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raccoon

(31,110 posts)
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:30 PM Sep 2020

I don't think there's a limit to the stupid things deplorables will believe.

I don’t think there’s a limit to the horrible things the Dotard will do or say.

And lastly, I don’t think there’s a limit to the congressional Republicans enabling the Dotard, no matter what he says or does.

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jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
1. The problem is once they get this far out on the ledge they own it...
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:32 PM
Sep 2020

...Its the frog in boiling water effect.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
2. Yes, sort of like the sunk cost fallacy in Behavioral Economics
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:35 PM
Sep 2020

They've invested too much to turn back for any reason.

Celerity

(43,340 posts)
3. There isn't any. They are literally scientifically brainwashed.
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:38 PM
Sep 2020

I think far too few people realise they are close to or already at the point where at least 1% (I say more, maybe 5%) will kill on command. I wish I was just having a laugh. I am not.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
4. After reading Steven Hassan's book "The Cult of Trump" I erroneously
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:38 PM
Sep 2020

concluded that if the Deplorables realized they had been personally betrayed by Trump and his policies (which do in fact harm many deplorables) that they might peel away.

But when Steve Bannon went down for defrauding Trumpsters with his Build the Wall scam, and the Trumpsters he had defrauded said they were happy that they'd been defrauded, and would happily give more money to that scam, I realized they were on this train for the long haul, even if it were to crash off a bridge.

ismnotwasm

(41,976 posts)
7. A lot of anti abortion voters
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:47 PM
Sep 2020

A lot of this is about taking women’s rights away. They just don’t care. Fact check them? They don’t want to hear it and them go hide behind the word “God”

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