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RoeVWade

(326 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:21 AM Jan 25

Appealing to Republican/ Maga empathy.

I see Democrats trying to appeal to empathy. As if there is any.

I don't think it does a whole lot of good unless you want them laughing in your face. MAGA is only sorry for themselves.

Trying to hide the homeless. Sending people who want to work, out of the country. Shitting on climate change in favor of short short-sighted industry goals. Watching Trump get rid of DEI and replacing it not with true meritocracy, but Kim Jong Un type loyalty which includes pardoning criminal insurrectionist by the chief insurrectionist.

etc...

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Walleye

(37,792 posts)
1. It's worse than that. More than having no empathy they enjoy other people suffering. It's sadism on a mass scale.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:22 AM
Jan 25

DonkeyGirl

(12 posts)
2. Love Trumps Hate
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:23 AM
Jan 25

Hillary Clinton said it best. She was right that most of them are irredeemable.

no_hypocrisy

(50,195 posts)
3. I can see some issues we can share with MAGA:
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:34 AM
Jan 25

1. Food too expensive to buy
2. Losing federal aid, e.g., Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security
3. Fear of medical crises, Bird Flu jumping to people
4. Lines too long at elections

Our theme: These problems are neither Red nor Blue. We need to address and fix.

hatrack

(61,741 posts)
7. MAGA "Christians" believe that Jesus is both weak and woke
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:52 AM
Jan 25

EDIT

In his NPR interview, Moore suggested that Trump had transformed the political landscape in the U.S. to the point where some Christian conservatives are openly denouncing a central doctrine of their religion as being too "weak" and "liberal" for their liking.

"Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching—'turn the other cheek'—[and] to have someone come up after to say, 'Where did you get those liberal talking points?'" Moore said.

"When the pastor would say, 'I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ' ... The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak," he added. "When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis."

Moore went to to say that he did not think it would be possible to "fix" Christianity by "fighting a war for the soul of evangelicalism," urging his concerned brethren to instead fight "small and local" battles like refusing to go along with the current "church culture."

EDIT

https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

Alice B.

(385 posts)
6. You saw that Guardian article, too?
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:51 AM
Jan 25

The Guardian: Democrats seek psychologists’ advice on Trump’s ‘authoritarian’ behavior
Jamie Raskin had professionals talk to fellow members of Congress about navigating conflicts in Trump age

Link

I am ... I don't know what I am about this ... speechless with fear and frustration.

in2herbs

(3,464 posts)
8. Trumplicans are not a political party. They are residents who have been released from the asylum.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 09:50 AM
Jan 25

And that is why the outlook for restoration of justice and equality is dim.

DSandra

(1,480 posts)
10. Many have been brainwashed by the Patriarchy to see empathy as a weakness that needs to be crushed
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 04:33 PM
Jan 25

Toxic Masculinity rules MAGA and there is no room for empathy in it.

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