[postingpals]

> They resent being told what to do by what they perceive as elitist, out-of-touch folks in major coastal cities

They resent be told what to do by anyone. They were asked to wear masks by Dr Fauci, who is hardly a coastal elite, and many of them couldn't even do that.

I don't think republicans are necessarily bad people but their views are pretty bad and sure you can move to a red state for financial reasons or whatever but some people, especially minorities, can't just go and live with people who spread around covid or think cops are oppressed.

[jelliclesfarm]

Bringing up masks is a slight digression, but we complied in California. We wore masks. We worked from home and we shut down restaurants, gyms, schools..and yet, our infection rates are sky rocketing. It’s maddening and disheartening.

[cal5k]

> their views are pretty bad

So you really believe that the 74MM Americans who voted for a Republican president, not to mention all of the people who voted Republican down ballot and in state legislatures, are all just anti-mask, minority-hating troglodytes who support anything and everything police do?

It's the ridiculous minimization of complex issues that leads to polarization, not "Trumpism". Why would anybody who voted Republican even want to entertain your point of view when you hold nothing but patronizing contempt for them?

[postingpals]

No, look, i'm generalising. I know some people with liberal views who voted republican simply for tax purposes. Ignoring that this itself may be considered a bad view, I don't look down on republicans like some of my fellow liberal 'elites' do. I see them as human beings who I want to give healthcare and education to, like any other.

But, just as republicans have generalised the motivations of democrats to justify certain destructive behaviours, I generalise the actions of republicans.