Let's recognize a basic fact: It is all about owning/hating liberals

[Stinky The Clown]

If we thought massive tax cuts and caging children was good and Trump though universal health care was good, his supporters would be on board with universal health care.

For them, it is not about policy. It is about blind fealty and hating anything favors by liberals, logic and reason be damned.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. When will people figure out that approximately 45 million adult Americans want YOU GONE

ME gone, all non rightwing white straight protestants GONE

and the women they keep around better fucking behave and NEVER even THINK about birth control LET ALONE abortion.

They WANT russians to replace us, they want to REMOVE us.

If we wont go peacefully then they will help rump and putin do whatever WHATEVER to us.

This is REAL

NO TRUTH matters...impeachment WONT go thru to conviction/removal for this reason

Our elections are already being HACKED by russia.

[Initech]

3. Yup. If you're about owning / triggering us, then you can kindly fuck right off.

I'm tired of this crap. It might have worked in 2016 but it won't work this time around.

[Johonny]

4. I think it's about hating their own self and life and only experiencing joy

by following a script written for them by their masters. These are people trained to only experience joy when following mythical rules based on rather sketchy rewards from an early age. They're ripe to be exploited and thus, they are. It's not surprising that young people are fleeing traditional organizations that hamper critical thinking as adults.

[IndyinVirginny]

5. scary

Scary because they are the majority of the police, military and gun owners

[Turin_C3PO]

10. Military, I'm not so sure.

I’ve heard the Airforce leans right but the Army is more split. I don’t have any stats, though. Also, he’s pissing off the military a lot lately so he may be bleeding support from that group.

[Eliot Rosewater]

23. Uh huh

[BeyondGeography]

6. Sadopopulism

Trump (or whoever) is going to hurt the people I hate more than he hurts me, so, yeah, count me in.

[elias7]

7. Talk radio and Fox. All about the hate. For decades.

The right has destroyed civil discourse. There is no both sideism to this. People don’t realize their souls have been poisoned by the hate spewed by these outlets, from Limbaugh to Hannity to Breitbart to O’Reilley... the invective of hate is blinding people to valid argument, debate and facts.

[Grasswire2]

24. yes, 40 years of hate radio...

...and the money of Richard Mellon Scaife poured into RW media and the grooming of people such as Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Kellyanne Conway (married name) and many other men and women who were deployed to the networks and cable at the moment Monica Lewinsky became known. It has been an assault, all leading to this moment. They are doubling down, all in.

[budkin]

8. LIBS BTFO ETERNALLY

This is pretty much what they care about.

[Garrett78]

9. That's icing on the cake, but this is a war of ideologies.

Undermining faith in government, in the collective, in democratic institutions, is the agenda. Along with white nationalism, patriarchy and defeating secularism.

[dustyscamp]

11. basically

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[lonely bird]

15. Somebody needs to tell the asshat known as ganowicz

That rights are a political construct and do not exist outside of the body politic. Jefferson’s rhetoric was nice to read but it is rhetoric nonetheless. If you have no government then you have no rights. Utopian asshats need to learn that.

[KPN]

18. This is it exactly. They can only sustain their

views politically if they beat us, the majority. That is what it boils down to and they know and act on it. They must beat the majority consistently to sustain their values as our society’s values — and the only way they can do that, i.e., consistently over time going forward, is to destroy us. And if that means the hell with the Constitution, so be it. No thought about unintended consequences; certainly no deep thinking. It is all very primal.

There are exceptions among them; the would be oligarchs who believe they can weather the consequences with their fortunes, and consciously use those who are primal for their own benefit.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Willful ignorance. I actually had a co-worker put her fingers in her ears and yell "LALALALA".

You can't win an argument against irrational nonsense.

Hate is impervious to facts and logic.

[UniteFightBack]

13. It's the Russiapublicans platform. nt

[Botany]

14. And Russia has used and magnified that hate in order to install Trump and sew divisions in America.

3 web sites: (anti NFL kneeling crap)

Stand for the flag
Stand for our troops
Stand for the anthem

All of which were from St. Petersburg, Russia and D. Trump pushed them.

I have always wondered how big was the Fox News/Russia connection?

[zaj]

16. It's about a belief in a natural hierarchy of people.

And a willingness to accept a dictatorship to impose it, if that's what needed. Education, science, diversity, inclusion, empathy, liberalism... they all undermine the hierarchy, and so at times, a dictatorship is needed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Which shows how pathetic their lives are.

Only they can save themselves. Often one has to hit rock bottom first.

[matt819]

19. There's a bunch of basic facts.

Owning/Hating:

Liberals
Black people - Obama specifically
Add to that, all people of color
Women
LGBTQ people
Poor people
City people
Immigrants generally, immigrants of color specifically
College graduates
Jews
Muslims
Atheists

Sure, you might be right that being liberal is the governing characteristic, but it really is any and all of these.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Drives libruls crazy

Drives libruls crazy

[Hotler]

21. It's about screw over us libtards and nothing else. nt

[bdamomma]

22. This is what

Steven Miller wanted and others to screw Liberals, but the tide maybe turning on these bastards, that pendulum may hit them hard.

They may not get away unscathed.

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[samnsara]

26. i will never be 'owned' by anyone..

[Dulcinea]

27. My 2 cents:

The conservative movement will die if there's no one to hate & demonize. Some people need that "us vs. them" mentality. When the Cold War ended, the political right didn't have the Soviets or the Commies to kick around anymore, so they turned on their fellow Americans.

[exboyfil]

28. Jermaine Whitehead and Fox News is a classic example of the playbook

The misbehavior of a member of a target group is immediately trumpeted with bold headlines and open comments.

When one of the establishment (law enforcement or military for example) does something wrong, they bury the story and turn off comments.

[Baltimike]

29. this should be pinned somewhere bc it's the friggen truth. nt