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Ah, yeah, the drug addicts. Mostly created by the same system. Which created drug addicts from these "good people", as rich white people got loads of Oxycontin prescribed. I don't know what's in the food in the US, or what it's lacking, but making connections as simple as 1+1 is for most too difficult.
When you have shitty insurance and you're working 60hrs a week to barely make ends meet. Then, you hurt your back or fuck up a joint.
You can't stop working because you can barely afford to live. Workman's comp is a joke and you'll get fired if you try and get your job to pay for your work related injury.
However, there for a while, they were handing out oxycontin like it was candy. You can kill the pain and keep working. Until they won't give you anymore pills. Then you buy pills from a buddy or a friend of a friend. They're fake, the fentanyl in them hits different. Pain is still mostly killed. You can still keep working, keep food on the table for your kids.
But yeah, it's a rich white people thing because of something in our food.
Unless you've been in it, you don't understand the suffering built into the system. Lots of people that are suffering don't have the time, energy, or resources to do anything but tread water to keep them or their family from drowning.
Yet the majority chose for Trump, who gives the biggest tax cuts to the rich and barily any to the poor. While Kamala would have given a much bigger tax cut for the poor and middle class, much less for the rich. Plus they want all the immigrants out, you know, the people who build houses and stuff. But who cares about a housing shortage, not like that's going to increase rent or anything right? Honestly, how long will it take until all the water in the US is replaced by Gatorade? It has electrolytes.
The real majority didn't vote.
When you don't vote, you help the one you like the least. Not voting is a poor choice. You're still responsible for the outcome.
Not absolving anyone of responsibility, just pointing out that the actual majority couldn't be bothered to do anything.
That's what the German jews thought too when they didn't vote in 1933.
These people couldn't connect the dots to pass kindergarten.