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I still can't quite believe people voted for 4 more years of headlines like this
judging from the behaiivor of people on social media, everything from little kids to grown adults of both parent and grandparent age. people are fucking stupid and im not at all surprised, education failed, brain rot won. this is not surprising
Surprise is qualitative. I was ready for this (left the country 3 years ago, still voted from abroad) but I was fully ready to have been wrong all this time. I'm not used to being this prescient, and it doesn't bode well for the rest of what I think I need to be ready for.
I try to take heart in the fact that the majority didn't actually vote for him, but it's cold comfort, considering so many couldn't be bothered to vote at all.
We're kinda fucked.
The majority of people who actually voted did. Who knows what the rest really think, but at the very least they were fine with this.
We're mega fucked.
Well ackshually! It was a plurality not majority. Not that it actually makes a difference...
Still got less than 50%.
He did get the highest percent, but under half of voters. Still fucking depressing, but as numbers were fully counted and confirmed his percentage steadily decreased.
Still fucked though, yes.
maga fucked Fixed it for you
If it helps (it won’t), voter suppression has been working overtime since like 2012. My ballot didn’t come until the 8th of November, and I couldn’t spring for a surprise voting day flight home. For more local citizens, things like making them wait six hours and banning people from providing water are effective, not because people don’t care, but because people are concerned with immediate survival, so they might have to leave the line to go to work.
He wants to bring the stock market down, at least until he is in office. It's what he likes to use as a scoreboard. Since his move to easy federal deficit fell through, he needs to find othe means to be able to pump the market further into a bubble. Watch him change his tune as soon as he is in office. He will probably say, oh well Greenland and Panama decided to take a deal, so "Mission Successful!.... while he quietly releases J6ers and takes even more control of our politics behind the curtain.
Take heart; you are slightly less fucked than Hezbollah
I'm sure people now see that it's all Hezbollah behind the failed coup and Trump is the only one that can fight them! /s
The people who voted for this don't read the news because they have their heads up their asses, blissfully unaware what goes on in the world. And will blame the dems for anything bad in their life.
His key to winning this time relied heavily on people who don’t pay attention and who don’t usually vote.
I feel like your username doesn't check out
It's aspirational
Because not everyone thinks the same.
Unfortunately both parties have pivoted to chasing voters who are just afraid of "them" and that's what they both built campaigns around.
Fear of "them" will always translate to more conservative votes than liberal, so Republicans will win those elections the majority of the time.
Like, maybe you were just complaining it happened, but if you legitimately didn't know why, that's probably the largest contributer.
Dems gave up on "bleeding heart liberals" because they have standards as voters.
These strategies have existed and have been deployed in the past. "Them" have always existed and have been exploited to more/less success.
So what's changed this cycle?
Nothing.
Human variation has always existed.
Conservatives have larger amygdalas so they respond more to that strategy. Liberals have larger prefrontal cortex's where things like empathy and critical thinking happen, that's why they're "bleeding heart liberals".
It's not a small difference. A random person off the street with zero medical training can tell your political leaning from just an MRI scan once someone points out the two relevant parts with like 82% accuracy, which considering some people will be "between" is crazy accurate.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/848363
Now, the difference isn't innate, and it can change even later in life.
But as people's brains change so the amygdala gets to call more shots, that person is going to want conservative politicians, so Dems move to the right to chase the voters they scared into becoming more conservative...
Which just further disenfraches the people with a larger left insula (prefrontal cortex) and makes both parties appear the same to them even if one is the "lesser evil".
It's not really new, we've known about this since before trump won his first election.
It's just the people running the DNC do t care about sociology or even psychology...
Just money
The dems started relying completely on that strategy. They threw away the hope and change stuff that won them the presidency in 2008. Like the person you're replying to said, they gave up on the "bleeding heart liberals".
They didn't. This isn't a democracy. People didn't have a choice to vote for.
Very few people voted for trump.