• @HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    42 months ago

    Respectfully, Trump didn’t just appear this year. There are endless CONCRETE examples of his garbage character and policy ideas. Plenty of people in precarious situations are not so stupid as to somehow believe that Trump is only a danger recently because of project 2025. You would literally have to have just regained consciousness from a 10 year coma to not have been exposed to his shittiness at this point. Anyone who supports him or is undecided about him is wholly ignorant of reality.

    • @SneakyLemming@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      I recently saw someone in the comment section on another social media site (video of Jan 6th) legitimately have their mind blown that January 6th was not peaceful. They had multiple comments of them coming to the realization that it was anything other than peaceful. I think we often underestimate how uninformed (or willfully ignorant) the general public is.

      • @zante@lemmy.wtf
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        42 months ago

        It’s very difficult to view things from another perspective, although it’s phrase we throw around a lot .

        I never imagined fast food delivery would take off, because restaurants have drive throughs. My bias is that of a car owner and I was wildly wrong.

        As you point out, there is a ton of hard evidence about people’s limited political understanding.

    • @zante@lemmy.wtf
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      32 months ago

      And yet he was elected to highest office in the land and went very close again 4 years later and will likely go close again.

      So there are plenty of “stupid” people who are “ignorant of reality” and they have vote same as you.

      • Cowbee [he/him]
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        92 months ago

        Why do you think Trump became influential? Why did this happen, and how do we not repeat it?

        • @zante@lemmy.wtf
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          22 months ago

          Too many people left behind in hardship in a time of abundance and conspicuous wealth. Easy for Trump to gains support with populist sentiment. Republicans saw their chance, and held their nose a made him leader.

          • Cowbee [he/him]
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            52 months ago

            The answer is capitalist decay. Fascism isn’t going away even if Trump goes away.