Which is entirely reasonable when consensus reality has collapsed and the skills necessary to fact check dubious claims are completely absent from any American curriculum.

[–] bestmiaou@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and the time necessary to dig into a bunch of dubious claims by a politician who is likely lying to you is beyond what's reasonable for a person working a full-time job with a family or anything vaguely resembling a social life

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Then the institutions that are supposed to do the fact checking for you, to solve this problem, are blatantly lying and will tell you that inflation hasn't been that bad when it's essentially impossible for the majority of non-homeowners to ever own a home. So there's no one to trust, and these people perceive the liberals as smarmy condescending douches, so it's not a difficult logical leap to see why they end up voting Trump.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

Which is why I wish we had a Trump of the left. Someone who isn't a smarmy douche and comes off like this emoji smuglord