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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm beginning to think there is something in the republican brain that Impedes their understanding
of irony.
They rail against helping people without a job, until they lose their job. Theyll argue against a womans right to bodily autonomy, until they want an abortion. They go on and on about how much they love America, but side with a foreign hostile government over the word of Americas career agencies. They hate Obamacare, but love the ACA.
I truly have no clue what happens in your brain when you fail to see what is in front of your face.
Snackshack
(2,540 posts)Its called hate. It is a primal emotion that republicans have in abundance. After years of listening to right wing radio, TV, their Senators/ Representatives go on and on about how horrible and America hating libs progressives Dems are they are filled with it.
rampartc
(5,263 posts)or trump - the guy who never had a drink, does not dance, claims not to take drugs, and hung out at studio 54 for a decade.
they are the real patriots who were too busy to serve their country, preferring to wear flag pins from china. they believe putin rather than the cia until they want to claim iran is terrorist.
this is a fun game. I may be back.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)rampartc
(5,263 posts)onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)And idolize a self proclaimed pussy grabber.
iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,598 posts)Fed a steady diet of intolerance for so many people from the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, etc. One thing I have observed, is that folks who are Trump fans are also fans of people like the ones Ive mentioned. They actually do not see Trump as outspokenly rude and crude and nasty, they see him as telling it like it is. Its so insidious and disturbing.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)lastlib
(22,978 posts)I have never encountered one in my travels.
Funtatlaguy
(10,855 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Don't wonder why an idiot is an idiot you'll spend too much time wondering.
Don't try to reason or argue with an idiot they'll still be an idiot when you're done talking.
Freddie
(9,231 posts)In other languages that dont exactly translate to English? We need to invent a new word for Republican hypocrisy. Its different than regular hypocrisy. They have no concept that it is indeed hypocrisy and its as common as breathing to them. Like I once tried (futilely, as always) arguing with a RWNJ friend on FB that you cant call yourself pro-life when youre pro-gun. I gave up quickly.
KG
(28,748 posts)raccoon
(31,088 posts)Did you say reptilian brain?
Oh excuse me I misread it.
SharonAnn
(13,766 posts)nuxvomica
(12,358 posts)People who lack empathy don't get sarcasm and probably irony as well. Empathy is related because it requires the ability to put yourself in another's place, to think outside yourself. Irony requires a similar extension of understanding, to sort of view your own words and actions as they appear to others. But this empathy deficit is actually correctable. Subjects who were given literary fiction to read had higher empathy scores when tested afterward than those given genre fiction. The theory is that litfic focuses on the inner lives of its characters, training the reader's mind to think about what's going on in other peoples' heads. If only we could get right wingers to read Virginia Woolf or E.M. Forster, our country's problems could be solved.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)which leads to authoritarian personalities. The world is a frightening place from which they need protection. There is no room for irony when you are afraid.
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts)onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts).
Trump could call MAGAts assholes, and they eat that shit up and say, "Yum!"
"Yes, Trump, I agree with you, we are assholes."
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