cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9405812
“We are going to do something that I will say is slightly controversial but it shouldn’t be. We are going to indemnify policemen and precincts and states and cities from being sued. We want them to do their job. Our police and law enforcement has to come back and they want to come back and they want to do their job. And we are going to indemnify them so they don’t lose their wife, their family, their pension, and their job. We are going to indemnify policemen and law enforcement. We are going to tell them to get out, we love you, do your job.” – Trump, speaking last night at the New York Young Republicans Club gala.
Trump going after the tyrant vote.
It’s interesting isn’t it? Say Republicans are voting against their self interest, and everyone will agree. Say black voters are doing the same, and it becomes a whole lot more controversial.
Probably because the racial history behind it, but I appreciate your candor. And of course I don’t think you’re being racist, you’re seeing this as an economic thing vs a race thing, unless I’m mistaken.
Anyway, it does make you think. I’m not a fan of telling people I know better than them, yet I have no problem saying that about Republicans. It’s food for thought, and a self analysis I’ve been working on for a while. I’m glad that you brought it up.
There are very clearly some things we know Republican voters are wrong about – LGBT rights, climate change, race and sex, etc. And we know Republican politicians are playing them like a fiddle. But do we know better than them? Or are we not seeing what they’re seeing? Are we missing something, like perhaps misjudging their priorities and views? Either we’re all intellectually superior to all of them, or there’s an understanding we lack. Maybe if we gained that, we could actually sway them politically.
And I know we probably disagree if it is in their self interest or against it, but I figured a river of my thoughts would end up being more productive for us both.