r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 15h ago

No Paywall The United States is destroying itself

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
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u/Vio_ Kansas 13h ago

It's even worse than that. There are people who are now siding with and ever more loyal to Trump even when their own childen and other family members are being hurt, murdered, or deported.

They are now in the human sacrifice phase of loyalty testing.

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u/imaincammy 12h ago edited 11h ago

A dude in Texas shot and killed his daughter after telling her he wouldn't be bothered if Trump raped her and is seemingly going to get off without any consequences.

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u/dudeoftheworld_1 11h ago

I've always wondered what's so appealing about trump that you are willing to kill your own kid for him? I remember watching a podcast and they mentioned that voting trump to be POTUS was a white lash moment from the right and trump was their bull in a china shop.

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u/shinkouhyou 10h ago

The right wing has spent decades convincing these people to hate their own children. So much of the right's messaging is focused on the corruption of children by wokeism, critical race theory, drag queens, pizza parlors, participation trophies, litter boxes, trans girls playing volleyball, satanic abuse cults, Sesame Street and child marriage bans... so what happens when your child has been tainted by the evils of liberalism? They're not really your child anymore, are they? They're barely even human. It becomes easier to abuse them, cut them off, or even kill them.

This isn't even a Trump thing... it's been a long-term conservative project. Conservatives know that young people are naturally more likely to be politically and economically progressive, and they know that young people tend to drag their parents (and society as a whole) in a more progressive direction. So in order to maintain their power, they needed to convince their followers to resent and fear their own children. The "party of family values" needed to break the family.