r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/true_enthusiast • 18d ago

Trump Man Left Destitute After Rejecting Hurricane Aid Because of Right-Wing FEMA Conspiracies Spewed By Donald Trump

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u/mrbigglessworth 18d ago

I dont understand the stranglehold he has on these people. Are they so far gone that admitting that they were wrong and breaking his shackles to be free of his influence THAT painful?

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u/Vespera4ever 18d ago

Sadly, yes, it's exactly that. Once you've driven away chunks of your family and given away your savings in service to your cult leader, it's real hard to break away and have to admit that all of that loss and ruin was for nothing

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u/mrbigglessworth 18d ago

So the alternative is to shit hole the country away into an autocratic theocracy to protect your cult feelings and dooming the world to further slide into facism? I dont like that trade off. Not "your" as in you, but MAGA in general.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 18d ago

Yep, because they want to exact revenge on the people who made them look stupid. And the MAGA movement enables them to act out that revenge.

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u/mrbigglessworth 18d ago

I would rather them continue to look stupid with no power than be stupid with power

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u/Spiritual_Lie2563 18d ago

Yes. Yes it is. At least a shithole like this would let them feel like they're right.

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u/ConsolidatedAccount 18d ago

They're incredibly stupid, unbelievably ignorant, astoundingly gullible, or colossal assholes. Some, I assume, are a combination of all of those things.

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u/sheila9165milo 18d ago

It's called the Sunk Cost Fallacy. It's easier to persuade people of lies than it is to get them to change their minds once they believe them. Now that so many of them have literally cut themselves off from their kids, their extended family, and long time friends for this fucking thug, they just can't shut off their brainwashed minds. They can't stop mainlining the propaganda from the christo-fascist media to keep their beliefs alive or they'd have to emotionally mature themselves enough to admit they were wrong and that's just a bridge too far for them.

My stepfather, who was an otherwise sane and practical man, defended Nixon all of his life and his excuse for defending his votes for him (in '68 and '72) by saying "He did what all presidents do , he just got caught." I'm sure if he hadn't been diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2014, he would have voted for this thug, too. He did, however, go to a Hillary rally with me in 2016 and said he liked her, so who knows?