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      They love kids, even the ones who aren’t pedophiles still sexualize children all the time and are constantly thinking about how we must “protect the children”

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    I feel like at least one of those traits are a necessary prerequisite to getting indoctrinated into the Trump cult.

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    I would imagine it’s an even wider scope than that… People who vote for bigoted, ignorant candidates are themselves bigoted and ignorant.

    “LOOK AT THEM! THEY’RE JUST LIKE ME!”

    (Votes)

    Explains Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, John Kennedy, etc. etc.

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    it just baffled me how many of them there are. It kind of feels like at this point it’s human nature honestly.

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      It’s not “human nature” or any other psuedo-science. It’s the unsurprisingly result of an extremely fascist society. Literally founded on genocide and slavery. Both “parties” openly support genocide right now. This is what USA has always been.

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      just as frustrating are all the people in the “middle” who are more ambivalent about trump but still voted for him because of egg prices.

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      It’s just been made acceptable and even praised.

      So everyone inclined is following suit.

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    even if they had lower levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism I would still hate them.

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    The real question is why all of those traits are seemingly super high right now.

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      As the planet continues to be destroyed, any progress will depend on reigning in extreme privileges. So the privileged will increasingly embrace fascism and violence to maintain their position. There are not many people more privileged on the planet than MAGA.