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In reply to the discussion: Two female Trump voters in a row yesterday! [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)I don't know if they do it to prove something or out of true charity. They hide behind that to say that they don't dislike poor people, they just don't think the government should be the way they are taken care of. But really it's do they can decide who among the poor "deserve" to be taken care of.
They can also be kind to people of color - same thing - they want to be the "superior" who so kindly helps the less fortunate. Like the old fashioned "noblesse oblige" they want to be of a higher class. I have a relative like this, did very well, was getting cancer treatment (he's rich and he's OK now) met an undocumented Mexican who also had cancer and was trying to help him get status to stay in the US for treatment as US expense! But he would never care about such people generally, just one guy he knew personally and liked.
People can be very complex. This relative is a Trumper, of course, and always Republican. Most of the people in my family who are older are solidly Republican since Roe v. Wade. They are Catholic and that is their only issue.