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Hound was rounding off. It's 76%. White folk are 85% and Latinos 82%
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Here is a CNN segment. They reference Pew Reports.
Numbers are right at the start.
Interestingly the demand for voter ID has been rising among all groups (minorities, dems, repubs, independents) over the past 10 yrs or so.
I am guessing that the news bubble you live in tells you blacks do not want voter ID.
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And what problem does voter id solve?
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“Why is MAGA so hateful?
I get asked this a lot. The short answer is: because hate is the point. But let me break it down.
Grievance as identity
MAGA isn't a political movement built on policy. It's built on resentment. The core message has always been "you've been wronged" — by elites, by immigrants, by cities, by universities, by the media, by women, by minorities, by anyone who isn't you.
This isn't a coalition that comes together to BUILD something. It comes together to tear things down. Hate isn't a byproduct of the movement. It's the fuel.
Zero-sum thinking
They genuinely believe that if someone else gains, they lose. Rights for gay people? That's an attack on Christians. Immigrants succeeding? They must be stealing from "real Americans." A Black president? He must be illegitimate.
There's no concept of shared prosperity or expanding opportunity. Just winners and losers. And they're terrified of losing.
The dominance hierarchy
A lot of MAGA is rooted in evangelical and authoritarian psychology. There's supposed to be a natural order: white at the top, Christian at the top, male at the top, straight at the top.
When you've been at the top of a hierarchy your whole life, equality feels like oppression. Giving others a seat at the table feels like theft.
The media ecosystem
Fox News → OANN → Newsmax → podcasts → Twitter/X. It's a 24/7 rage machine. Every algorithm rewards outrage. Every host competes to be more extreme than the last.
These people are literally addicted to anger. Neurologically. They get dopamine hits from feeling righteous fury. They wake up and immediately check their phones to find out what they should be mad about today.
Turn it off for a week and they go through withdrawal.
Economic anxiety — weaponized
Here's the thing: a lot of the underlying pain is real. Deindustrialization gutted their towns. Opioids killed their families. Wages stagnated while costs exploded. The American Dream stopped working for them.
But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas, or the billionaires that rigged the economy, or the politicians that deregulated everything — they're taught to blame immigrants. To blame welfare recipients. To blame Black people in cities. To blame trans kids.
Classic fascist playbook: take legitimate economic anger and redirect it at the vulnerable.
The permission structure
Trump didn't create the hate. He just gave it permission.
For decades, these people were told to keep the quiet part quiet. Be polite. Use dog whistles. Then Trump came along and said the loud part loud — and nothing happened. No consequences.
He showed them they could be openly racist, openly cruel, openly contemptuous of democracy — and not only survive, but win.
"He fights" doesn't mean he fights for them. It means he's mean to people they don't like. The cruelty is the point.
Community built on enemies
This is the part people miss: MAGA is a community. For a lot of these people — especially older, rural, isolated Americans — it's their entire social world. Their friends are MAGA. Their family is MAGA. Their church is MAGA.
The hate is the membership card. The shared enemies are what bind them together. Leaving the movement doesn't just mean changing your politics. It means losing everyone you know.
So they double down. And double down again. Because the alternative is being alone.
The bottom line
Why is MAGA so hateful?
Because scared people + relentless propaganda + permission to be cruel + community built on shared enemies = hate as a lifestyle.
They're not going to be reasoned out of it. They weren't reasoned into it.
The only thing that works is making it socially and politically costly to be part of it. Outvoting them. Out-organizing them. And building something better that gives people a different place to belong.”
From @spooked75 on Twitter
I get asked this a lot. The short answer is: because hate is the point. But let me break it down.
Grievance as identity
MAGA isn't a political movement built on policy. It's built on resentment. The core message has always been "you've been wronged" — by elites, by immigrants, by cities, by universities, by the media, by women, by minorities, by anyone who isn't you.
This isn't a coalition that comes together to BUILD something. It comes together to tear things down. Hate isn't a byproduct of the movement. It's the fuel.
Zero-sum thinking
They genuinely believe that if someone else gains, they lose. Rights for gay people? That's an attack on Christians. Immigrants succeeding? They must be stealing from "real Americans." A Black president? He must be illegitimate.
There's no concept of shared prosperity or expanding opportunity. Just winners and losers. And they're terrified of losing.
The dominance hierarchy
A lot of MAGA is rooted in evangelical and authoritarian psychology. There's supposed to be a natural order: white at the top, Christian at the top, male at the top, straight at the top.
When you've been at the top of a hierarchy your whole life, equality feels like oppression. Giving others a seat at the table feels like theft.
The media ecosystem
Fox News → OANN → Newsmax → podcasts → Twitter/X. It's a 24/7 rage machine. Every algorithm rewards outrage. Every host competes to be more extreme than the last.
These people are literally addicted to anger. Neurologically. They get dopamine hits from feeling righteous fury. They wake up and immediately check their phones to find out what they should be mad about today.
Turn it off for a week and they go through withdrawal.
Economic anxiety — weaponized
Here's the thing: a lot of the underlying pain is real. Deindustrialization gutted their towns. Opioids killed their families. Wages stagnated while costs exploded. The American Dream stopped working for them.
But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas, or the billionaires that rigged the economy, or the politicians that deregulated everything — they're taught to blame immigrants. To blame welfare recipients. To blame Black people in cities. To blame trans kids.
Classic fascist playbook: take legitimate economic anger and redirect it at the vulnerable.
The permission structure
Trump didn't create the hate. He just gave it permission.
For decades, these people were told to keep the quiet part quiet. Be polite. Use dog whistles. Then Trump came along and said the loud part loud — and nothing happened. No consequences.
He showed them they could be openly racist, openly cruel, openly contemptuous of democracy — and not only survive, but win.
"He fights" doesn't mean he fights for them. It means he's mean to people they don't like. The cruelty is the point.
Community built on enemies
This is the part people miss: MAGA is a community. For a lot of these people — especially older, rural, isolated Americans — it's their entire social world. Their friends are MAGA. Their family is MAGA. Their church is MAGA.
The hate is the membership card. The shared enemies are what bind them together. Leaving the movement doesn't just mean changing your politics. It means losing everyone you know.
So they double down. And double down again. Because the alternative is being alone.
The bottom line
Why is MAGA so hateful?
Because scared people + relentless propaganda + permission to be cruel + community built on shared enemies = hate as a lifestyle.
They're not going to be reasoned out of it. They weren't reasoned into it.
The only thing that works is making it socially and politically costly to be part of it. Outvoting them. Out-organizing them. And building something better that gives people a different place to belong.”
From @spooked75 on Twitter
Awwwww...how cute. Here you are coming to E's rescue to defend him. Or did you forget who you logged in as? Talk in the 3rd person much?
Please. Continue.
<<chuckle>>
Now then..let's start by saying..NEVER use "common-sense" and either of you two clowns in the same sentence. We pretty much never see E say anything bad about JB other than he's old. Nothing about KH either. Or any other Dem for that matter. It's all about "T". Same for you.
I've said it before..and I'll say it again (unlike you two chuckleheads) that T or any other R or D guilty of any crimes should be punished.
Trump acts like a petulant child A LOT. Could he be a better public speaker? Of course. He's not a career politician. He's here doing a job
nobody else was willing to step up and do. The border is secure. Finally. Crime is down. (Dem-run cities not so much.) I could go on.
And as far as me being "insincere and disingenuous" goes...I think I've proven my point how full of $#!T both of you are.
Prove me wrong.
The fact that you even ask that shows how ignorant you really are.
I know many of you don't think Trump is presidential and acts like a 5th grader. Well, how would you be doing if you had to take on Satan and then help eradicate Satan and ITs demons from planet earth? Seriously people, wake up man. "Trump is an asshole." Hello, they & them steal $1T a year from us. As you go to work today, think you guys. Then we have liddle expola on here with only hate for t. expola's greatest ambition before he dies is to piss on a dead man's grave. That says it all about expola, case closed!!!
Listen to Catherine Herridge: https://1a-1791.com/video/fwe2/dd/s8/2/2/-/2/Y/2-2Yz.caa.mp4?b=1&u=ummtf
Did you hear what the top Intel guy said? "The Military is the only way." Q
"They called us liars for YEARS when we said Jeffrey Epstein wasn't running the trafficking - blackmail operation on that island — he was just a live-in guard dog for the Rothschild Central Banking family in England that use blackmail to enslave every country in the world.
Former federal investigators now openly state that Jeffrey Epstein was running an intelligence collection operation and not just a trafficking ring.
The evidence includes emails tied to the Rothschild Central Banking family, audio of ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak being instructed by Epstein to list people who "owe him favors" or even "owe him their life," and photos of politicians, including a British MP in his underwear." TS Military Anon
Listen to Catherine Herridge: https://1a-1791.com/video/fwe2/dd/s8/2/2/-/2/Y/2-2Yz.caa.mp4?b=1&u=ummtf
Did you hear what the top Intel guy said? "The Military is the only way." Q
"They called us liars for YEARS when we said Jeffrey Epstein wasn't running the trafficking - blackmail operation on that island — he was just a live-in guard dog for the Rothschild Central Banking family in England that use blackmail to enslave every country in the world.
Former federal investigators now openly state that Jeffrey Epstein was running an intelligence collection operation and not just a trafficking ring.
The evidence includes emails tied to the Rothschild Central Banking family, audio of ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak being instructed by Epstein to list people who "owe him favors" or even "owe him their life," and photos of politicians, including a British MP in his underwear." TS Military Anon
Does the guy know Bill Clinton was only into the ladies?
She looks exactly like I thought she would.
You guys know what a woman is now?
Attention Fence Sitters (wishy washy watty)
Please Read, Strategically Guided Awakening
Let’s think deeply together. When the SAVE ACT passes the Senate, the Democrat Party is effectively dead.
When the filibuster is “nuked” in the Senate, the Uniparty is effectively dead as well.
And yet neither party ever passed this type of act over decades when they had the chance? Why? Their puppet masters wouldn’t let them. They needed the chaos and control of a uniparty disguised as a two party system of fake checks and balances.
So if you can’t easily stop the puppet masters, you must start to change the population’s mindset. That takes about a decade for any new concept.
Now ask yourself what had to happen to get 80% of America to support this legislation. Before the 2020 Election, only about 50% supported this legislation, and about 90% of those were conservatives.
So what changed? Moderate Liberals have switched sides. Why? They suffered since 2020. They won’t admit it. They won’t telegraph it. They won’t ever apologize. They will just follow the ever increasing majority like well trained lemmings.
These selfish wishy washy people are the targets of the Great Awakening. In a perverse way, they are essential to our future. They just don’t know it. We must get them to choose us over them. And they can be swayed only through selfish suffering.
Now consider the ridiculously slow release of the Epstein Files. These same wishy washy lemmings are the target. The real goal is to get 80% of them comfortable with military tribunals as the only way to secure justice through our courts. Getting close.
Now consider the overtly Orwellian COVID lockdowns. Apply the same logic. And so on.
My point is that until about 80% of the population supports a “shift”, the change will not last. The lemmings are needed. Lead the lemmings." TS Anon SeventySeven
Please Read, Strategically Guided Awakening
Let’s think deeply together. When the SAVE ACT passes the Senate, the Democrat Party is effectively dead.
When the filibuster is “nuked” in the Senate, the Uniparty is effectively dead as well.
And yet neither party ever passed this type of act over decades when they had the chance? Why? Their puppet masters wouldn’t let them. They needed the chaos and control of a uniparty disguised as a two party system of fake checks and balances.
So if you can’t easily stop the puppet masters, you must start to change the population’s mindset. That takes about a decade for any new concept.
Now ask yourself what had to happen to get 80% of America to support this legislation. Before the 2020 Election, only about 50% supported this legislation, and about 90% of those were conservatives.
So what changed? Moderate Liberals have switched sides. Why? They suffered since 2020. They won’t admit it. They won’t telegraph it. They won’t ever apologize. They will just follow the ever increasing majority like well trained lemmings.
These selfish wishy washy people are the targets of the Great Awakening. In a perverse way, they are essential to our future. They just don’t know it. We must get them to choose us over them. And they can be swayed only through selfish suffering.
Now consider the ridiculously slow release of the Epstein Files. These same wishy washy lemmings are the target. The real goal is to get 80% of them comfortable with military tribunals as the only way to secure justice through our courts. Getting close.
Now consider the overtly Orwellian COVID lockdowns. Apply the same logic. And so on.
My point is that until about 80% of the population supports a “shift”, the change will not last. The lemmings are needed. Lead the lemmings." TS Anon SeventySeven