I can't understand why people are voting for MAGA Republicans while all this news

[milestogo]

is coming out about how bad they are for democracy.

Are people really that stupid?

(Rhetorical question).

[durablend]

1. Pwn. Teh. Libs.

That's ALL they care about.

[Bettie]

2. Spite

it really is that simple for a lot of them. They hate...fill in the blank, but they all hate someone or something more than they love anything.

So, they vote for destruction.

[leftieNanner]

3. They have been indoctrinated to believe that Democrats are EVIL

So they will vote for a soggy week-old diaper if it has the magic R behind the name.

[Claustrum]

4. You have to remember, their entertainment "news" is not delivering these real news to them.

And they are in a cult that conditioned them to distrust any news not coming from their right wing media outlets.

[Initech]

5. Yeah that Maya Flores that got elected is among the most vile of them.

Seriously, the next Marjorie Greene. Really, fuck these people.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. I wonder if patriots have figured out yet that they will have to PREPARE for what is coming...

[mercuryblues]

22. If by patriots, you mean the Reich wing

I don't think so. They believe they are special and republican policies will only affect the "other"

Anyone who is not a lily-assed white male, ain't all that special under republicanism. Even then, if they are born or become disabled in their life, they become the "other."

Those proud boys with Latino last names... They will not fare any better than any other Latino under republicanism.

I wonder if Michael Steele, ex chair of the RNC, or Clarence Thomas have realized yet that republicanism will not only relegate them to the back of the bus, but they will not be allowed to have a traditional, white male occupation.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. I meant us, the patriots. The left, the Democratic party, etc. The future is confrontation.

[mercuryblues]

29. The best thing we can do is take down their leaders

and their financial flow. We didn't do it after Nixon. We didn't do it after Iran Contra. We didn't do it after the lies that brought us to the Iraq War. If Patriots do that trump minions will scatter back under their rocks. If we don't do it this time, this country is gone.

[Eliot Rosewater]

33. And to do that something drastic has to happen to get peoples

Attention

If the general public isn’t scared out of their underwear somehow into understanding what’s going on we’re doomed.

[rickford66]

6. They don't want democracy.

We have to motivate new, lapsed and lazy voters.

[Emile]

7. To answer your question, yes!

[Effete Snob]

8. Because they don't want Democracy

They want Trumpism.

They wanted Trump to stay in power.

They don’t care about the rest.

[SoonerPride]

9. Tribalism

Red team good.

Blue team bad.

[LuckyCharms]

10. Yes. More stupid people in this country

than I had ever previously imagined.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. Corporate media programs them.

Their minds are blank, waiting to be told who to hate and what to do.

It's their "team", they hate us, everything that doesn't agree with them is fake news.

[brooklynite]

13. No, they're not stupid....they're not interested.

Its been fairly obvious for a while that the Jan 6 insurrection wasn't going to drive the vote in November. Most voters are focused on their own economic situation.

[Elessar Zappa]

26. You're right (unfortunately)

and I hope Democratic strategists understand this when preparing for the midterm elections.

[Irish_Dem]

14. All they care about is getting a white christian minority rule.

They don't care about democracy.

[BlueTsunami2018]

15. They don't care about democracy.

Why would that even be a consideration for them?

They want to stick it in our faces. They want their “power” back. They want to “own the libs” no matter what.

Ultimately, they want to kill us.

Many of them are stupid, sure. Mostly they are angry, hateful people. Angry, hateful people embrace those who feed those desires. They don’t give a fuck about democracy or the constitution or any of that bullshit.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. They're budding sadists who want power over others different from themselves

[NightWatcher]

17. They want to fight us and conquer us for their twisted Christo-fascist America

They know they are not following the "rules". They are fighting an illegal war against America. Stop expecting them to respond as a normal person would. Your enemy walks the streets and votes for magats. They would like to have all democrats rounded up and executed.

They are fighting and we really should fight back...whilst we can.

[Atticus]

18. I don't really understand it either, but I think that for some of them, the mere fact that we are

puzzled and/or outraged is reason enough to vote for the thugs and put "Fuck Biden!" bumper stickers on their vehicles.

[Beachnutt]

19. Typical magaloon

[keithbvadu2]

20. Trump and the MAGAts are pushing the emotional buttons of hate and victimhood.

Trump and the MAGAts are pushing the emotional buttons of hate and victimhood.

[Brainfodder]

21. (R) or you suck mentality regardless of their own needs, yeah that level of dumbfuckery!

Remember these idiots have been told over time to not trust media VIA media!!!!!!!

[andym]

24. They don't believe the news

and believe what they want.

[iemanja]

25. They actually like the illegal behavior

Remember that they are authoritarians who support authoritarian government.

[rdchili96]

27. Well....

It's not that they are stupid, it's that they just don't give a shit.

[Sympthsical]

30. People care about their tangible experiences

Someone gets up, goes to work all day, and comes home. How many of them then settle in, "All right! Let's load up YouTube and get those hearings on!"

It's a very, very small percentage of people.

Now. How many are getting up, going to work, going to the gas station or the grocery store, and seeing the money being sapped out of their checking account?

It's more. A lot more.

[LiberatedUSA]

31. They want full autocratic republican control.

What they don’t realize is, if the GOP can actually manage to pull off a permanent power grab, they won’t need to worry about people’s votes anymore, which means they may decide the peons should not have guns…and with a tfg at the helm, they would absolutely use military force to take those guns.

[Caliman73]

32. Look at history.

Enough people joined or sat silent so that the Nazis were able to gain power. Same in Italy with the Fascists, same in Spain for decades of authoritarian rule by Franco. Argentina, Chile, Brazil, etc...

People are willing to give up any freedom for security. Especially if they think they are on the winning side and will get to "fuck people up" that they do not like.

[Polybius]

34. I can

Most people care about their pocket more than anything, and the average person blames the Party in power for bad inflation, stocks, and gas prices. They don't realize that it's not Biden's fault.

It's so crazy that I was talking to an African American man while on line paying a bill in a local restaurant. The news was on, and we were talking about the economy and Ukraine. He said that he regretted voting for Biden, and that "Trump may have been a bit racist, but stocks and gas were great under him. Russia would have never attacked Ukraine if Trump were in power, because they knew he would bomb Mosco."