The koch brothers were behind the tea party, and ive never seen anything linking them to russia.
At a guess that astroturf movement was hijacked by others but im not sure we can pin much of thst on russia specifically.
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irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days agoIt’s always been obvious that Putin was behind the Tea Party which evolved into MAGA, and even more obviously, Trump. Problem is the whole system is designed to only allow wealthy land owners to hold power, thus the two party system enforced by the electoral college, and the districting systems that are easily manipulated to give power to land area, above population. The whole system at the federal level is broken on purpose. All we can do is try to get more people to vote so population has more power over land area, but the conservative controlled states cut funding for voting and people have to work do can’t wait in line for many, many hours in large cities on election days. Only progressive states have mail-in voting and early voting and even there we’re stick voting for “lesser evil” candidates due to the two party system both controlled by the wealthy. There’s the far right fascist Republican party and the moderate right Corporate friendly Democratic party. No party gir the people.
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StitchInTime@piefed.social 1 day ago
I whole heartedly agree with your points, however I think it’s important to note that Trump did win the popular vote this time around, which if nothing else showcases how far the US has fallen.
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
A lot of that was sexism and racism forcing less fascist loving conservatives over to Trump combined with a general sense of betrayal. The Democrats made a huge mistake forcing Biden down everyone’s throat by forcing other candidates not to run (which they do most years bit it was really obvious this time with the disapproval of how far right the party moved to even select Biden) and an even bigger mistake switching to Harris against the will of the (admittedly sham) vote.
StitchInTime@piefed.social 1 day ago
Unfortunately the fact remains that he received 3 million more votes in 2024 than 2020. It’s simple to political missteps and cry foul, but I simply can’t overlook the fact that majority of Americans knew who he was, witnessed the same January 6th I did, and elected to restore that guy to office. In something that shouldn’t have been remotely close, he won. That speaks more to the mentality of average Americans than it does what the democrats did or didn’t do this cycle.
Democrats aren’t faultless here, they continuously bury their best candidates for political nepotism (and I personally feel Biden would have been a solid president in 2016), lack courage when defending their positions, and are generally too worried to rock the boat that benefits their donors. I personally want funding limits in elections and ranked choice voting in all things and to curb this nonsense, yet the fact Donald Trump secured that many votes, the fact I have neighbors who fly his flag as a symbol of strength, gives me little hope for the future of this country.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 day ago
He’s just so passionate! Him and his followers were just upset he lost because he was doing so good, and he gave up eventually. Don’t you want a passionate president rather than a sleepy one? Plus he will be hard on all the immigrants who must be responsible for me struggling to find a job and he will negotiate prices down, haven’t you heard? He’s a good negotiator he has a whole book and everything. Has to be better than Biden and his random girl telling me that everything is fine and they won’t do anything to help me.
I get being in disbelief, and being upset but people don’t know what they don’t know and it isn’t that shocking to see how they came to the conclusions that it HAD to be better.
Humans, while very clever, are emotionally dumb as fuck.