Pedophilia is rare. Stranger danger is just weird dudes and busybodies. I mean, protect your kids, and protect them from the loonies who want to control your family.
People who want to hurt children are not limited to one political group or religious or social whatever. They're fucked up.
They stick together? Sure they don’t allow each other to be prosecuted, but they bicker like cats attempting to herd each other
Most of them are probably not pedophiles - they get off on the manipulation and power trip. Unfortunately, it's that it's easier to victimize children. They'll victimize adults just as readily, given the opportunity.
Pedophilia is pretty rare. These folks are socio/psychopaths and narcissists - they believe that there is nothing wrong with them.
I think these are just the ones who get caught and that there are hundreds more
"I think" is the operative statement there. What you think is pointless. Facts are what matter. And without evidence that it IS the majority doing it, automatically lumping them all into that group makes us no better than them in terms of their rhetoric and divisiveness.
Every damn side needs to stop painting the other with broad strokes and then complaining when they do it back. It's not helpful. Questions that are worded like this are not helpful.
They do this to hide and normalize a whole range of abhorrent behavior.
Seriously! Even without the pedophelia, they’re fucking crooks every one of them. They’re all into shady business stuff. Their lives and their very meaning for existence is the insatiable hunger for more and more wealth and power. These are the worst monsters around.
They tend to be more authoritarian. That means they're more likely to prioritize in-group above all else.
There's a book about authoritarian personalities I was reading a while ago. It talks about an experiment where they did like a model UN, but secretly sorted all the authoritarian types into one game and everyone else into the other.
The authoritarians ruined the world. Like, nuclear war. When they got a do-over, they still fucked it up.
The other group basically cooperated and solved world hunger.
Authoritarians probably shouldn't be allowed in positions of power. The GOP attracts a lot of them.
Authoritarians probably shouldn't be allowed in positions of power.
Isn't the old saying that the ones who crave power are least suited for it?
What was the book?
I'd be curious to read about the experiment in particular
...It's not even close to the majority of people in the GOP. It's not even a particularly large minority
Jesus fucking christ.
Even if it was 100 people every single day that were being, caught, arrested, or convicted for CSAM or sexual misconduct of some kind with a minor, and every single one of them was in the GOP, that's still 365,000 out of about 140,000,000, which is .2%, on an annual basis. Two tenths of one percent is about fifty percent away from being a majority.
Where on Earth are you getting 140 million from?
People that are registered Republicans, consistently vote Republican, or hold Republican views make up a little under half of the overall population, current population in the US is around 340M (last time I checked, it's been a minute), so 140M is a fairly conservative (ha!) guess at how many people would more-or-less be Republican, or lean Republican.
Oh, and the flip side of that is that there are a larger number of people that are registered as Democratic voters, consistently vote Democratic, or tend to lean Democratic in their views, even if they don't vote/don't vote consistently.
No Republican candidate has ever gotten anywhere close to 140 million votes. Your numbers are a wild overestimate. Half the country is not Republican nor is half the country Democrat.
From the USA, I guess
Well then he's getting them wrong I guess
It must be the chinese GOP than.
It must be because no Republican has ever come close to getting 140 million votes.
Imma let you finish, but all conservatives are pedophiles. Full stop.
Your math isn't mathing. He isn't talking rank and file Republicans. He's just talking about their leadership and policymakers. That's totally different. Mr Trump can be friends with Epstein all day long and that couldn't possibly reflect poorly on the rest of the republican party. He's only their elected nominee for president.
Get your "not all men" horseshit out of here.
You're not here to ask a good-faith question, you're here to state an opinion or theory.
Their team does it, my team would never!
Who brought up "teams"?
Oh that's right, it's you again.. trying to make people argue with you because of your (checks notes) bad faith bullshit.
Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia
Learn to read, dear
I think as individuals, most all of them are opposed to child abuse. Protecting children from "woke groomers" is one of their unifying battle cries.
Sadly, their tribalism is stronger than their concern for the kids. Once one of their own is accused of child abuse, they rally to their defense. In their mind, they are the good guys, and someone who's on the "good guy team" could never do something like that. The only reasonable explanation is that they were wrongly accused or there was a terrible misunderstanding, or sigh they deserved/ asked for it.
Of course, this rabid tribalism attracts MORE predators. As long as they can convince everyone that they are "one of them" they know that they can get away with a few more lies than if they were hanging out with independent thinkers.
Nah, I just think it's herd mentality and not wanting to stick out. Critical thinking and nuance doesn't work well for them if they want to present a united front. They've always been like this, at least since I started paying attention some 15-20 yearsago. .
Nah, I think it's the influence of religion that makes that shit more common in the GOP. They mostly seem to stick together out of fear and unbridled hatred.
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