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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans love to call themselves values voters. And I agree with them, however,
when I look at the behavior of so many GOP voters, especially their voting behavior:
I see voters who voted for a man who has cheated on all of his 3 wives.
I see voters who voted for a man who has been sued for non-payment of bills over 4,500 times.
I see voters who voted for a man who has declared bankruptcy 6 times.
I see voters who voted for a man who openly solicited aid from a foreign Government during the 2016 campaign, and again in 2019.
I see voters who voted for a man who speaks of his sexual feelings for his own daughter.
I see voters who voted for a man who bragged about entering a dressing room to watch young teens undress.
I see voters who voted for a man who has lied over 15,000 times.
I see voters who voted for a man who came to fame partly because of his racist attacks on President Obama.
I see voters who voted for a man who paid so his porn star mistress could have an abortion.
I see voters who voted for a man who demonstrates every day, and with every word from his mouth, that he is a narcissistic sociopath with literally no redeeming qualities.
So when these values voters support such a person, what values do they demonstrate?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)thegoose
(3,115 posts)Now they're out and out evil. MAGATs blindly following that ridiculous, bloated POS and the rest of the party in Pootie's pocket.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)DFW
(54,447 posts)They demonstrate what happens to a society when one malevolent media outlet controls the thought processes of a large segment of the population. Lenin knew. Göbbels knew. Roger Ailes certainly knew.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And this also demonstrates the power of raw anger over knowledge.
DFW
(54,447 posts)For it takes an even greater power of persuasion to bring it to rest.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Many of these racists are obviously quite convinced that white people are being persecuted.
DFW
(54,447 posts)Convincing them that they are the unjust oppressor is like telling someone who feels completely healthy that they have cancer and need to start chemo. They just don't comprehend that they could possibly be wrong when they neither see nor feel any proof to the contrary.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And even when they are being victimized by the 1%, they are convinced that the rich are not to blame. So they blame non-white workers.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)over how they can EVER explain to their children that Pete Buttigieg loves his husband.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Their values leave much to be desired.
coti
(4,612 posts)Mostly they talk about Trump.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And I regularly read such claims in letters to local papers.
coti
(4,612 posts)I said I just don't see it much anymore. They seem mostly defensive now, and Trump-focused. Just my personal observation.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And in denial.
Different Drummer
(7,651 posts)The standard bearer is irrelevant. It's all about the R.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)In theory, Trump should be the last candidate that GOP "values voters" would support. What these authoritarians really value is power.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)It is amazing to me that so many can reconcile their stated values with voting for this monster.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)deposits in many foreign currencies do exist, just as corrupt voters do...
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)with having a lot of it.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Many of us, perhaps most, would call those things vices.