• Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    I don’t see anyone making excuses for them. This post says they were lied to and they can recognize that and decide to change. That’s not an excuse. That’s called taking responsibility, and it’s a good thing.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      The saying “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” is apropos to the situation. Voting for him the first time may have been excusable if they didn’t vote for him a second time. They knew damn well the kind of evil he was and still they flocked to him. These idiots will vote for the next Republican to come along because they want tax breaks, or a lazy bigoted scapegoat, or any other selfish reason because they’re unrepentant self serving assholes.

      A lot of the things we want run completely counter to their values. Yes we can agree Trump is evil, but what about treating women as more than walking incubators? Or minorities as human? How about increasing taxes on the rich to pay for social services? Can we at the very least all agree that law-abiding undocumented immigrants don’t deserve to be separated from their families and shipped to Guantanamo or be deported shackled in a military plane?

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        No, it isn’t. It doesn’t matter their reasons for doing it. Either they vote Republican again in the future or they don’t. It’s bad for us if they do. The only thing we get out of telling them they aren’t allowed to change is a feeling of superiority. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather create change than get revenge.

        I don’t care about why they change their votes. We just want them to change. They (the voters) support the working class and poor mostly. We can use that to get them to change. We can use their feeling of being lied to. We can use their hatred for the rich. It doesn’t matter. Getting them to change their voting habit matters. Telling them they’re bad doesn’t.