Most republican voters I know, boomer or otherwise, simply view voting differently than most their lefter-leaning constituents. I often hear them say that the point of voting is to simply choose what benefits you the most, and that if everyone simply chooses things that specifically align with their own wants and needs, that the biggest, most important groups will get what is needed. It’s not even that they understand that they’re being selfish by only voting in their own best interests, they just honestly believe that considering the needs of others when voting undermines its effectiveness.
Now, it’s obvious that they’re wrong - smaller groups deserve just as much of a say as their larger counterparts, and the country benefits when they do - but they don’t think about it that way. I believe it’s also why republicans are so concerned about becoming a minority - they honestly believe that voting should specifically only benefit the largest group, and are desperately trying to maintain “their people” as the largest group.
But it’s not the voting power they’re afraid of losing though.
“We” (read, anyone even one iota to the left of what passes for American Centrism/Liberalism) doesn’t even stop to consider what “we” would do with a voting majority over the status quo voter example (Christian, White, Male) because that’s just not how “our” brains on average are structured.
“They” would get exactly what they deserve; adequate everything and a shot at the pursuit of liberty as equitable as can be honestly delivered.
That’s not what “they” vote for in the pursuit of maintaining their stranglehold over that teensy bit of extra power; they fear what they would vote for because their interests would see them vote the existence of the “other” away.
Yeah, exactly. Many republican voters think that everyone should vote for their own goals, and that the biggest group should win, so they’re terrified of not being the biggest group in any given demographic (religion, race, etc.). What they fail to realize is that most people vote for how they’d like the country itself to be run, which includes smaller groups just as much as larger ones, so losing that majority footing wouldn’t impact them very much if at all.
This line of thinking also develops situations that are worse for the collective. Since everyone is just chasing their own interests. They’re actively making things worse by behaving like that.
There’s a bit more to this, in that they seem to view this whole thing as a zero-sum game, so if they’re no longer the majority group, not only do their interests not get the situation, but other groups will actively work to disadvantage them. They just can’t imagine that everyone else doesn’t think that advancing your own views and bettering your conditions means you need to tear down and destroy someone else to do so.
Most republican voters I know, boomer or otherwise, simply view voting differently than most their lefter-leaning constituents. I often hear them say that the point of voting is to simply choose what benefits you the most, and that if everyone simply chooses things that specifically align with their own wants and needs, that the biggest, most important groups will get what is needed. It’s not even that they understand that they’re being selfish by only voting in their own best interests, they just honestly believe that considering the needs of others when voting undermines its effectiveness.
Now, it’s obvious that they’re wrong - smaller groups deserve just as much of a say as their larger counterparts, and the country benefits when they do - but they don’t think about it that way. I believe it’s also why republicans are so concerned about becoming a minority - they honestly believe that voting should specifically only benefit the largest group, and are desperately trying to maintain “their people” as the largest group.
I mean, you’re 99% correct imo.
But it’s not the voting power they’re afraid of losing though.
“We” (read, anyone even one iota to the left of what passes for American Centrism/Liberalism) doesn’t even stop to consider what “we” would do with a voting majority over the status quo voter example (Christian, White, Male) because that’s just not how “our” brains on average are structured.
“They” would get exactly what they deserve; adequate everything and a shot at the pursuit of liberty as equitable as can be honestly delivered.
That’s not what “they” vote for in the pursuit of maintaining their stranglehold over that teensy bit of extra power; they fear what they would vote for because their interests would see them vote the existence of the “other” away.
Yeah, exactly. Many republican voters think that everyone should vote for their own goals, and that the biggest group should win, so they’re terrified of not being the biggest group in any given demographic (religion, race, etc.). What they fail to realize is that most people vote for how they’d like the country itself to be run, which includes smaller groups just as much as larger ones, so losing that majority footing wouldn’t impact them very much if at all.
Also why this group is so angered by programs such as DEI. Equality for others come across as oppression to them.
This line of thinking also develops situations that are worse for the collective. Since everyone is just chasing their own interests. They’re actively making things worse by behaving like that.
There’s a bit more to this, in that they seem to view this whole thing as a zero-sum game, so if they’re no longer the majority group, not only do their interests not get the situation, but other groups will actively work to disadvantage them. They just can’t imagine that everyone else doesn’t think that advancing your own views and bettering your conditions means you need to tear down and destroy someone else to do so.