Describe a vegan who votes Republican

[Samof94]

How would you describe someone who is Vegan but votes Republican?

[Benjamin Frank 2.0]

A right winger who believes that veganism is best for their health (I've known a couple of them.)

Contrary to popular perception (according to Daniel Kahnamen), anything that I add to this makes it less likely but providing a narrative explanation makes people more likely to believe it.

However, there are a surprising number of right wing conspiratorial types (believe in Chem trails, probably anti Vax these days) who are into organic food because they don't like GMOs (or what Chem trails might be doing to food) and are, therefore, likely vegan.

Any notion that all vegans are left wing granola crunching 'new agers' is based on nothing more than mindless stereotyped thinking.

[President Johnson]

White married woman of the upper middle class who concerned over personal health. Otherwise is opposed to immigration and backs tough on crime policies.

[Schiff for Senate]

A right winger who believes that veganism is best for their health (I've known a couple of them.)

Contrary to popular perception (according to Daniel Kahnamen), anything that I add to this makes it less likely but providing a narrative explanation makes people more likely to believe it.

However, there are a surprising number of right wing conspiratorial types (believe in Chem trails, probably anti Vax these days) who are into organic food because they don't like GMOs (or what Chem trails might be doing to food) and are, therefore, likely vegan.

Any notion that all vegans are left wing granola crunching 'new agers' is based on nothing more than mindless stereotyped thinking.

Yeah, an Indian-American former coworker of my father's (lives in OC) was exactly like this. He was a Republican and his family was anti-vax but also vegetarian/vegan and into meditation and weird alternative medicine (e.g. they said braces weren't needed if you breathed in a special way).

[Benjamin Frank 2.0]

A right winger who believes that veganism is best for their health (I've known a couple of them.)

Contrary to popular perception (according to Daniel Kahnamen), anything that I add to this makes it less likely but providing a narrative explanation makes people more likely to believe it.

However, there are a surprising number of right wing conspiratorial types (believe in Chem trails, probably anti Vax these days) who are into organic food because they don't like GMOs (or what Chem trails might be doing to food) and are, therefore, likely vegan.

Any notion that all vegans are left wing granola crunching 'new agers' is based on nothing more than mindless stereotyped thinking.

Yeah, an Indian-American former coworker of my father's (lives in OC) was exactly like this. He was a Republican and his family was anti-vax but also vegetarian/vegan and into meditation and weird alternative medicine (e.g. they said braces weren't needed if you breathed in a special way).

I don't know if this was true with this person, and maybe I'm basing this on a memory bias/stereotype, but one thing that seems to be the case that fits with Republicans these days is that Republican vegans take it to extremes. They aren't just vegans but they have the whole 'raw food' diet.

[wnwnwn]

"Please listen to my christian vegan podcasts"
"D#&m those (stereotypical food...) lovers..."
"My body is a temple, I earn my money, I earn my health".
"This is my farm, far away of those cities. Say hi to my pet pig".
"Seek the truth, leave sand nonsense, join vegan paganism".

[Flyersfan232]

vivek

[Kamala's side hoe]

vivek

If Ramaswamy actually went vegan that would destroy a lot of his "not whitewashed" street cred relative to other Indian-American GOPers like Haley and Jindal.

For all of his faults (and there are a lot of them), he doesn’t come across as a sellout in the way a lot of other Republican Indian politicians have been – he still goes by Vivek, he never converted (and is a vegetarian too!), he married another Indian, and has had a v Indian-American life path.

[quesaisje]

How would you describe someone who is Vegan but votes Republican?

Are you just posting these threads to random boards at this point?

[EastwoodS]

My mom. She loves Ryan Garcia types and believes that celebs drink the blood of children. Oh and the election was stolen. She’s also pro-Palestine, pro gay, anti-trans. Every time a natural disaster happens, she also thinks “something big is gonna happen” in a biblical sense. She loves whistle blower conspiracies.
She was actually a pretty staunch Democrat until 2017/2018
She follows a vegan diet for her own personal health not for some activist reasoning..

[Bismarck]

Off the grid types are sometimes like this.

[Person Man]

Someone who is really religious?

[Clarence Boddicker]

Seventh Day Adventist

[EastwoodS]

Off the grid types are sometimes like this.

They end up being the most pro-Trump mfs you will ever meet too 😭

[NerdyBohemian]

This is way more common than you’d think.

[Kamala's side hoe]

Seventh Day Adventist

Seventh Day Adventists were a D-leaning group in 2014- presumably because they're more Black and less White than the US as a whole (but similarly Latino and slightly more Asian)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/11/03/a-closer-look-at-seventh-day-adventists-in-america/


FWIW Adventists are by no means strictly vegan, the church only encourages vegetarianism. The only religious community I can think of that actually promoted a vegan diet would be (non-Japanese) Mahayana Buddhist clergy, and even that might not be a given in modern times.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

There's a sort of horseshoe theory with stuff like this, one example being Alex Jones' Infowars web store, he isn't vegan and no doubt most of his followers aren't either because his "survival food packs" include a lot of meats and dairy, but he does sell a lot of "organic" hygiene products and the like.

There's also a sort of evangelical Christian/grifter-ish "healthy lifestyle" advocate intersection, and you also find veganism or semi-veganism and things like juice fasts promoted by the sort of cranks who talk about "not trusting modern medicine" and often end up anti-vax, before Covid these type of cranks were usually assumed to be mostly on the left with a strong right contingent but now it seems that has inverted.

[mjba257]

Vivek Ramaswamy. Tulsi Gabbard. Possibly Ben Shapiro?

[Kamala's side hoe]

Didn’t think Gabbard was vegan, but Ramaswamy and Shapiro definitely aren’t lol