Jesus Christ. It’s like arguing with my ex gf. I’m not defending anything you turnip. I’m giving a plausible explanation of why people vote Conservative - or at least more plausible than the suggestion that most people are uncaring sociopaths.
I actually went out of my way to explain this by repeating it twice, and it still didn’t sink in with some of you. I shouldn’t be surprised by now I suppose, but it still manages to astound me.
I think it’s because the argument you’re making is pointless. You’ve got it into your head that we here lefties need it patiently explained to us that people vote Tory because they are ill-informed and not very politically engaged, rather than outright cunts.
But at no point have we ever not known this. Yet you think you’re dropping truth bombs and blowing our minds.
Maybe you don’t read these threads very well, I don’t know. Or maybe you just need to turn people into cartoonish caricatures of lefties because bizarrely over-simplified and broken arguments are what drive you forward.
But if you wonder why people respond to you a certain way all the time it’s because your swaggering condescension is completely unwarranted.