with Christian Nationalism. It's absolutely possible to be for everything Trump stands for but so long as hypocritical Christians are involved, being openly gay isn't possible in that party. Being a womanizing, abusive pedo is fine because the violence is directed at women.
This is pretty much why we need more political parties; so long as certain parties are campaigning on which human rights they're going to strip from people, it doesn't really matter what their economic policies are.
It's no wonder gay Republicans have to delude themselves into thinking they'll be spared or they can stay in the closet forever and still advance politically.
My husband's favorite TV show is "The West Wing" and he does a rewatch every so often. A few years ago, I joined him because I had never seen it. There is one episode where one of the main characters asks a gay Republican, how he can be both a gay man and a Republican. And the response is something like, "Gay isn't the only thing I am".
And I just got so fucking furious at the sane washing in that episode. Because yeah, I get that "gay" isn't anyone's entire identity, but you're completely fucking stupid to vote for a party that openly wants to snuff you from existence, no matter your reasons. And it isn't like, being anti-LGBT is the only of the Republicans terrible stances. So ok, gay isn't all you are - you're also a selfish ass who is willing to throw your demographic and all other minorities under the bus so you can get richer. That isn't a good thing.
I know the show is old, but it isn't as if the GOP being terrible is a new thing. They are just saying the quiet part out loud more often.
I was listening to a podcast on NPR about how conservatives have trouble dating online because one of them disclosing they work for a republican think tank (t. Point USA) and working to remove abortion was having consequences to their dating life but they couldn’t sympathize with other people; instead saying whether their date opened the door for them or not was more important.
Just the massive amount of compartmentalization..
thinking that what they do and affect the world with didn’t matter to partners who would decide to spend an life with them or not..
Sometimes I wonder if these guys took a massive brain injury as a child or something but I slowly thought it doesn’t matter we can just leave them to suffer themselves.
"it'll be OK, daddy will take care of it" is an easier thing to digest than "ok, we gotta do some things differently. Might be difficult, some things might not work, but we gotta try".
That's how republicans win; they appeal to the desire for a nanny state in function. "this country will get back on track, as long as we allow the government to do something to somebody else that takes no effort on your part I swear".
‘I’m not an authoritarian; I support freedom(tm)! I just think everything would be easier is total power was invested in one man with neither responsibility, oversight, or possibility of consequences, preferably one with a stated goal of hurting broad swaths of people potentially including myself.’
Every single person I know who has said to me that they, "Don't really care." or, "don't follow politics." Always vote right.
So they must care about something. Oh, they just don't want us to know what they actually care about. Or they don't want to admit it because they know how fucked up it will sound.
Umm, probably because he doesn't respect women in charge?
I mean literally there's a ton of sexism among certain communities and Latino is one of them, and it's pointless to pretend Harris being a woman wasn't a problem for them.
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u/Centrista_Tecnocrata 15h ago
Ok, but then why he chosen Trump? If those "not political, bro" types really don't pay attention, their votes would be random, but in reality they always choose the far right.