Why do people vote Republican?

To Rush Limbaugh and Fox News for too many years to believe that what you say is true.

Sad but true. Maddening but true.

Talk radio especially is horrific. I listen in at some point each day mostly local guys. For some people it’s Fox, talk radio, formerly Rush at lunch, talk radio on the way home, affirmation of everything they’ve heard during the day on Fox.

they hate us just as much as we hate them. your mileage of hate may vary.

their hatred is unjust.

hoping I will have some epiphany. Nothing so far.

The only thing I can come up with is that they have been brainwashed for 40 years that Democrats are evil incarnate so they must do anything and everything to stop Democrats.

Most of them were raised in GQP homes and run around in GQP circles from college, to work to friends and family. They are ingrained to be racist, homophobic, misogynistic, greedy, immoral, gun loving psychos. They have been trained to be hate filled, lying cheaters who have no moral compass.

They are living in a cult, plain and simple.

My parent literally told me that Bush is better than Obama because he gave him a $10 tax refund check. My parents earned so little that they barely benefitted from the tax cut (They made like 80k combine income). Of course there are a lot of racism in it because my dad also told me that no countries in the history of the world that the country was good having a black leader leading the country.

Sadly, I am a first generation immigrant that somehow the Libertarian/right wing media used Chinese radio hosts to spread their nonsense as well. I can hear the daily right wing outrage of the week (in Chinese) complaints from my parents while they would be completely silent toward the real outrage like the school shooting yesterday.

They don't understand how marginal rates work, they don't know how to calculate their effective tax rate, etc. They usually don't even know how many dollars they paid in income tax. But they're absolutely certain it was way too much!

low taxes, strong leadership party. Daddy.

Tough on crime, tight with the penny.
I think it was Bill Maher who I heard say that.

But if it was Gore or another Democrat in office many of those save ones would blame them for being weak and allowing the attacks to happen.

None of this involves these people thinking very deeply. But they will judge people differently based on the same thing happening based on their views of the parties.

Mommy Democrats get yelled at for not cutting the crusts off Timmy's peanut butter and jelly sandwich just the way he likes it.

9/11 would not have happened.

will lower their taxes convinces a certain % to vote that way-true or not.

There used to be a regular post here called “Ask Auntie Pinko”. It was very good. That question was one of the first things I saw on DU and I thought it crystallized the whole thing. That was 20 years ago too - not these full fledged Nazis we are dealing with now.

When they are voted out. Takes Democrats 4 years to fix their fucking mess. But then get blamed for spending to much money. People refuse to see what's really going on. PLUS another reason is religion. PROTECT that baby for 9 months then they don't give a rats ass anymore! Tiring just tiring for sure!

His work is about what are called moral frames that humans use to make sense of the world. Liberals use logic and evidence to persuade voters, while cons are plugged into a different approach that relies on the frame of the strict-father model to reach voters through an emotion-based process. To me, it's the most compelling explanation of why people vote against their own self-interests. Here is an interview with Lakoff from several years ago:

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Much of cognitive linguistics concerns itself with how we build the mental apparatus to understand everyday situations: a hospital, or a date, or a cash machine. Erving Goffman, commonly cited as the most influential sociologist of the 20th century, wrote Frame Analysis in 1974, defining and exploring exactly how this happens. Having built the frames to understand life, we no longer deliberately plug back into it. It is unconscious; what we think of as "common sense" is merely an act or notion that resonates with one of our deep frames.

Lakoff's work on the conceptual systems around morals and politics (and how they show up in language) has yielded two-dozen metaphors for morality, most of them universal across cultures. Of those, the two key frames informing political judgment involve the idea of government as a family: the strict-father model (conservative) versus the nurturant-parent model (progressive).

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/01/george-lakoff-interview

Really makes me wonder if some sort of bad gene is responsible for the lack of empathy.

Which is the same reason they vote Democrat when a Republican is in power and they are doing bad. Some people blame the Party in power.

..like Liz Cheney, Kinzinger, the Lincoln Project people, Nicolle Wallace but the voter segment has most of the wing nuts and there is a bunch of them and they've always been there. I believe most of them are the white superiority/supremacists variety who are truly racists and bigots and want to be in charge, in control and live by their interpretation of the Constitution and freedom.

Trump brought 'em all out of the woodwork.

I know some Republican voters who don't much like the Republican party because of many disappointments over the years ... but they hate the Democratic party.

"My dad was a Republican, his dad was a Republican so I'm a Republican." They don't even have a good excuse...they just vote Republican.

I'm working on a list, "why would you vote for Trump?"

He’s a liar.
He’s corrupt.
He’s a con man.
He’s a despot.
He’s a traitor.
He’s egomaniacal.
He’s callous.
He’s incompetent.
He tried to overthrow the government.

Because he's not a Democrat?

And I asked a friend why.

"Because I AM a Republican."

... but for many that makes them easy dupes for a fascist takeover.

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...who looked like he could have been a Manson Family cult member.

He read and almost evangelized for the Carlos Castaneda stuff.

Then he made some $$$ (his first few millions) in the early-mid 80s and started leaning "right" because "I became conservative when I had the $$$ to conserve."

Meaning, he wanted tax cuts.

Plus, as a business owner, he always wants to suppress wages, benefits, unions, etc, as much as possible.

Additionally, 25 years of watching Fox News (he really loved billo riley) just further mutated his brain.

He does have several employees who have been working at his business for 25-30 years, so they are treated well, it seems.

But for some time now, he apparently has zero critical thinking skills.

He is extremely friendly/likable, thinks of me as almost like a brother, but when he unloads his repuke shit on me, I tell him he's full of shit, he's a fuckin moron, etc, and if you don't wanna hear this from me, stfu with your trump-humping bullshit.

That usually works for a few months or more.

I'll never understand it

Which is equal parts sad, pathetic, and psychopathic.

It's really that simple. There are good people in the world and evil people. The way to tell the evil ones are that they vote Republican.

there are no "sane" GOP voters--there are just a lot of racist shitbags in this country

So much that they will vote against their own interests.

The demonization of liberals started with Rush, and became what we know now as "hate radio".

Here's the modern republican platform:

1. I'm gonna get mine and fuck all yall.

2. If a liberl is for it, im against it.

That's it. There are no bill buckleys anymore.