Seriously, I'd like to know. I really don't get it.
Okay, you want a serious answer here it goes:
I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, things were very apolitical. Yes, Republicans and Dems squabbled over stuff, but from what I remember it was all about tax code. Republicans losing their minds over Dems wanted to raise taxes 2%. Democrats losing their minds over a 2% tax cut. I always thought it was a bit silly.
I had a grandmother that was a staunch Democrat. She always praised FDR, mainly because she literally lived off social security to pay her small apartment rent. She was never nasty about Republicans, the most she ever did was joke about “tricky Dick”. However, I do remember one day she confided in me that she voted for Bob Dole over Bill Clinton. She felt almost ashamed of it, as if she betrayed the Democrat Party. Mainly because she read a book about Clinton and I guess that was enough to horrify her. I didn‘t care one way or the other, I certainly didn’t vote.
Some years later I joined the military, during Clinton. I remember the older guys hated Clinton for gutting the military. But I didn‘t really care, the Cold War was over, as was the Gulf War, so why did we need a big budget? It was peace time. The 2000 election came and I remember no one cared who won. Again I didn‘t vote.
Then 9/11 happened, and we were at war. The country was united. Then began the talk of invading Iraq. Our intel agencies were saying they had WMD, and were sponsoring terrorism. We don’t question our three letter agencies, do we? All the major Dems voted for it, despite pretending they were against the war. Hillary, Kerry, Chucky, Biden, they all voted for it. So the war was authorized, and it began. I remember laughing out loud when I heard it was being called “Operation Iraqi Freedom”. I thought, “are you fucking kidding me?” Muslims don’t want democracy or freedom. I thought we were just going in to destroy WMD?
Then Abu Ghraib happened. I watched first hand how our own US media plastered photos of supposed tortured Iraqis all over the TV every day. Watched as they lied about “systemic torture” by the Bush Administration. I was no fan of Bush, but this was an outright lie. The story was first broke by the Army Times, but no one cared until much later when the photos leaked. The perps were already being investigated. The supposed “abuse” only took place for about two days, then was quickly stopped when other soldiers and officers found out. But the lying MSM didn’t care. They could use it to attack George W. Bush, that’s all they cared about, and they didn‘t care how many US soldiers got killed from increased terror attacks over it. That was my first wake up call to how absolutely evil the Democrats were.
Then came Obama. The Dems were in an anti-war frenzy, and were acting like they were going to end the wars in the Middle East and bring the troops home. I, however, knew this was complete bullshit. All those Dems voted for the war, and there was big money being made from it. There was no way they were going to stop these wars. Sure enough after the Hussein got elected, did he draw down troops? Did he end the wars? Of course not. What happened to all the pink hat protesters? Oh, it was all a giant grift. None of the Democrats were serious about ending the wars.
In fact, the Hussein got us involved in more wars. He bombed the Libyan government out of existence, another country that never attacked us and was no threat. Then backed a bunch of terrorists in Syria, causing a full out civil war there and a huge refugee crisis for Europe. ISIS exploded and took over a large part of the Middle East. All thanks to Obama’s foreign policy, a complete disaster.
One thing I always hated about Republicans was their stance on “free trade”. We needed tariffs put on China to protect our manufacturing. Instead, these assholes let manufacturing get destroyed and put in the hands of communist China. Dems at least used to care about blue collar workers, but over time that was abandoned for big Corpo money.
Then something happened. Donald Trump came along. He was saying things like we need to put tariffs on China. We need to build the important things for ourselves again. We need to stop these stupid wars overseas. We were lied to about WMD. The reaction from the Establishment GOP and Democrats solidified my support for him. They couldn’t explain why we needed to remain subservient to China, or why we needed to bomb more countries.
So he won, and we got four years of no new wars. Tariffs on China, 500,000 manufacturing jobs created. A secure border for once. He cut the funding and supplies to Syrian “rebels”, and magically ISIS went away, wiped off the map. He got Arab nations to recognize Israel. This man did more in four years as President than all the previous idiots from the last 30 years.
Of course the Deep State and warmongers in Washington hated him for this. He was showing America we don’t need to be at war to be prosperous. So, they had to rig an election to get rid of him. They installed their ultimate Establishment moron, who has never voted against a trade deal that fucked this country over, and who has never said no to a war. He is also so corrupt with Ukrainian and CCP money they could completely control him, not to mention he is functionally braindead. Now they got the holy grail of wars they‘ve wanted, an indefinite proxy war with Russia.
Now with all the shit we know: the Obama Regime spied on him, the FBI and CIA spied on him and actively tried to undermine him during his Presidency. They lied about Russia collusion, they lied about the Ukraine call. Two impeachment hoaxes. FBI and CIA working directly with social media to censor American’s free speech, and to squash the Hunter story in order to protect Biden‘s election chances.
The question is, how the hell can anyone still support the Democrat Party, the Establishment RINO GOP, and the FBI/CIA that does the bidding of them?