This just in: I have a close friend that is a Republican. He is smart, well education and considers himself a patriot. However, when it comes to defending his party’s actions, his response is always something like “they all do it.”
Now, if this is true. If they are all basically alike, why not just toss a coin every election cycle and vote based on heads or tails. Why always vote the same way if “they all do it?”
I can’t answer this question and neither can he.
When I point out that gun legislation may reduce gun deaths he agrees and then says, “The Constitution does not allow for that.” It’s as if we can’t have seatbelt laws because The Constitution does not allow for that.
When I point out that QANON sent a guy will a gun to a pizza place because he thought Hilary Clinton was running a child porn ring in the basement, he says, “That’s not a Republican thing.” (spoiler, there was no basement)
We’ll maybe not but I’m not reading ANYWHERE about Democrats doing crazy stuff because QANON told them to.
QANON told Republicans to storm the capital and they did. It told women not to get vaccinated because it would make them infertile so they didn’t. It said the election was stolen and today, 72% of Republican still believe this!
Rudy Giuliani, who spewed the most “election was stolen” nonsense, recently, under oath, admitted that he thinks he got this from a post he read on Facebook but isn’t sure. He went on to talk about a reliable witness that he never met or interviewed. This witness and the Facebook post kept him in the news for months as he spewed lies as if they were facts.
Republican ran up a $7.8 trillion dollar debt in 4 years with nothing to show for it.
Republicans lied to get us into war in the Middle East and 20 years later we left and everything collapsed around our little sand castle government.
Republicans pass laws to keep non-white and non-Christians out of the country.
Democrats do non of this and yet I still hear “they all do it.”
Here is my theory: The Republican mind is one that wants American to return to the days of Mayberry RFD. Simple times. No rap music. Everyone goes to a Christian church on Sunday. The military is fresh off a win in WWII. Non-whites are kept in their own separate part of town.
In short, the future scares them so they try to stop it from happening. Thus…Conservatives.
A White, Christian country…run by white old men.
I don’t know about you but I’m not about to sit back and say, “Yep, I gotta get me some of dat.”
“They all do it” is code for “I’m a racist but I can’t admit it even to myself so I rely on this weak retort.”
When I see a Republican, I think, “I wonder if that person knows that their actions promote racism or are they openly racist?”
By the way, when a Republican reads this, they will explode. “How dare he say that. I know a black guy and I treat him like an equal.” Thus….not a racist? Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
Time to save the world.
Up, up and away.
You’ve just described the majority of my Republican friends and family. And, no, they do not believe they are racist, and yes, they do insist “some of my best friends are Black!” as if that absolves them from their own abject and willful ignorance about racism in this country. They may not know terms like false equivalency and confirmation bias, but they are still knee deep in the rot that has become the Republican party in our lifetime. I find it appalling that people with any education at all, not to mention a functional pre-frontal cortex, can still belong to the GOP.