I will not be voting for Trump or Harris, but it's truly alarming to utterly fail to understand why someone would vote for Trump (or Harris, for that matter.)
It says a lot about people if they are completely unable to put themselves in the shoes of someone who thinks differently from them, holds different opinions, has different life experiences. Of course you can never truly understand someone else's experience, but to fail so badly...
It shows a lack of all of the traits people on the left lay claim to: empathy, intelligence, emotional insight, sophistication, etc.
If your imagination only goes to "they must be stupid/racist/sexist/homophobe nazis" then I have some bad news for you. That wasn't your imagination working at all, because you didn't come up with it: you got it from your version of Fox news and you imprinted it so strongly into yourself that it became your identity. Now that believing Trump and all of his followers are stupid Nazis IS your identity, you are incapable of understanding what's going on, and why suddenly half of the voting public are stupid Nazis.
You're confused because the part of your brain that still tries to find patterns, connect dots and seek consistency sees this scenario and notices that it doesn't seem to add up. And you're right, it doesn't add up - but it's because of a defect in your worldview that PREVENTS you from seeing the world outside of the narrative tracks laid for you by your Fox news.
Your Fox news does this kind of thing because you eat it up and they get more views and sell more ads. Yelling about their Fox news doing the same thing for the same reason is just being a hypocrite if you're not going to step out of your own cable news narrative train track.
I think if you try a little harder and start from a place of true empathy, intelligence, emotional insight and sophistication, you'll come to a different conclusion and see these 70+ million fellow citizens of yours in a different light. I hope. As it is, it kind of seems like you're not actually interested in learning why someone would vote for Trump. It seems like you just want to thump your chest and double down on calling them racists.
Calling everyone who disagrees with you a racist is a weird tactic if you intend to not just get them to vote differently - but to live next to you and share a culture and society with you. What's your plan for dealing with these Nazis, otherwise?
