Comment on How do Americans win their country back?

• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Mora@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They don’t blame young people. They blame lack of education.

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      • Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You sure about that?

        You have an entire generation coming of voting age who are rabid Trump supporters.

        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.

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• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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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  • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can we please not start arguing in favor of eugenics?

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    • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Fuck you.

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I used to think Ukrainian politicians were fucking clowns. I guess we got outclowned.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• natebluehooves@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hate.

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well they’re making plenty more of that to go around

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• silly_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Americans voted in Reagan twice. They also elected Bush twice. This is not surprising.

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• recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s the low turn out. Too many of us are nonparticipants

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Non mandatory voting wouldnt help, being that its more susceptible to eroding a merit process from campaigns of fear or otherwise.

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