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Or completely misinformed. Fox has got a pretty impressive reality distortion machine up and running.

If someone votes for Trump, 'tuning out' all the corruption and fascism, misogyny and hatred that he represents, then they are either fucking idiots, or truly evil. "Biden's too old" - Well, Trumpty Dumpty isn't much younger, and he's evil. "What about Hunter's Laptop" - Giuliani lost a defamation suit because of that laptop. And nobody with any expertise who's looked at it has said it has any chance of being real. What about Jared's 2 BILLION from the Saudis? The list could go on and on and on. But Trump is still evil. And anyone who supports him is responsible for supporting that evil.

What I said was the justification/rationale/reasoning for stereotyping is the same. When you make general categorizations about an entire group based on a few - that is stereotyping. I do not/will not lump all Democrats as Communists/Marxists, because it is an unfair association.

Agree. Its gets lost in the noise sometimes but about 50% of all Americans are republicans. IMO only 10% are racists. Keep in mind that democrats have racists in their party as well.

Bigun wants to be seen as a victim? I've never met him but I doubt thats the case. Or do you mean that trump wants to be the victim?

Hi Wendy, One of my best friends is a member of the GOP. However, he does say that if Trump gets the nomination, he will resign from the party. As for the 'same brush:' I will NOT vote for any member of the GOP until they disavow Trump. Jerry Baumchen

Goodness, and deary me, there are deluded morons of all races?

No-one is forced to watch Fox. It's a deliberate choice.

...... There is a VERY strong parallel between the rise of Hitler and the rise of Trump. Trump uses Hitler's (translated) rhetoric and parrots his policies. Former wife Ivana even said he kept a copy of Hitler's speeches by his bed when they were married (and he didn't deny it). Choosing to be uninformed about someone you openly support and intend to vote for is not like being uninformed about womens' fashion or TV shows. It is either stupid or evil in and of itself. I seriously doubt that you intend to influence fashion or TV shows despite your lack of information in the same way an uninformed voter influences the outcome of an election.

Voters vote for many reasons. Most identify with a few, perhaps 10-15 major reasons. Then narrow it down to a half dozen issues of most importance. For some its guns, government involvement in the economy, religion, the USSC, military spending, etc. Not everyone is a political animal so to speak like the participants in this forum. Most people tune out issues that they think don't effect their lives. That doesn't make them stupid, racists, fascists, etc. Its why most republicans don't recognize the dangers associated with trump. The US survived one experience with the cancer of trump. It would survive another. But I wouldn't wish cancer on most anyone.

Meh. Like everything else in this world, Apple has pluses and minuses. So does Microsoft/PC. An old (like late 90s old) joke is that half the world thinks that Steve Jobs is the Messiah, and Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ. The other half thinks the exact opposite. I prefer PC myself, but a friend is a die-hard Apple user. For me, the pluses of the PC outweigh the minuses, and the minuses of Apple outweigh the pluses. For my friend, the opposite is true.

How about you spend a minute and tell us what the non MAGA Republicans are doing about the festering abcess currently at the heart of their party.

Only those Rs that choose to fall in line behind the wannabe Hitler should feel that way.

So what are these "good" Republicans doing about the cancer in their party?

All people are racist to some extent, including black people and other minorities. It's part of tribalism and being human. But we can each control our behaviors. Trump and it seems many conservatives choose to use that fact to divide us from each other and gain power through manipulating our feelings. None of us can really ever know what is in another's heart. So we must judge them by their actions. The current leader of the R party behaves in a racist manner and since he is the leader the others are followers. Clearly his followers are willing to accept his racism. That means they are behaving in a racist manner. This is not stereotyping, this is fact.

It might be too subtle Wendy P.

Doing it a little too brown there. Bigun is no racist, and he's making no such claims. He is suggesting that painting all Republicans with the same brush is just as wrong as painting all of any group Wendy P.

OK, I think I understand what you're saying, but it's slurs rather than stereotypes that generally get you bounced. And generally only when applied to other posters. Yeah, it's a fine line, and kind of wiggly and fuzzy too. Wendy P.

No you’re not. You are making an entirely disingenuous comparison with the aim of arguing that your own decisions should be as immune from criticism as the skin colour someone else was born with. If you claim that you can’t understand why that’s not the rule, you’re just lying.