Why are Republicans such dicks?

[Cyrano]

I've posted this question many times over the years. And I've finally found an answer. Because!

If you've got a better answer than that one, please post it.

[dchill]

1. They're afraid.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. Ding Ding! Of everything, but especially seeing their power

and white privilege status dwindle away.

[Chainfire]

10. You are right about afraid.

They are paranoid that someone is going to take their most valued possessions; money, guns, masculinity, bible, and the concept that all of the "other" people in the world are bad unless they are serving white folks. They are afraid that the bad people will make their children into gay atheists who hate Jesus. They are afraid of books, even if they never open one. They are scared to death that some of their tax money will go to poor people to buy welfare Cadillacs. The do not have the self confidence to compete in a multicultural world.

And then there are those at the top who are just in it for the money.

[Walleye]

14. They are afraid of women

[Cyrano]

32. Thoughtful, and perhaps totally accurate, Chainfire.

Especially right about "those at the top who are just in it for the money." (And the power.)

[Firestorm49]

22. Why are they such dicks?

Why does a dog lick his balls?

[Cyrano]

33. Hygiene?

[luv2fly]

2. Comparing them to a penis is offensive to the penis n/t

[rzemanfl]

3. Not to mention people named Richard. n/t

[Ocelot II]

4. Damned if I know. Maybe their parents didn't hug them enough.

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith

[NewHendoLib]

5. Fear, propaganda, imagined grievances

[SoCalDavidS]

6. Because It Works

Owning the Libs is a feature, not a bug.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Here is the perfect illustration of what you are saying...

I am an aviation nut, this is one of my fave YouTube channels.

Listen to this pilot get angry at the "liberals" in California, and note when the announcer explains what the pilot means by "rolling coal."

If you are in a hurry, ff to the 4 minute mark.

[Blue Owl]

13. Odd thing I've noticed about the aviation/airline industry...

Seems like it's loaded with GOPers and MAGAts

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. Lots of former military.

Some of the most rabid maga asses are former military. But I think that is changing.

People nowadays are more mature, educated.

[Kablooie]

9. Because they believe in family values.

Manson family values.

[chriscan64]

11. It takes a dick

to burn the economy down to the ground in order to prevent a 3% increase in the top rate just so the already too rich can get slightly richer. It takes half a nation +1 of dicks to vote in the politicians they need to accomplish that.

[Blue Owl]

12. A basket of deplorables, a bag of dicks...

Six of one, half dozen of another....

[Emile]

15. Like Trump, they're all a bunch of whiny ass cry babies! 😭

[Mysterian]

17. Their sense of victimhood,

perpetuated by pervasive fascist propaganda across multiple platforms.

[CharleyDog]

35. I think this explains it the most. Pervasive propaganda across multiple platforms with agendas to

manipulate and we have viciously brainwashed people:

"religion" that is against Jesus' message

preaching hate from the pulpit

preaching victimhood/we are better than you - from the pulpit

Radio/TV that receive big Republican money broadcast constant messages with the purpose of stimulating people's anger/victimhood against "liberals" - pure brainwashing

Racism, racism, racism, racism - this drives SO MUCH of the Republican force

and misogyny, of course.

The past 20-30 years of the rise of Rush Limbob types/FoX Entertainment demonstrates the ease people are brainwashed (so thoroughly, as we see, that it seems mostly permanent/unbreakable. This should be a crime. Research needs to be done on the damaging effects to our United States from these propaganda stations.

[Cyrano]

37. We can't criminalize ignorance

The answer is what it always has been. Education. Passing on what is learned from generation to generation.

Who knows how much longer it will take for humanity to evolve out of it's barbaric adolescence. There's a good chance we'll destroy the ecological system that sustains us all, before we can "grow up." And the Republican's opposition to climate change makes the survival of humanity even more problematic.

[Karadeniz]

18. Because their souls are smaller than their putzes.....

[D_Master81]

19. As someone who knows a lot of republicans

I live in the reddest of red areas of Indiana. Where Dems many times aren’t even on the ballot for local offices. So I interact with a lot of republicans and can comment with pretty good understanding.

From my experience, many in the GOP are raised on the belief that their beliefs are more than just political. They are taught that the world is out to get them. Christians are persecuted because prayer was taken out of school and 10 commandments monuments have been removed. The media, the education system, science and medicine, all pushing a liberal, global agenda that must be fought back against or they will be slaves to it. If you don’t fight back or believe like them you are viewed as sheep going along with the system to your slaughter. So they view themselves in a constant war and anyone that doesn’t see it like them is looked down on because they are sheep allowing it all to happen.

[Cyrano]

23. The only "cure" for these people is education,

which they despise. Thus, they are trapped in a web of their own hatreds.

[GreenWave]

20. They hate science yet use an electron microscope

to find the elusive pink hair.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. If You Switched The Syntax...

...it makes simple sense.
If you're already a dick, you probably go republican.
The "dickishness" comes first. The party merely becomes a destination.

[Midnight Writer]

24. Exactly. Like attracts like. The political parties are now divided according to personalities.

[peppertree]

25. I suspect it's child abuse - especially the psychological kind

Many Republicans had parents (typically the father) who lorded authority over them, and/or who (typically the mother) played favorites with the other siblings - leaving them the short end of the stick.

Unless they make a conscious effort to process all that, such people often become authoritarians with a yen for unfairness and the arbitrary - i.e. Republicans.

They grow up wanting to see their childhood conditions recreated - but for everyone.

[Initech]

26. I guess the world needs bad guys?

Today's conservatives are the opposite of everything that is good and decent in this world.

[EYESORE 9001]

27. Belligerence is a sign of alpha dominance

While we’re at it, you may as well lump every human trait that resembles altruism or empathy together and relegate that to the realm of pussified liberalism. All the characteristics is the asshole are worthy of emulation whenever possible. It’s bad enough that we’re fighting fascism, but now it’s cultural sociopathy. Sociopath Nation R Us.

[allegorical oracle]

28. Parents who convinced them that they'd never amount to much as long as all those "others" were

allowed to come in and "steal" their place in colleges and jobs. Those "others" included minorities of all stripes. Result was a widespread belief that they were victims whose rightful place had been stolen from them.

[LymphocyteLover]

29. No empathy

[Cyrano]

34. Absolutely. When you can't feel the pain of others,

there's either a missing gene, a mental defect, or a gigantic hole inside of you.

[LymphocyteLover]

40. or have been deeply traumatized themselves by their probably deeply traumatized conservative parents

generations of trauma....

or maybe that's you meant by a gigantic hole...

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

42. +1

[Dirty Socialist]

30. Arrogance

They think they’re better than others. My ultaconservative brither doesn’t even acknowledge the phrase “All men are created equal”

[JuJuChen]

31. easy, cause Democrats have that gentle answer turns away wrath mentality

Hard to be an asshole when you're not capable nor want to be.

[usonian]

36. They have NOTHING.

No sense of self, moral compass, compassion, heart.

Resort to cult behavior. Trying to find meaning in someone else's projection.

[ThoughtCriminal]

38. Prequisite

If they weren't dicks, they would not be Republicans.

[lpbk2713]

39. Because they're all jerkoffs?

[Chakaconcarne]

41. They refuse to adapt so are becoming irrelevant...and they can't get laid (cuz they're such dicks).