No, what you say is just what you want to be true. A comforting lie that is being repeated in various forms. Listen to what those people say, watch what they d

No, what you say is just what you want to be true. A comforting lie that is being repeated in various forms. Listen to what those people say, watch what they do. They literally say they want to cause harm. When their politicians gets insulting or cause harm, they get more votes instead of less. Instead of listening and watching, you knee jerk sanitize it, use euphemisms and basically gaslight everyone else. I do actually read and listen to what conservatives actually say and write. It is in project 2025. It is online. It is in conservative journals and articles. Talk to them in person long enough personally and they will tell you. It is the same thing with trade war. It is in Trumps rhetoric. And it was the same thing with abortions - it was totally paranoid to say they plan to remove protection for women ... until they actually did it. Again and again, their opinions and plans are sanitized and euphemized away. And then they get benefit of doubt no democrat or leftist is ever getting. There were enough low tax republican politicians who lost against Trump. When centrist democrats adopt republican plans, the previously cheered on plans are suddenly bad and republicans who keep supporting them are suddenly ennemies too. And the reason is that it is not the economics or taxes. --------------------------------------------- Also, speaking about empathy, why is there consistent expectation that empathy flows exactly one way? You are demanding that I am emphatetic to people who see empathy as weakness on an ideological level. And who are never ever asked to return the favor.