Summary: Republicans are 50/50, everyone else is strongly opposed.

  • BanMe@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    They love authoritarianism, more than they love other people, democracy, anything. There’s a certain amount of neural wiring involved, as people lean into it, their amygdala grows larger and their fear of “others” and “chaos” intensifies.

    When I saw my mom posting a fundraiser for the Ice murderer’s family last week, I realized a cop could beat me to death in front of her, and she’d tend to his bruised knuckles in apology. That was the very last straw, I don’t know her anymore.

    • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah David Frum famously wrote “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

      He’s a former neocon Bush speechwriter and an ardent anti-Trumper. He would know.

    • architect@thelemmy.club
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      9 hours ago

      That’s the distrust I think about every day, too. That so many would sell their families out for nothing.