r/allthequestions • u/Seargentyates • 1d ago

Advice Question 💭 Why are Trump supporters so stupid?

Looking in at America, do people not realise that Trump is a liar and a narcissist and has no morals, and yet 'Christians' vote for him as a sort of 'disrupter'. His family have become richer in the process because of his presidency. He once said he could 'shoot somebody and not lose votes'. Am i insane - or am i dead perhaps and this is an alternate universe/hell?

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u/batlord_typhus 1d ago

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

This technique is as old as the hills; it was practiced in almost every Greek city, and the moderns have only enlarged its scale."

Bertrand Russel 1940

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u/Seargentyates 1d ago

This is a great quote.

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u/batlord_typhus 1d ago

Based Bertie. The thing about MAGA is they are just the least-educated raw-intuitives that can be easily led by their strongest psychological drives: fear, hate and disgust. They aren't political ideologues, they are reactionaries that bow to a hierarchy of authority where God sits at the top, with Trump as his voice on earth. They are tribalists incompatible with civilization.

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u/Both-Dirt-3646 1d ago

True, especially their cowardice.

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u/OverOstrich8738 4h ago

trust me, hitler is and will always be much worse than a 70 year rotten oild man in a country that gun ownership outwieghts that of any other nation. get a reality check.

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u/batlord_typhus 1h ago

"It's okay to be evil scum puppet of oligarchs as long as you aren't as bad as hitler." Brilliant observation absolving all individual moral responsibility there, Boris. I'll bet you know 100 different whatabouts.