Most people also treat everything as not real and inconsequential, other than what benefits them.
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electric_nan@lemmy.ml 13 hours agoYou’re describing what motivates Trump’s base. They are in a cult, but they don’t win elections on their own. Believe it or not (and I don’t like it either), most people just care about their own lives.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Trump’s base are low-information, low-education voters. The rest of Americans should have actually seen Trump is a monster and should not be entrusted with power.
To be fair, most Democrats polled identify as moderate or centrist Democrats but then they agree with the main DSA positions that moderate Democratic officials stand against.
To paraphrase something that Jamelle Bouie recently said, The American people voted in a madman. And they’re going to have to collectively ask themselves some difficult questions about their intent, and even their capacity to self-govern.
I have every reason to be pessimistic.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They did. 1/3 of eligible voters chose hate and rascim. 1/3 said said anyone but Trump. And almost all of the remaining 1/3 saw the same racist pedophile who straight up told us what he was going to do. They looked at the malevolent evil he represented, weighed out the pros and cons of him being reelected and rather than vote against him, they decided that him winning was acceptable.
If that 1/3 of the country had voted for anyone else, then you might be able to say that they just couldn’t agree on who to vote for, and didn’t like her politics or the Biden administration or whatever. But that’s not what they did. They decided that what he represented was acceptable.
You don’t just find that level of hate ”acceptable" without having enough of your own hate to make it not seem that bad.