Many Republican voters are actually bad people that are racist or misogynist, or incredibly dumb, or incredibly selfish, or a combination.
The conservative machine that owns everything has fully captured their audience through the greatest propaganda system in the history of the world, and it’s been wildly successful. Fox, Newsmax, OANN, TPUSA, and others, all funded by Heritage, CPAC, and many many venture capital extremists like Peter Thiel, Andreeson Horowitz and others.
I’m non-republican in a family full of Republicans. I love my family. The thing they lack is empathy and foresight. They care about people of all religions, races, sexualities, etc. Just not when they’re people they don’t know. My grandmother is gay, we all love her. But some random gay person half the country away? They just don’t care. They lack the foresight to realize the gay person THEY know could well be next. Like the immigrants, we’re friends with plenty of immigrants, and the news tells them that bad things only happen to bad immigrants, so surely that wouldn’t mean OUR friends. Spoiler: it does. They see protests on the news being framed as terrorists, and wonder why the police aren’t being even harsher with them. Without wondering what it’d be like if those protestors were in our city, and people we know were being beaten like dogs. They live in their own world, it’s not as if they don’t care. They just only care when it’s the people around THEM, it’s literally the “oh shit the leopards ate MY face??”
Im not sure how representative my family in particular is, I’m sure there are plenty of Republicans who are genuinely just racist, sexist, etc against even people in their own community. But yeah, the propaganda runs deep.
Yep, the core different between a liberal and conservative is lack of empathy. Conservative brains are literally different than liberals, they have larger fear centers and seek comfort in authority. If they only care when it’s someone they know, then that’s personally affecting them, and making it a selfish lack of empathy thing.
I watch a podcast called The Necessary Conversation on Youtube and it further confirms this.