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[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

It's hard to feel sympathy for Trump voters in general, but certainly there are some specific Trump voters who might deserve sympathy.

Just as some people are raised racist, homophobic, etc. but change their tune once they actually meet some POC, LGBT people, etc., there will be people out there who have just absorbed general vibes of "Republicans = good economy, Democrats = bad economy" from everyone in their lives and never experienced anything that made them question it. Some people are well-intentioned, but... really dumb and oblivious.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I try to feel sympathy when I can. Like 90% of my generation was raised to believe homosexuality was immoral and gay marriage was wrong and that was how I felt. That changed when I grew up and I've spent 30 years fighting for gay rights.

But the reason I don't feel sympathy in this case is that Trump represents NOTHING about how Southern Conservative Christians were raising their kids. He's the living embodiment of everything the church claims to be against. He's a New York elitist pedophile billionaire the "regular hard-working folk" should despise. There's nothing redeeming about him AT ALL.

I get the impression he's torn on abortion laws - because he gets an erection thinking about killing innocent babies but doesn't like the idea of women having ownership of their own bodies.

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