@spiegelmama It's because the goal of those "leftists" is to help the Republicans win.
That's it. That's the only thing they actually prioritize. Over everything else. EVERYTHING else.
Their core identity is to hate "the Democrats". There's nothing Republicans can do which can make them hate Republicans more than Democrats.
What's interesting is that there isn't any equivalent on the right.
@isaackuo I don't think that's necessarily true for all of them, or even most of them. They believe hard in things, and because they believe hard in those things, they think those things must be morally right, and therefore if you don't think the same way, you're morally wrong. I have been like that in my life, but I stopped being so self-centered in my 20s. They feel betrayed by the people who should help them, and I get it.
@spiegelmama Well, maybe so. But they've been manipulated into becoming useful fools, by those who directly benefit from that (Republicans and their extremely wealthy backers).
I am, at this point, not very sympathetic to those who are still defined by hating "the Democrats".
Either way, it's interesting that there isn't any equivalent on the right. Why not?
@spiegelmama Like, there are lots of West Virginians who live in ex-coal country who have generational bitterness over the fact that politicians have betrayed them.
They've got the same level of bitterness or even more. And they KNOW neither side is going to help them.
But this just makes them even more committed to always voting Republican. At least that way, the politicians won't do anything to help black people.
@isaackuo Sometimes people create their own hell. And when they do so just to take other people down with them, it takes a better person than I am to not believe they deserve it. This makes me a not-very-nice person, I know, and it's not productive. Someone else is going to have to help people like that.