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• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That won’t happen until they are personally affected.

  That’s the single consistent trigger point for every Republican that turns against the party of you’ve been paying attention.

  They have to be directly affected .. they have to feel it themselves. They are incapable of feeling empathy for others, that’s why they have the perspective they have and don’t do anything about obvious issues. They don’t think they are issues because it’s affecting the others.

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  • disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have a lot of Republican family members who are personally affected and still Republican. They don’t see any alternative. You need to remember why we got here: our party has done nothing for the past 20 years but fail. Fail to prevent the collapse of the middle class, fail to create a comprehensive re-training scheme, fail to address the consequential homelessness and drug addiction epidemic, fail to lift the south out of poverty, fail to create a rational healthcare system, fail to stop the environment from getting worse, fail to govern effectively and bring the national debt into line, bowed down to trillionaire oligarchs instead of stopping them. I could keep going. I say this with full acknowledgement that Joe Biden had the most positive direct impact on my life and family of any president in my lifetime. I say this with full acknowledgement that the republicans also failed. But when all people here is that we can’t help them, people will turn to ANYONE saying they can help.

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