I'd love for this to be the case, because it would imply the problem could be educated out of them.

Instead, I believe, based on a mountain of evidence being in what the actual talking points of the republicans are, that people are instead so much more focused on hurting the people they believe should be hurt, that they are willing to make ridiculous, absurd, obviously poor trade sacrifices in order to hurt those people.

I think that they basically majority feel this way, until they specifically are hurt, and then in those situations, its not like their viewpoints have changed, except that they don't want to be hurt themselves.

To me, this is the only theory that makes sense and explains everything, like even how some marginalized people like many latin people (such as cubans) support the regime.

They believe themselves to be better than their neighbours and think their neighbours deserve pain. Only when they themselves, personally, experience that they, infact, will never be accepted as the ingroup, do they actually have a temporary change of heart.

Unfortunately, for all of these people to have that temporary change of heart, so many would be dead it wouldn't make a difference.

This is just one of the many reasons its wasted effort to try to convert maga people, and makes much more sense to try to wake up the people with voter apathy.

Still waiting for all those talking heads to try out waterboarding themselves so they can prove how gentle it is.

If it was, Kahled Sheik Mohammed would be the world heavyweight champion