My complete thoughts on the subject are actually the two posts. There are idiots who really don’t follow any of the news - but all of their friends and family and church members are big GOP types. Since they don’t follow what is going on, they essentially fall back on “ I don’t follow who to vote for, but all my friends say vote for these guys, and they seem really upset if you are a Democrat, because it’s bad, so I guess I’m voting Republican”
My work colleague I mentioned was one of those people who weirdly was extremely religious, but seemingly completely uninformed on anything political. My small point was that people like that were not voting for Trump because they were racist and liked racist policies, some of the idiots had bought into three decades of “Democrats bad, GOP protected family values”, and they feel pressure from a societal point not getting sideways with all their friends and family and fellow church members.
You are exactly correct that if the people voting for the GOP knew exactly what the fuck was going on, but supported the GOP anyway to not get sideways with friends and neighbors, then those people get no pass whatsoever. In a way they are worse than the actual racists because they should know better. Since all of the politicians know exactly what is going on, they are the ones who have simply no defense of any kind.
I could’ve been clearer in my first post, but you can’t make me change my scotch drinking habits.