2d ago

Social identity is a helluva drug

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You're talking about babies who couldn't wear a mask during COVID. They have no sense of struggle and no toleration for hardship
- They also had their god emperor refusing to wear masks, and political leaders openly denying the disease.
  They had support for their grievences.
  They won't get that over the economy. Instead, they're getting "this is necessary" and "you'll just have to make some sacrifices for the economy".
  
  “you’ll just have to make some sacrifices for the economy”.
  Musk's new response when asked about hundreds of thousands of starving children directly tied to USAID cuts. It's a sacrifice he's willing to happily make.
  
  Their God emperor was wearing a mask and taking vaccine shots behind the scenes. He then tells them the opposite.
  I even have trouble believing the people that "converted back". I just think if things change for them and time passes they'll go back to being Republicans or MAGA.
  
  100%. The people who have turned away from the Republican party have only done so out of a distaste for Trump, and maybe Elon. They are almost certainly not opposed much of what is being done, just how they are going about it, and who is doing it.
  Or, they've just had their faces eaten by leopards, and are upset that they're suffering the consequences of their actions.
  You don't get to be a Republican in 2016 or 2024 without being ok with burning the whole system down, with dreams of it being to your own benefit. They just don't trust the current would-be monarchs to be the ones to actually give them what they believe they're due.
  
  There's two kinds of people in this regard:
  The "I escaped the alt-right pipeline" types, i.e. people realizing there's a cult and leaving it, and getting to understand more about where they've been and how they've been manipulated by an entire media ecosystem. They stop hating trans people, abortion, etc., practically changing their whole worldview as if leaving a religion. These I believe are legit because they make an effort to comprehend wtf happened so that it doesn't happen again, and they likely attempt to pull others out as well.
  The casual types you described who will dodge a bullet here and there because a candidate rubs them the wrong way but they're still fundamentally the same: concerned only with incoherent grievance politics, and therefore deeply susceptible to the same manipulation tactics.
  
  They'll just be told that Democrats, immigrants, and trans people are causing the hardship.

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