I can dig it!

Ironic. Though historically not, "calling a spade a spade" has become associated with race and derogatory undertones in the US in the last 100 years. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade

It isn't even "Ate my face" so much as folks who were sold a bill of goods by conservative propagandists

• Family Values!
• Christian schools!
• No crime!
• Patriotic Unity!
• Entrepreneurship and an Honest Work Ethic!

only to get there and discover

• Spousal Abuse! Child Abuse! Rape! Intense Misogyny!
• What kind of nerd needs an education? Get a job you stupid kids!
• Lawlessness!
• Deep misanthropy wrapped in the American Flag!
• Scams! Price gouging! Poverty!

Turns out a liberal is just a conservative who has been mugged by reality.

There is but only mods can post there. 🙄

Based only on some recent posts and comments I've seen about hispanic conservatives in general, I would guess it was because they are religious and feel they need to align with Republicans because of that. Now they have learned that Republican-style Christianity doesn't really resemble Jesus-style Christianity.

But also - isn't Idaho literally the whitest state? Or is that Iowa?

They are "conservatives" because they think they are better than other people.

No joke, there is an immigrant in my state running the the GOP primary on the platform that immigration is broken and we need to fix the border.

When you talk to these people, it literally is about how it's okay because they are the good race. It's those at the border that are ruining America.

He talks about how his parents came here legally and how legal immigration is okay.

My brother in Christ, do you not realize that the GOP is trying to make it illegal for any immigration to occur? You're pulling the ladder after you, oh I'm sorry, your parents climbed on the ship. Now you're telling everyone below that they are dirty and lazy for not making it up without a ladder.

But they're one of the good ones. Massa loves the good ones 😭

Nobody wants ALL of the things fascism claims to represent; in many ways it’s not even possible.

Because it's not a thinking ideology, it's a feeling ideology. This has been studied and proven that conservatives lean more reactive and emotionally sensitive.

See, the human brain doesn't work the way most people think it does, we live with the misconception that we use our brains to decode the world, to solve problems and figure out solutions and analyze situations.

This is NOT what your brain is doing. Right now, and at all times, your brain is scanning how you feel, all your physical and emotional sensations, and it's constantly creating stories to explain those feelings, ever shifting and constantly reporting these subtle ideas for why you are experiencing things.

About 100,000 years ago this was a fantastic survival tool. If you see huge paw-prints by the watering hole, you will figure out in your head why you're scared, you will invent a simulated future where the creature that lives nearby will eat you, so you avoid that watering hole.

Now our world is massively complicated, but our brains are still wired to do the same thing. It takes an emotion or sensation and just wraps a story around it with ease, and the funniest part is the story doesn't have to make sense, it's just how the brain assembles information and synthesizes results. This is why you have anti-vax doctors and nurses and scientists who suddenly become Flat Earthers. They aren't using logic and reason, they are scared of something and their brain supply the rationalization. Be it a huge paw print, or a newspaper headline about climate change, it makes people feel the same thing, and react the same way.

See the thing about leftism is that it's usually internally consistent. Authoritarianism cannot be internally consistent.

You should see hexbear.

Probably too white washed to realize

Not for affordability. That's because of the weather and Boomers who bought houses for $200K that are now worth $1 million +.

If you already own a house and like living in it, you have no costs besides maintenance and property tax. Property taxes in California are limited by Proposition 13, so they're minimal.

That means that plenty of boomers are just hanging out in houses with huge opportunity costs but no real costs. They could rent them out for a ton of money, but they don't need to. Thus the rental market is limited.

Are you sure about that?

A lot of the republicans’ voter base is white racists. For them, the republicans being racist isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.