Leopards Ate My Face

It's not thinking at all, really. It's feeling. They don't know the difference. They feel like Trump should, or will, do something. So that makes it true for them.

The "participation trophies are bad" crowd have embraced the idea that all opinions are equally valid rather than judged on merit. So they get to live in a world where they can shape reality on vibes. They have no use for critical thought.

When they say "I think..." what we should hear is "I wish."

I think if they had good judgement, they wouldn’t be trump voters.

Additionally many of them have a “take it on faith” behavior, because that’s been drilled into them by their churches and communities for decades. Thinking critically would have been punished. It’s hard behavior to unlearn. People were denying covid with their death rattles from covid.

I don't understand why Trump voters want to judge Trump on his words rather than his actions.

Because it's simpler. Actions are many and have complex chains of reactions leading to various outcomes.

Meanwhile, after the election he literally said "I'm going to fix everything now." Simple, easy, and something objectively positive. Like the other comment pointed out, this isn't a decision arrived at by thinking about things.

They’re taught to blindly put their faith into a higher power, and good things will come to them if they do.

lol

I think at this point it has to be considered that it is an actual mental issue!

I think the point that keeps getting forgotten is that these people don't even hear about the bad things that Trump does most of the time and, when they do, it comes with spin to make it sound like a good thing. Mostly, they just hear about how much they are winning, how perfect the administration is... how great this administration has been for the economy, how much they have helped minorities but not in a way that will displace white people... how perfectly they are winning on the international stage, how perfectly the most recent special military action went, how much the rest of the world respects the US, how quickly other countries are giving in to our terriffs.

They don't hear truth and, at this point, they are so brainwashed that they wouldn't know what to do with the truth if they encountered it.

Thanks Obama

I realize you're being sarcastic, but I'm going to answer you anyway. Biden didn't do anything meaningful to change things because he and his family were profiting handsomely off the status quo.

Needs more middle fingers and dicks hidden in the embroidered border.

Cults go down with their leaders... Not their devotion.

Republicans could round up Republican voters and gun them down on the street while waving Trump flags and their voters would assume it was Biden's fault.

Million dead from covid last time and they were still calling it fake while dying on a respirator I dont think were getting anyone to think their way out of this

that will never happen. even as they are starving and dehydrated from lack of food and clean water they will mutter with their dying breath "thanks Biden".

Theses people can be brought into the fold if you don’t spend your time doing victory laps for being right.

I actually agree with you, but I don't think these people in particular are the ones coming into the fold. It's the ones who are realizing they've been lied to and changing their minds, and yes, people really, really need to stop throwing it back in those people's faces.

To me, we've hit 1941, and folks need to understand that you're going to have to ally with a few Russians with whom you have a mutual disdain if you want to take down the fascists.

My experience is that a lot of people are completely closed to factual argument. It's like their brains shut down as soon as you introduce a number. They're not necessarily stupid people, just intimidated or untrained in information, and I find it very difficult to communicate with someone who puts equal weight in some pundit saying, "US healthcare is the best in the world" and an OECD chart that shows US life expectancy is 5 years shorter than "peer" nations.

That's some down-home terminology right there. :)

I read that in a Foghorn Leghorn voice.