I hope it is just a minority. I remember when I once asked on Reddit why so many Americans like Donald Trump considering all the things he has done and said and they were saying it’s just a very small minority and that they personally don’t know any one who likes him. Turns out the majority of people voted for him making him president again.
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MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The short answer is that we haven’t really become any more hateful or cruel, however a VERY vocal minority of Americans have lost they’re goddamned minds and want to drag the rest of us down with them. Those are the people you’re hearing from and they make the rest of us look awful
open_mind@lemm.ee 1 week ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
[Here’s your answer on Trump.](How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind)cracked.com/…/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-t…
Still as true in 2025 as it was in 2016.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
This might explain why rural voters support Trump but what about all the city dwellers who do? They aren’t mentioned at all.
And comparing Trump to House or Iron Man shows how truly ignorant they are that they pick the stupidest rich man.
Iron man and House are genius who break rules because they are forging new ones. While Trump is a conman, this says a lot about what they aspire to be and deplorable is a fitting term for it.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 5 days ago
This was a good read, thank you
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 week ago
the majority of people voted for him
Eh… That’s not quite accurate. Current estimates are that 77,301,997 people voted for Trump, which is less than 50% of the 155,211,283 total votes cast. (But Kamala, the second-most-voted-for candidate got less than that at 75,017,626.)
But only about 64% of those eligible to vote voted.
So, not even half of those who did vote in the 2024 presidential election voted for Trump. But the ones who voted for Trump composed many more than the number of people who voted for any other candidate.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 week ago
But isn't that kind of putting lipstick on a pig? I mean got elected to become president. And 77 million is a lot of people... And I'm not sure if that's going to change policies and society. It's kind of accepted now to be a biggot and do harmful things. And I'm really not sure if it's acceptable under these circumstances to be a "silent majority" anyways. I mean it's not exactly like watching the nazis take over a country. But I think there are parallels. And I don't think it's ethically alright to just watch. At somepoint if you don't do anything, you become part of the problem. IMO.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying here. Yes, even the pro-Trump folks don’t comprise a majority of Americans, it’s exceedingly concerning that they’re as close to 50% of the U.S. population as they are. I don’t think I said otherwise, though. I also didn’t say anything about whether the anti-Trump majority (if indeed it is a majority) is/isn’t/was/wasn’t/should be/shouldn’t be “silent.”
Were the anti-Trump folks really “silent” before the election? Was there something they weren’t saying that they should have? 'Cuz it’s not like there wasn’t anybody campaigning against him.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Let’s remember the large amount of people who couldn’t be bothered to vote.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And that minority gets an outsized place at the media table due to billionaire oligarchs who want total control.