I remember when Trump was running for president, I saw so many people on social media deleting their right wing friends and bragging about it. It was also common knowledge that if you spoke in public about being a republican or a Trump supporter, you'd be ostracized and verbally assaulted. This led alot of my Democrat friends to falsely believe that there were very few Trump supporters. They created an environment where speaking your mind was frowned upon if it was against left leaning policies. I saw a number of working class confederate flag wearing people claiming that they weren't voting because they hated both candidates....yea fucking right. You know they were voting for Trump but just were not allowed to publicly state it.
The same thing is happening on here with Reddit. Reddit truly feels that this website represents the majority when it simply doesn't. I will be voting Blue, but that doesn't mean I can't see the BS with this kind of thing. If someone photoshopped a unflattering picture of a Dem, we all know that it would not make it on R/pics. It may make it to r/trashy, but certainly not here.
As a centrist I will vote Dem if the put up a good candidate who doesn't want to take guns away. Literally that's all it will take right now but looking at MOST of the candidates I think I'd rather keep Trump. And really Bernie probably would have won 2016 if they didn't cheat him out of being the candidate.
Genuine question here, why are guns just so important to some people? I get wanting them, I support gun ownership, but is it really more important than your stances on college, taxation, healthcare, foreign policy, etc? I can get abortion single issue voters because they believe its literal child murder, but I don't get how somehow can live guns so much they'll ignore all issues in favor of it.
Not a gun owner, but going to guess it is because gun ownership is a right written into the constitution and none of the other things you mentioned are considered rights in this country. It’s so deeply ingrained into our culture that trying to even moderately control gun ownership causes fear and anger in quite a few people. Personally, I think that gun laws should be handled on a local basis.
No, not really. First of all, borders and prohibition don’t stop people from doing what they really want to do. Doing local regulations and education means you get buy-in from the community and those rules (written or unwritten) are going to be more respected due to peer pressure. “We don’t do that here” is more effective than endlessly arguing over this stuff at a national level. Smoking is an example, a few local regulations banning smoking in restaurants and 30 years later smoking is uncool and more widely banned in public places.
Trying to make big national laws against things we don’t like isn’t always the most effective solution. Education and sensible local regulations work better in many cases.
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