I have been criticized in the past for repeating the observation—not original to me—that the entire #Republican platform depends on persuading people to #vote against their own #interests.
This is #patronizing, I'm told. I just don't understand what their interests *are*. Get out of that #urban #liberal #bubble! Who the hell do you think you are, anyway, telling other people what they need?
Well, here it is, in the starkest possible terms. Republicans are willing and indeed eager to #suffer, as long as they think people they #hate are suffering more. There is no other explanation. None.
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/21/poll-republican-voters-trump-desantis-2024
@medigoth The people that were shouting WAKE UP SHEEPLE are now pissed at those now awake.
@retiredskigod They really should have thought harder about the implications of making "woke" their go-to insult. But that would require thinking, so.
@medigoth
>"Who the hell do you think you are, anyway, telling other people what they need?"
Everyone assumes that they are ignorantly voting against their own interests, but it may be that they are well-informed masochists.