Things aren't going to change much until the GOP base feels actual pain...

[LesterKasai]

...as in health care benefits lost, job loses, and deep cuts into their SS benefits/disability. That's a direct pain they will feel in their wallets and can directly tie to their GOP leadership. That is the only way they will change IMHO. All the rest about trying to convince them about equality/social good and what not is a waste of time.

[LesterKasai]

1. They're not open to new ways of thinking to solve current problems.

They want the old ways, trapped in their fears....that's why they are called Conservatives.

[Doreen]

2. Do not forget the massive homelessness if they succeed in doing what they

want to housing for the poor.

[LesterKasai]

3. Yes I understand that many innocents will be harmed by the GOP.

But I don't see the GOP base changing just out of goodwill for their neighbors.

[Doreen]

5. The only reason the GOP changes is if they will get something out of it

despite others being hurt. The GOP runs on the "only if I get something" rule even if they are to blind to see they will get nothing until the deed is done.

[hatrack]

12. Others being hurt - that's what they get out of it - that's their goal

There's nothing left but reptilian cortex, tribal bullshit at the heart of the GOP, and that's the tub the party's "leaders" are thumping.

And it still works.

[Azathoth]

4. That won't change things either. They will simply blame Obama and Democrats

They were giving Reagan credit for the economy in 1996 for God's sake.

Things won't change until we break the alternative fact bubble and go back to Fairness Doctrine days. You simply can't reach a cult that has been totally carved away from society and isolated in an alternate information stream.

[orangecrush]

6. Truth

[bench scientist]

7. Sadly, I think you are correct. There is a severe empathy gap in this country. n/t

[defacto7]

8. Oh and it's a coming...

Considering how they've been brain washed guess who they are going to blame? Guess who they'll be coming for?

[kysrsoze]

9. I've said forever, they have zero empathy, and this is the only way any of them change.

N/T

[tenderfoot]

10. The GOP base are masochists

they could be next to starving and still vote GOP

[Voltaire2]

11. Their pain has been deflected against blacks gays

Mexicans Muslims and liberal elites for 40 years.