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(before getting people triggered, I don't agree with the guy and did vote for Harris. Can't wait until the maga cult dies off.)
I mean, there are a small group of people on the left being racist/sexist in the open making every part of "white cis straight male" as pejorative as possible. Calling to even exterminate them on twitter. You know, the kind of people that don't want to end oppression but instead wants to switch roles. They want revenge, not peace. Of course foreign bots too, to sow discord. Right picks up that and amplifies it to seem the entire left thinks and acts like that. Worse yet, this small group tends to go and yell at regular, common sense people who agree on equality instead of going to yell at true racists/misogynists/homophobes because that'd be dangerous. A regular person walks in eggshells because saying something isn't sanctioned by these people can get you fired, since the companies don't want the PR disaster. Meanwhile, people in the middle of the country losing their jobs due to factories closing or not making enough to survive seeing people discussing bathrooms for minorities (it is important but let's not forget priorities). It's easy to see how that would push people to the other side, because frankly you don't have options. Of course Trump is another league, extremist, criminal (basically mocking criminal justice by dodging everything while committing crimes in the open), likely compromised by foreign countries, and endorsing the worst in the right. But hey, no choices. I'd love to see maga/republicans split in two parties and democrats and progressists in another 2. Give people more fine grained choices.
One giant difference between the right and left here is that the right isn't a small group of racists/sexists. They ALL are. In no way is someone pushing them towards that ideology, they've already chosen it and are just making excuses.
Voting republican makes you racist/sexist? Then voting democrat makes you a genocide lover? Or supporting getting oral sex from employees? Nobody ever votes for one side because it's perceived the less bad option? I'd recommend going out of your bubble and talk to other people, you'll find a lot of them are nice on both sides and you disagree in way less ways than the propaganda wants you to believe.
Yes. Very few people on the left actually liked being stuck with Harris, hence the loss. The MAGA cultists, on the other hand, enthusiastically voted for a geriatric felon / sex pest who is openly racist.
70,980,347 genocide lovers, counting me. I enthusiastically voted, not against a piece of crap of a person, but for genocide. Everyone republican is MAGA, every democrat has posters of dead palestinian kids in their walls. 32 bit colors is a waste, make everything black and white.
Find me a Trump voter who isn't MAGA and I'll find you a Harris voter who supports the genocide 🤷♀️
I know personally 3 people, 2 from work, one neighbor closely. Reasonable, pro equality in all fronts and not MAGA. We still don't agree on abortion (none of them want to ban abortion), guns (none think we should hand AR15s to anyone), how big the government should be. They don't like Trump, but don't want democrats. The "ALL republicans are racist/sexist" is absurd and that's what my last comments are about. While people on both sides demonize and make assumptions on the other side, this divide will keep getting bigger.
And yet they voted for Trump because...?
And you honestly believe their vote for the openly racist queerphobe doesn't make them racist/queerphobic?
If you voted for Hitler in WWII Germany, you don't get out of the negative labels that come with that decision because you "don't like the other party."