Update: According to Lane County Jail records, the counter-protester who was arrested has been identified as Jonathan James Wisbey. Wisbey, age 51, was charged with 1st Degree Menacing, 2nd Degree …
I'd tend to disagree that MAGA people haven't had a hard life. Many have been stuck in a cycle of poverty (of arguably their own creation by voting for politicians that lie to and exploit them) for generations, and MAGA talking points speak right to their frustration. Cults in general seek out vulnerable individuals and exploit that to their own means. MAGA politicians continue the cycle while blaming liberal policies, so they're just reinforcing the Republican lie to a new generation of voters.
They have access to all the information on the entire web but choose to go to sources that only confirm their own existing beliefs.
They saw Covid kill a million people and watched their family members die from it. I think the sympathy most of us had for people like this died out long ago. Of course, Republican politicians are the cause as is Reich wing media and Russian Social media.
I feel more sympathy for the people hurt by the shitty way they vote, which is all the rest of us. It feels like they are trying to drag us to hell with them, so excuse me if I'm less than sympathetic.
I'd tend to disagree that MAGA people haven't had a hard life. Many have been stuck in a cycle of poverty (of arguably their own creation by voting for politicians that lie to and exploit them) for generations, and MAGA talking points speak right to their frustration. Cults in general seek out vulnerable individuals and exploit that to their own means. MAGA politicians continue the cycle while blaming liberal policies, so they're just reinforcing the Republican lie to a new generation of voters.
They have access to all the information on the entire web but choose to go to sources that only confirm their own existing beliefs.
They saw Covid kill a million people and watched their family members die from it. I think the sympathy most of us had for people like this died out long ago. Of course, Republican politicians are the cause as is Reich wing media and Russian Social media.
I feel more sympathy for the people hurt by the shitty way they vote, which is all the rest of us. It feels like they are trying to drag us to hell with them, so excuse me if I'm less than sympathetic.