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In reply to the discussion: All the crazy MAGA QANON hate points to a failure of our public education [View all]I know who vote Republican do it because they cannot imagine being anything but Republicans. When I started to convince my mother that the modern Republican party is not her father's Republican party she didn't believe me. I have since made progress. My Aunt is the same way. No way does she approve of Trump, but she votes for him. She gets very upset when someone says something bad about Trump, but she KNOWS. Her from birth Republicanism is at war with her from birth sense of decency. She can't get her head around it so she kind of sleepwalks through voting as she was taught on her father's knee.
I have a friend whose parents were Repubs. Now, she believes some of the conspiracies, but mostly she fixates on what she can like about Trump and everything else it's LALALALALALA I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING! Again, she just IS a Republican. She doesn't see a choice.
And I'm not defending, I'm just saying. I was raised Republican, and the first and last Republican I voted for was Gerald Ford. It is possible to change, but people get hung up.