Not a one of them believes that. Yes, it’s true, and that was explicitly the reason. But they would swear up and down that they voted for him because of money, not culture wars. A self-selling lie, to be sure, but if you want to understand their reasoning, you need to accept that they do not believe they were/are being self-defeating.

Again, if they believe, beyond their own ability to ignore it, that Trump os bad for THEIR finances, they’ll drop him. It’s in their selfish nature.

I 100% agree. However, and I hate that I’m saying this… She is correct. Cost of living is, beyond all doubt, the #1 issue for the American working class at this present time. We are feeling personally hurt in our pocketbooks, regardless of the subjective level of empathetic psychological harm we are experiencing, which obviously only applies to the ones who care for their fellow man.

Truly, if we want them out, it needs to be made very clear that the GOP is not financially in their personal best interests. Selfishness is a far greater motivator to empathy. I may see a starving child, but if I’m starving too? Shit man, I’ve never starved before. Who knows?

“If we just kiss Putin’s boot a little bit more, his failing economy will marry our failing economy and two negatives cancel out!”

-The Fool

Exactly. Better late than scared back to the other side…

Our system of policing in the US self-selects for bullies and tyrants and weeds out those who would seek justice over all, even if it meant going after their own.

I would love to ask a genuinely good cop why they feel the need to work exponentially harder to prove their moral character than, say, EMS or firefighters, clawing their public image from the rot of all the bad apples.

I would also ask them, bluntly, if they would ever blow the whistle on gross dereliction of honor from within their own ranks.