I have a MAGA friend.

[no_hypocrisy]

He thought Covid was a hoax, yet believed Ivermectin to be a valid cure for it.

Now he believes Hantavirus is fake.

I like him, but he makes RFK, Jr. look intellectual.

What’s next? Polio was a manifestation?

[OLDMDDEM]

1. I have family like that.

[JI7]

2. There are some people that have a need to go against the "establishment" or whatever you want to call it

and think it makes them something special.

[GiqueCee]

10. I believe the clinical description is...

... Oppositional Defiant Disorder. These people disagree for the sake of being disagreeable. It's really tiresome.

[Aristus]

3. Mrs. Aristus was a conservative Republican evangelical when I married her.

I don't think it's so much that I was a good influence on her, as that she was always too intelligent, compassionate, and good-hearted to belong to that group of whack-jobs. But today, she is a staunch liberal Democrat, and an atheist.

[Shellback Squid]

4. get better friends

[no_hypocrisy]

5. It's a longtime friend, nostalgic.

Known each other since 1962/first grade. We go out once a month. We get along great and don’t talk politics.

[Shellback Squid]

6. I understand, I have a few guys I served with like that..no politics are discussed

[vankuria]

7. Have an acquaintance

Who refused the Covid vaccine and was infected with it 3 times. She now has what’s considered “long covid” and as a result has pulmonary fibrosis and a damaged heart valve she needs replaced. She still insists she did the right thing.

[Bluetus]

8. It is a Republican thing. They don't understand anything unless

they personally experience it.

[GiqueCee]

11. Such people...

... cannot deal with abstractions. Concepts are not real to them unless, as you say, reality slaps 'em upside the head. And sometimes they'll deny reality no matter how much proof you provide. It is a mental disorder. They'll deny that, too. I refuse to waste any time on them. They contribute nothing value to the gene pool.

[BootinUp]

9. Those positions are a choice not some understanding.

Once you accept they are going to choose whatever they are told to then it makes sense.