Why do nearly half of Americans vote Republican?

[HughBeaumont]

65. To the people on this thread . . .

. . . that feel the need to reduce racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQI to a "difference of opinion" . . .

These are real problems that are hurting and killing real people. You don't get to belittle or reduce this shit to a "difference of opinion".

However, if you keep saying that all women on birth control are sluts, that all poor people are lazy con-artists who are on drugs, that people who work 40 hours a week do not deserve to have enough money to live on, that gay people don’t deserve the same rights as straight people, or that if you give them rights then everyone is going to go marry dogs or embrace pedophilia, that women don’t deserve the same pay as men, that transgender people don’t have a right to public bathrooms, that you should be allowed to force your religious beliefs and practices on people who do not practice your religion–and expect them to fund it with their tax dollars, that women are making up sexism and the “war on women” to annoy you, that all black people are just making racism up to annoy you, but that it’s totally kosher for you to try to prevent them from voting, that all the scientists are making up global warming just because they want you to have less money…

Guess what? People are going to think you are jerks.

They are not going to see you as “regular folks interested in making the world a better place.” Because you are not interested in making the world a better place for anyone but you. Because you are actively invested in making the world worse for other people.

Sure, as this video suggests, you probably do have feelings. Whoop-di-doo. So does everyone else. The problem is not that we think you don’t have feelings, but that you do not appear to have empathy.

Not only do you not have empathy, you openly mock those that do. Republicans are furious about things like saying “Happy Holidays”–which people do for the express purpose of making sure people feel included. They sneer over things like “tolerance” and “political correctness”–because apparently it is deeply offensive to them that anyone would care about not hurting people’s feelings.