I cannot comprehend how people keep voting for Republicans.

[milestogo]

The Repub candidate won the election in TN this week. Yes, I know the Dem candidate did very well considering the district.

While there are Republican majorities the country is unable to hold this traitor president accountable and remove him from office. The damage he has done is inestimable and its not over yet. I can't think of anything more important than removing him from office.

Either Republicans don't understand or they just don't give a fuck.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Brainwashing from a young age to HATE anyone with a D behind their names. I live in the deep south.

I see it on a daily basis.

[Polly Hennessey]

2. Their hatred is greater than their common sense.

[CanonRay]

3. Read the comments on Facebook posts about ICE

The hate is palpable, for us and immigrants. They're down with all this shit.

[31st Street Bridge]

4. Propaganda + ignorance x hate America 2025

The Fox lie machine and hate radio keep feeding the beast.
Rampant racism and ignorance and greed keep it going.
Billions of dollars spent on culture-war political ads against minorities, gun control, etc. add to the propaganda.
And now, the mainstream media have gone from incompetent to fully complicit in the true fascism.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. They like what's happening. It ain't that deep

[sop]

6. Tribalism is a powerful drug.

[ZDU]

7. Deep South

I too live in the Deep South. (My heart remains in California.). People here are extremely conservative. It is the least favorite part of the USA that I have ever lived. The mindset seems be "conform or move away, we do not like outsiders."

[rampartd]

9. i frequently work outside orleans parish, in scalia country.

1. the babies
2. the gays
3. the racism

[Botany]

8. 2 things:

30 to 35% of America is racist, sexist, anti intellectual, generationally and socially raised on
ignorance, and we have the Christo Fascist influence too.

Republicans cheat. They have to because their policies are unpopular.

[travelingthrulife]

12. We also allowed these awful churches to preach politics from the pulpit,

when it was forbidden by the tax code. So GOP chronically underfunds IRS. We could have stopped all these things

[Botany]

16. And those churches spread Russian produced misinformation all the time to such as anti vaccine and anti

…. science bullshit from the pulpit too. Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion too.

Russia produces that crap in order to weaken and divide America.

[leftstreet]

10. Many of them vote AGAINST Democrats and Liberals

They aren't voting FOR anything

[NewHendoLib]

11. Cult

[Mysterian]

13. Thank Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the television

The billionaire-owned mass media has spewed right-wing propaganda for decades. There are simply no liberal, truthful equivalents to Fox "News," Sinclair, etc. Even the major networks we have always considered neutral (ABC,CBS,NBC) are part of the media monopoly and are biased heavily to the right. Humans are gullible and propaganda works.

[yaesu]

14. They start voting because they are stupid, they keep voting because they are very very stupid. nt

[Johonny]

15. There are some really really racist and stupid people in this country

If you ever talk to a Republican voter (MAGA) they don't fly off the page as well educated people with a firm grasp of reality. They come off as deeply stupid and disturbing fuck faces. The 2024 election was deeply disturbing in showing just how many of these people there are. It's scary how many just awful humans live in this country.

[bluestarone]

17. I can. It's that same ol

GUNS and RELIGION bullshit. Maybe, just MAYBE when some of their kids start dying from disease's they might change? This stupidity has got to stop.

[Snarkoleptic]

18. Racism, religion, and ignorance -

[JI7]

19. Bigotry and resentment towards others

[kimbutgar]

20. I was visiting my husbands family in Arizona last week

Most of them are magas. We had 15 people on Thanksgiving 5 of us were liberals.No politics discussed but they are firm in their magacult and most of them between the ages of 27 and 45.

[biocube]

21. A few reasons....

1. The media just doesn't do their job. I'm not talking about just Fox News. Every outlet needs to call an equal number if fouls on Republicans and Democrats. There was a time when you might could say both parties are bad but today the Republicans are more corrupt, they've presided over vastly more recessions in the last 40 years, they do more to give themselves the leg up to win elections, and more. I honestly hate most of the Democratic leadership, but as far as which party I prefer it's not close.

2. The Democrats are AWFUL at branding. They're seen as the party that only cares about how diverse the aristocracy is and not the working class party.

3. Dems just don't fight in politics well enough. There's no real killer instinct.

[Sneederbunk]

22. Tribalism.

[Silent Type]

23. Republicans do understand it, they just don't give a damn and/or see it as a desirable characteristic.

[electric_blue68]

24. The mix of racism, anti-brown immigrants, RW religion, and don't forget sexism re Hillary, and Kamala, though...

though there was some sexism on potentially Democratic voters side.

Plus some anti-ntellectualism, some stupidity, and in "owning the libs" while suffering under drumphf's & Repugs policies.

Siiiigh.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

25. K&R

[buzzycrumbhunger]

26. Keep in mind that the "dumbing down" of America has been a right-wing project for YEARS...

The Koch bros. et al instituted this eons ago. The Tea Party and everything that followed was scripted to create a population that was so stupid, gullible, and easy to control to enable their rise to power and the horrors we’re living in right now.

This idiocy was cultivated—the changing of educational goals, the reduced standards, derision toward any and all things intellectual--all of it. The right wing created a gullible monster and steered it into what MAGA is today, to the point they had an army of directable goons to do their will and put a cabal of monsters into power.

I highly recommend this read, which is free on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-SYN9t0cHh1aFu8XV/mode/2up

[questionseverything]

27. So a rich republican ( or a group of rich republicans)

Create a vote counting machine

And surprise when the vote counting machine spits out the winner….

Tada , it’s a republican

[Iggo]

28. They're shitty people.

Their solution whenever they feel bad is to hurt others.

So yeah…shitty people.

[unblock]

29. Between abortion and support for the poor, republicans and the media have branded us as evil socialist commies whatevers

Donnie never drops below 30% because that's the group that's been programmed to never ever ever accept a democrat.

They'll tolerate anything from Donnie or any other republicans because they think the alternative is basically voting for the devil.

[B.See]

30. As most already said above, HATE, HATE, and

HATE.

Repugs have been (more often than not) successfully employing HATE as a national platform ever since Ronnie fkn Reagan's "welfare queen."

The most inexplicably asinine part of it being when (even a few of) those they hate, vote FOR Repugs, and act as stooge mouthpieces, lending minority-face, to white supremacy.

[Emile]

31. WILFULL IGNORANCE

[orleans]

32. seems the great majority of magats, imo, are STUPID PEOPLE (dumbfucks, uneducated, lowlifes)

so that would explain a lot.
they don't understand what trump and republicans are doing b/c they're dumb as shit
stupid, stupid, stupid.

[milestogo]

33. Some of them are brainwashed.

I know some educated people who left their brains at the door when they started going to conservative churches. Ever since Karl Rove/Poppy Bush those churches have become aligned with the Republican party.

[usonian]

34. Come for the hate racism. Blame Dems for the consequences of their bad choices.

It's all about the blame, bro!

Projection.



Every accusattion is a confession.