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I was gonna title this "And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice" and then write "Stuck inside of America with the fascism blues again" here, but I'm not sure if that comes off like gloating and that's honestly the last thing I want to do this morning.
So I guess people actually think Trump and Musk are going to help them with their egg prices?
Yes, you might find it stupid or illogical, but they (trump , elmo) are seen as smart and successful, and they lived under better circumstances in the last Trump term.
That's democracy, everyone has a say, whether their opinions or feelings are right or wrong. but instead of the democrats putting the work to meet these people they have chosen to belittle them. and that has cost them so far the Presidency and the Senate.
"they lived under better circumstances in the last Trump term"
They lived under fucking Covid in the last Trump term, when everyone was confined to their homes while supply lines disintegrated and the cost of food more than doubled, while ashes from rampant forest fires rained down from a blood red sky.
That was only the end of it though. Through most of it, many aspects of the economy were better, for most people. He was just as complicit in why inflation, housing costs, etc. got so bad. However, do you think most people understand how the free money given, mostly under Biden, as a stimulus to the populace, had little effect on the inflation vs financial institutions drowning in oceans of free money, for 20 years? Do you think most people are even aware that was going on? Do you think most of them understand how private equity, and changes in its regulation, caused the housing cost crisis, and not supply being overwhelmed by the demand of immigrants?
I talked to someone I used to do underwriting, for things like mortgages, a few months back. He bought the immigrants buying up all the housing line. He just refused to believe private equity, something he definitely understands, is responsible, regardless of the fact that even those private equity institutions' data say they are at fault. It is much easier to say "housing unaffordable, close border" than to have to address the massive systemic changes that need to be made.
I was disinfecting my groceries, and Trump was confiscating my PPE to send it somewhere else. I was getting Covid checks, which was nice, but it wasn't exactly the same as working. I couldn't leave the house for a while. I couldn't buy certain mechanical things without going on a 3-month wait list. I knew some people who died.
They think they lived under better circumstances in the last Trump term, because the media and people like you spreading a certain type of mental landscape and inviting them to inhabit it. But that's not actually what happened.
If belittling the people could cost you support in America, Trump would be in prison right now.
Now if you ask whether the media told people that Democrats were belittling them, now that's a different story. That, to me, seems a lot more worth examining than it does to lecture the Democrats how important it is not to do some things they didn't do, that the media said they did.
Lol! Most people get their information from social media. Most people interact with others on social media.
Most Republicans have been called "racist, bigot, misogynist, shitty, worthless, non-human, "Nazis" who deserve to be cast out if not "removed permanently" from society!!!" on social media.
For no other reason than they had a differing opinion than the hive-mind did.
The media didn't have to tell me that liberals were belittling me.
Biden also called Trump supporters "garbage". Clinton called us "deplorable". And I have a funny suspicion that you don't disagree. We have been dehumanized. I have to try my hardest to make it clear that I am, in fact, NOT a fucking Nazi before I post something that I know will be considered "Nazi speak", just because it isn't blind alegence to the Democratic candidate.
So......yeah......you can't act like this is something the media implanted into our minds.
Oh of course they think Trump and Musk are very smart. That doesn’t surprise me.
I’m surprised that they think Trump and Musk give a fuck about egg prices.
People think that Trump is going to change things, which is very hard to argue against. Yes, it won't be change for the better, but Harris was offering them 4 more years of the status quo that is currently hurting them.
No one can argue Trump didn't get things done. He got a lot done, especially when you compare that to the perception people have of the Biden administration.
But I brought this up earlier: Trump may hate his followers, absolutely loathe them, but he still panders to them, even if it's fake promises. He accomplishes things they want done, and shows he can make progress, something the Democrats botch literally anytime they get any semblance of power. Trump makes his constituents feel heard.
The Democrats, just, don't. Everyone on Lemmy I'm sure has seen people offering criticism of Biden/Harris, and the response has been to immediately insult, scold, condescend, and shame the individual for not towing the party line. Your concerns, anxieties, hangups, none of that matters because fascism bad so stfu and vote and also fuck you anyway.
Trump's supporters ask him to abolish vaccines, and he seriously considers it.
Harris' supporters ask her to not support a genocide in Palestine, and she sends Bill Clinton to lecture them about why Israel has the right to do what they're doing.
It's a two-way street, the politicians just can't keep demanding our votes and ignoring our issues. And if that's what they're going to do, then congratulations, you've turned your voting base apathetic, and you deserve to lose to fascism.
I'm not even American and I constantly see Lemmy users dunk on me for saying Biden/Harris are corpo dems who don't have policies most people wanted. That DNC and democrat politicians will be to blame if Drumpf wins.Not voters. Not independents. The Party and the Party Leaders.
I saw someone else on here put it perfectly, Democrats feel entitled to votes. They think that because they are logically the lesser evil, not voting for them is wrong. They don't even consider that American elections are not about logic, and are nearly entirely about emotions. They don't feel the need to make their constituents feel heard because they think their constituents are idiots if they don't vote for them. They don't even stop to realize that they are still an evil.
Seeing some of that entitlement in these threads has been, frankly, infuriating. Blue MAGA is the right term, they act identically to Trump supporters. It's everyone's fault but Harris'.
It really does feel like that. "Vote for lesser evil" but do nothing to be less evil.
Blue MAGA was a joke that became reality. There's several people more angry at "I was entitled to more votes!" than Trump winning the votes and ending everything else.
I've been saying the entitlement thing since the midterms! You're not entitled to someone's vote just because the other option is fascism.
And this entitlement has turned a large part of eligible voters apathetic. What difference does it make if you vote if you're always just voting for the lesser evil? If you're never actually represented in the people you're forced to choose between?
If you're going to be fucked either way, what difference does it make if the party in power is fascist or not?
And yep, plenty of people today telling me I'm the problem, despite the fact I voted for Harris. I just am also not naive enough to think the average American should be impressed by the lackluster campaign she just ran, and the Democrats botched on the whole.
I never voted for Trump each time I was able to vote. Not once did it ever cross my mind.
And somehow we're the evil people for wanting meaningful promises that improve the lives that fascism tempts. Never once voted for a Trump and since 2020, never voted for a Republican locally, I always skip the blanket primary when I can, since "I can promise you're not totally crazy" isn't a thing anymore.
When I ask "Why are we supporting these bad polices that Bush started?" I'm accused of being a useful idiot. When I ask "Why did we stop COVID protections and doing tests? Isn't that what Trump wanted?" I'm called a Russian bot. At some point I just learned:
I give up. Democrats don't want answers and polices, they just wanna be "Not the current evil guy."