Current Events > Why are Republicans so mean?

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Like honestly not even joking. So much of what they do is not help them, but to hurt other people . Like how can you wake up and say , today I want to make other people lives worse.

Cuz America allowed them to comeback into power when in reality they should have never won the Whitehouse again till maga was long dead

Because they don't view us as people. Or at least people that they should concern themselves over.

Hurting vulnerable people wins the votes of bigoted white people.

Because to them, might makes right and it gives them such a dopamine rush

They literally rather have Russians over any dem they have been fear mongered and propagandad to death

Low empathy + decades and/or centuries of propaganda demonizing the Others.

They're masochistic bullies. They pick on those they deem weaker, while taking pleasure in the strong abusing them.

they're fucking dumb

Some people have no joy in their life unless they can punch down. Sometimes even punching up at people for having the middle class life that they don't have.

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Decades of Fox News grooming their hate away from the rich onto marginalized people.

I'll never understand this. mean people who step on others to get ahead, I kind of understand. but the ones who are like, "I'll be paying more for groceries but at least the other team gets hurt!', is just pure nonsense.

People have been conditioned into a zero-sum game when there is none.

cjsdowg posted...

Like honestly not even joking. So much of what they do is not help them, but to hurt other people . Like how can you wake up and say , today I want to make other people lives worse.

LBJ said it best:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a6c00d11.jpg

Now just substitute "colored man" for "lib, minority, and lbqt+ person" and there you have it.
These people want to see others suffer, because either they have actually suffered, or they are convinced that they suffered (even though they didn't)
These people are wholly incapable of self reflection and self blame. Instead, it is always others that must be wrong.

Short sighted. All that matters is their wallet. Long or short term.

Low empathy. All that matters is how they are treated, and their results.

Greed. They think greed is good.

Sure, they can extend their "care" to their wife, and kids. Some to extended fam. Maybe neighbors. Maybe their tribe/race, exclusively.

They think racism is smart. Look at the numbers! Lots of stereotypes, lots of generalized guesses. That's smarts, to them. They wonder why everyone doesn't jump to extreme conclusions over scant data like them.

Like. If they are a victim of 1 crime, look at their jumping to stereotypes. This is smarts to them.

They don't even need to be the victim. They take 1 crime or flaw in the neighborhood, and jump to paranoid conclusions.

1 missing pet? The new Haitians ate them. Of course! (Pet was later found, but their conclusions didn't change!)

Because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush:(

They are cavemen. When they see something they don't like they think they should be able to beat it to death with a club. When someone tells them no their brains turn to mush.

Part self-loathing, part personality disorder, part tendency to confuse meanness with strength.

Shamino posted...

LBJ said it best:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a6c00d11.jpg

Now just substitute "colored man" for "lib, minority, and lbqt+ person" and there you have it.
These people want to see others suffer, because either they have actually suffered, or they are convinced that they suffered (even though they didn't)
These people are wholly incapable of self reflection and self blame. Instead, it is always others that must be wrong.

see, here's the thing. it's not just "lowest white man". or even white. or man! lots of minorities with decent salaries think this way.

The racism is just one aspect of it, they have just convinced enough people that life is a zero sum game. If someone else is winning that must mean you are losing, if you want to win someone else has to lose. Once you get people locked into that mindset all the in- group/out-group stuff just takes care of itself for you.

Best part is that they claim to be the party of christ.

Believe it or not, some people are just born as terrible assholes.

Fox News.

They monetized constant outrage culture and outright bigotry. That mentality kind of paved the way for the modern online grifters who follow exactly the same blueprint.

The entire party has spent decades constantly being offended by everything and being told that minorities are causing every problem in their lives. They have virtually no cohesive party goals aside from "Punish the people that we don't like for problems that we think they caused" and it kinda shows.

Kisai posted...

Believe it or not, some people are just born as terrible assholes.

And Republicans have perfected the art of making assholes into a political movement.

Because all of their actual policies suck ass and the only thing they can run on to convince idiots to vote for them is bigotry

Mental health crisis.

And no, I'm not joking: people focus too much on the big critical items in that category but we're several generations deep on people who've never had healthy emotional outlets or processing methods and there's not even a *rudimentary* system for teaching them how if their family hasn't (if they're lucky enough to even have one that's stable)

So you end up with angry, bitter people chasing the brief highs of making life worse for everyone else.

Not sure how to go about fixing that

Voidgolem posted...

Mental health crisis.

And no, I'm not joking: people focus too much on the big critical items in that category but we're several generations deep on people who've never had healthy emotional outlets or processing methods and there's not even a *rudimentary* system for teaching them how if their family hasn't (if they're lucky enough to even have one that's stable)

The 50s was literally returning WW2 veterans suffering from PTSD who chose to reintegrate into American society by turning American society into the army.

No tribal

They're also spoiled little wannabe royalty whose mommy never said no.

A lot of it is a fear response. There's studies done, conservatives are a fearful bunch and it's why conservative politicians use fear in their political messaging. Such messaging doesn't work as well on people on the left but works wonders on the right.

Because those with authoritarian leanings exhibit weaker cognitive ability and emotional intelligence.

They run on hate and just want to see them punished

We elected Barack Obama and it broke so many racist brains

Enclave posted...

A lot of it is a fear response. There's studies done, conservatives are a fearful bunch and it's why conservative politicians use fear in their political messaging. Such messaging doesn't work as well on people on the left but works wonders on the right.

There have also been studies that indicate people who lean politically left tend to have empathy for other people in general while people who lean politically right tend to have plenty of empathy for those they see as part of their ingroup but not much for those they see as part of an outgroup.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

There have also been studies that indicate people who lean politically left tend to have empathy for other people in general while people who lean politically right tend to have plenty of empathy for those they see as part of their ingroup but not much for those they see as part of an outgroup.

Yup, this is why you will at times see conservatives who will suddenly change their minds on an issue once it personally affects them or somebody they care about but not a minute before then.

Idk, religionism? People who think morality comes from or depends on their favorite flavor of ancient mythology or "God" are bound to be morally corrupt, spiteful, and intolerant of others. IMO

621 posted...

see, here's the thing. it's not just "lowest white man". or even white. or man! lots of minorities with decent salaries think this way.

In order to be the "model minority", you must hate other minorities as white people do.

To them, people can't "win" unless other people "lose"

Also, they see things like human rights as a pie, where giving some people more rights somehow means less rights for them (see: DEI)