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Meh. Republicans spent the past several years trying their best to convince me that they are a bunch of crazy bigots who will destroy civil liberties, destroy our educational system, and ban any history or books that they deem as undesirable. I have chosen to believe them.
Those Republican voters who claim not to be those things are still voting for and supporting people who are.
What else do I need to understand?
Why they’re acting the way they are. Your explanation is “they’re crazy bigots.” Well, their explanation for your political alignment is you’re a freedom-hating communist. So your explanation of them has all the nuance and intellectual strength that theirs does if you.
But hey, you can’t find it in yourself to rise above that bullshit, I’m not sure I can help you.
The difference is that it's very easy to point to examples of them destroying civil liberties (abortion), education (defunding schools), and banning books (homosexuality as a topic in particular), and history (teaching the upsides of slavery). Whereas they never have any actual examples of the left hating freedom or being communist.
Spoken like someone who has never bothered to ask one of them why they think this. You're just proving my point.
Feel free to provide some examples then, otherwise quit with the both-sides bullshit.
And no, kitty litter in classrooms isn't a good example
Gun control, higher taxes, more regulations
Trump did more to enact gun control than Biden has thus far or have you forgotten "'Take the guns first, go through due process second"?
OK and?
If you think the only difference between what Republicans and Democrats are doing with the country right now is a matter of perspective, I'm quite sure I can't help you.