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USA as a society is mentally ill, where sociopathy is often seen as a virtue. For instance denying poor people health care and food, denying pregnant women with potentially lethal complications the right to abortion. Allowing (white) people to kill (black) people without reason based on stand your ground rules. Refusing stricter gun rules despite countless school shootings.

The list of sociopathy permeating US society goes on and on.
Now I know that despite this, about half the population see the problems. The other half, somehow confuse Trump’s sociopathy with strength, and admire him for it. Yes this is how it is in USA, sociopathy is widely admired, people want Trump to hurt people, the poor, emigrants, people of color, LGBT. Many Americans want all these people to suffer, for no other reason than their mere existence. Somehow this is OK to even extend to women in general too.

If you are a normal well functioning person, it’s near impossible to grasp that hate can be this widespread, and Trump is fueling it, and before him Republicans have been fueling it for decades.

This makes all the hateful illegal stuff Trump does nearly irrelevant, people simply don’t care, they just want to see the people they hate burn. It’s not that Trump isn’t called out at times, it’s just that it doesn’t really make a difference.

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jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For what it’s worth, alot of us see the problem and are doing what we can to help. To stick up for queer folks, to not buy products from places like Walmart, and tell everyone we know to vote for people with empathy.

Greed is good, became the norm.

Conservative folks want to conserve what they have, at any cost. Simple as that. Fuck you, I got mine.

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SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

people want Trump to hurt people, the poor, emigrants, people of color, LGBT. Many Americans want all these people to suffer, for no other reason than their mere existence. Somehow this is OK to even extend to women in general too!

I can understand that this might be true of people, but sooo many people in this country are women, poor, emigrants, people of color, LGBT. To have as much support as Trump manages to have, clearly there are people within these groups that target themselves… it makes no sense.

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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Remember in 2016 there were LGBT for Trump?
  It was absolutely insane!! No it doesn’t make sense, but there are always a percentage that are delusional, and sometimes they manage to convince others.
  Probably there are people who actually believe they don’t deserve equal rights, this can be indoctrinated through religion, and religiousness in USA is VERY high.
  There are probably also people who don’t see themselves as part of one of the groups even if they clearly are.
  Remember the MAGA woman who was extremely surprised when her husband was expelled because he was an illegal alien? That’s how stupid people can be!
  Because it’s “all the others” not “me” they think.
  
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  - pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Upper middle class gays somewhere in Gilbert Arizona who just want to see their retirement savings to go zoink. You have your walled swimming pool and Trader Joe’s nearby.
    
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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Common things that pop up commonly
  
  Women with the attitude that “the only moral abortion is my abortion.”
  
  Immigrants who are angry at other immigrants, wanting to close the door behind them. (Just look at Cubans in Florida)
  
  Log Cabin Republicans, LGBT+ members who are somehow shocked when the party turns on them.
  
  What do most of these people have in common? Money.
  
  Trump supporters are more likely to be small business owners. Capitalism doesn’t care about your skin color, your creed, your nationality, your history, it just wants your fucking money.
  
  It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
  
  Upton Sinclair was talking about jobs, but this can be extended to… women who financially rely on their husbands becoming more politically aligned with their husbands (especially if they like the lifestyle), immigrants financially relying on the “good people” willing to hire them as an immigrant (stockholm syndrome?), and the number of rich white gay dudes who may as well have been rich white straight dudes at any other point in history is too damn high (they love to hide behind their sexuality when anyone critiques their horrible positions).
  
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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

If you are a normal well functioning person, it’s near impossible to grasp that such hate can be this widespread, and Trump is fueling it, and before him Republicans have been fueling it for decades.

the only reason this shit ever gets this popular is literally because of fascism.

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