Reality Shattered

Some Republicans are good at deceiving others into thinking they're good people.
I live in a red state. None of them are good people. If they were, they wouldn't align with a party of hate.
- I live in a very red part of Florida. They've all been pretty nice to me. Of course, I'm white, my baby is blonde haired and blue eyed, and I'm in the military. They usually get pretty surprised when I open my mouth and start spouting crazy commie stuff like Trans Rights are Human rights.
  
  some republicans are ~~good people~~ not awful to literally everyone
  
  I'm a tall chubby cishet dude with a big beard in VA.
  People say the quiet part out loud to me within 3-5 minutes basically anytime I go to a bar or something, and all the normies treat me like I'm the asshole when I disagree with the guy saying trans people are too in his face and need to dress appropriately because they're such a nice guy otherwise.
  Well clearly they're not, are they, if they think entire sections of the population shouldn't be allowed to live their life (or whatever the subject is?)
  
  I'm a white redneck looking cis male in South Dakota. Many of these "nice" people think I'm one of them and will share their most abhorrent opinions with me, which they may not disclose in polite company. It's to the point that I have to wear "woke" shirts that say things like BLM or trans rights to avoid these monsters.
  I assure you my belief that Republicans are awful is not unfounded. Ask them what they think about LGBT+ people. "As long as they don't shove it down my throat..." Ask them what they think about Native people -- "That was so long ago, they need to get over [the genocide]." Ask them if climate change is real, ask them about the poor, ask them about undocumented workers.
  Republicans are unfit for society. They would immediately be cast out of any functional community, and rightfully so. The only way to deal with them is to socially and systemically deplatform and disenfranchise them. That's why I'd never make friends with a Republican.
  
  Get the fuck out of the military.
- If you are republican you believe in cutting social safety nets, pro war, anti gun regulation, and anti lgbtq. I view all of those as "bad people traits". I don't think anyone who can say they are for gutting welfare can also say they are a good person at heart.
  
  They might be polite to a fault, but they're still not good. I agree.
- Hard to describe, but this is one of the final confrontations of a story I’m writing, and I love it;
  “Look, you don’t get it. We don’t need to fight. I’m not with those racist psychopaths, I’m just following their orders and keeping my head down.”

If you vote republican, you're not a good person, and never have been since the party flip-flop. They've always been the party trying to suppress the rights of anyone who isn't a rich white male.
And now they're literally traitors trying to overthrow our government.
- I never would in a million years
  
  You don’t have to be the person who overthrows the government.
  Your vote is for people who incite the overthrowing.
  
  You just vote for a party that openly supports doing that.

Are you saying "some republican voters are good people" or "some republican politicians are good people"?
For the first one, that's probably true but irrelevant. I think most republican voters are trying to do good with their vote, but they've got so caught up in Republican fascism that they honestly think voting red is good.
For the second one, I highly doubt it. They don't have the cult behavior excuse, so at best, they're completely selfish, enough to put their job security over the lives of others.
- I agree strongly with you. The problem is weak leadership from the republicans. The people are just along for the ride on the most part. If the politicians weren’t so spineless and scared of losing their own power they might actually stand up to the shit ones for what they believe in
  
  Then you shouldn't just vote republican or democrat, but as an american. I don't label myself as either one - but over the last several elections the choice has been obviously democrat because of the republicans trying to seize power so much. If they could modernize their platform at all I would think about voting for them - but they're stuck in the 1950s.
  So to cut power stop voting on party lines. Show that you'll vote based on who has the best ideas, not a simple "I'll always vote R"

"I'm a good person. I just don't believe that kids should get food from the govt. So what if some kids are a little hungry. Their parents need to work harder"
- As Jesus wanted
  
  "Blessed are the meek, for they shall ~~inherit the earth~~ wash my car"

Are the nice Republicans in the room with us?
- That is funny as fuck

And some Catholics don't rape children. But they enable those who do.
- Same goes for cops. If you support the people who hurt others, you're complicit in the hurting of others.

If you support violent extremists that try to install a dictatorship you're not a good person.
- I do not support them no. If a kid steals a cookie is he a bad person or is he not thinking things through?
  
  Republicans aren't children stealing cookies.

Well this is just anectodotal you guys, but my mom is a Republican
And totally not a good person.
- My Dad is a Republican, and over COVID commented on my post about BLM that "protestors wouldn't be a problem if we just gunned them down."

Everybody else is shooting you down here, But I'll meet you in the middle with an even harder to swallow pill.
There are Republicans who AREN'T BAD people, they are just ignorant. Not stupid, necessarily, but ignorant and uneducated. They might think they're doing good but they are very very wrong.
- I worked with a guy that was a hard-core conservative, like just shy or real far-right talking points. Anyway he told me he doesn't watch the news. Not that he only watches fox news, I mean he doesn't watch any news at all. He gets his information from Facebook and tiktok
- Yes this is what I believe but im not right all the time either so I try to listen. Often it will just confirm what I thought to begin with but sometimes a see it a bit different

Some republicans think they are good people. There, fixed it for ya

You taking about the elected officials, or the voters? You'll have a much harder time finding politicians who are legitimately good people, let alone republicans.
- I used to work for Republicans, much to my chagrin. To your point: the elected officials know they are misleading ignorant average people. They understand exactly what they are doing, ESPECIALLY when they're at their most hypocritical. I heard it from their lips repeatedly. They are all fucked in the head, even in personal interactions. It's trashier WWE.

Well they sure do a good job of hiding it

Every "good person" I know of every political strip is horrifically cruel and violent towards intelligent creatures many times a day. Absolutely needlessly. And they deal with this by simply not thinking about it.
- Do you think there are some that are trying to balance everything as best they can? As in if they had to chose to cut health or housing you’re going to be an asshole either way
  
  Every single one of them are needlessly -- absolutely needlessly and to their own great detriment -- participating in atrocity against thinking, feeling creatures who once had the capacity to love them. There's no question of balance. Everyone loses.

very few*
- Like zero.

"We're good people, we just vote for politicians openly calling for violence and retribution upon all their political enemies and fellow Americans, and vote to make people different from us illegal, and vote to strip every safety net to pass directly to the 1%, and vote to protect our God given right to clear an elementary school in 20 minutes with an AR, etc etc etc"
- "We vote Republican cause it's a habit at this point"

Only if they don't vote for #fascists.
- If they don’t want to vote for fascists, they shouldn’t be in the Republican party.

some republicans are good people in the same way some cops are good cops.
... ARAC
- All Republicans Are Cops?
  
  Somehow less awkward than if he got it right...
  
  you got the last letter of the C-word right, but it's one letter too short.
- Good analogy. Imagine if there were no good cops
  
  There are a few but we must assume all cops are bastards as a matter of self defence because the consequences of being wrong about it are atrocious. But you know that, don't you?
  
  unfortunately, I entirely lack imagination. happily, however, this is not a case where one is needed.

Yeah but they are stupid. Its the same in my country. People are simply sheep so they vote for the person who they see the most in ads and thats the guy who distroyed our economy and does racist and homophobic stuff...

The good ones are usually very misguided people, oblivious to what they are really up to in my experience.

How can something so vague and superfluous be reality shattering?

It's hilariously ridiculous to know that those who downvoted this post can not accept such a simple reality.
- It is odd to observe. It’s like the idea of being right or wrong has zero nuance to these people and the only viewpoint is being 100% right about everything but then again, may be I’m wrong about that

Every person who think that their vote (in a representative democracy) matters, is a victim of the illusion of universal participation in the use of institutional coercion, that is, the state.
However, what makes the state different from other coercive entities, such as organized crime groups, is that it enjoys some form of popular legitimacy. In other words, in addition to enslaving its inhabitants physically, it needs to secure their mental servitude as well.