For all practical purposes, about 30% of people are unfeeling morons - basically psychopathic. That’s the number that consistently opposes abortion, for instance. Add to that all the dumbasses who don’t know any better (the undecideds on any extremely obvious moral issue), et voila. That’s how you get slavery, nationalism, genocide, theocracy, you name it.
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Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month agoHow in the fuck.
Like what drives a majority of Americans to vote for a demented toddler. It’s insane.
As a kid I always wondered how on Earth did Hitler ever make anyone follow himself, how did those people not realise. Turns out a majority of people are just fucking morons.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 1 month ago
tamal3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can we please not start arguing in favor of eugenics?
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Fuck you.
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I used to think Ukrainian politicians were fucking clowns. I guess we got outclowned.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The rise of the NSDAP has been studied quite a bit. Also, the psychological aspects are really interesting. Basically normal people can make all of this possible as long as the conditions are just right.
natebluehooves@pawb.social 1 month ago
Hate.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Well they’re making plenty more of that to go around
silly_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Americans voted in Reagan twice. They also elected Bush twice. This is not surprising.
recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
There are many leftists and minorities that have “voted strategically” time and time and time again only for things to get worse and worse.
This kind of disenfranchisement leads to apathy and low turnout.
We are told from a young age that our vote matters, and then when we are older we are told you can only vote for red fascist or blue fascist and many choose not to participate.
There are more who did not vote than who voted for Trump. This is not what the majority wants, but with the system as it is, it is not possible for the majority to voice what they actually genuinely want and have a chance to get it.
The votes do not have to be rigged at the ballot box for voting as a whole system to be rigged.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s the low turn out. Too many of us are nonparticipants
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 month ago
American politics isnt about choosing the best candidate its about choosing the one u hate least. The dems spent too much time playing identity politics that they forgot to play actuall politics.
Wooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Non mandatory voting wouldnt help, being that its more susceptible to eroding a merit process from campaigns of fear or otherwise.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep and the slow gutting of the education system isn’t making it any better.
You have an entire generation coming of voting age who are rabid Trump supporters. They don’t care about policies or democracy or public institutions. They don’t care about healthcare, social securities, or the stability of the economy.
They don’t care about any of the things that have been built up through generations. They lack critical thinking ability.
The recipe works. If you make dumb kids they will vote for dumb people. It works so well that part of the future plan for a trump presidency is to get rid of the department of education. Solidifying the Republican party indefinitely.
HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Americans aren’t special. They’re just as vulnerable to fascism as anybody else.
The MAGATs might as well be wearing brownshirts and saluting like Mussolini.
Wooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Blaming young people is up their with blaming immigrants and “gays” ect for [insert topic]. I would be very surprised if this was the case.
I think it’s a little more nuanced.
Mora@pawb.social 1 month ago
They don’t blame young people. They blame lack of education.
Wooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You sure about that?
It goes on.
Anecodtally (at this point, this is all these discussions are), I think that Apathy, fear campaigns or outright money and campaigns ect become powerful levers where voting is non-mandatory.