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BlueGreenGrey · M
The US electorate is consistently plagued by a sizable number of people who are:
- low-information voters who proudly say they do not read the news (but do not say that they also are only getting all of their facts from social media rando quacks)
- people who would like vote against evil but are too damn lazy and apathetic to actually go vote at all (if you allow fascists into office just because you stayed home, you are complicit and a part of the problem, there is no excuse ... if you truly think there is nothing you want to vote for, at least get off your *ss and vote against fascism)
- people who truly clueless about how the economy works, who won't even acknowledge real ecnomonic indicators that call BS on their notion that the economy is tanking, and thus will consistently punish an incumbent POTUS because of their perception, regardless of party, regardless of the fact that a POTUS does not control every aspect of the free market economy that the US is so beholden to,
- the false equlivance / both-sides-are-bad cult who either fall into the apathy non-voting column or who go bonkers and vote for a self-styled populist «outsider» just to be contrarian, and somehow convince themselves that this demagogue is not actually a far-right fascist, and is somehow «just like them» when they clearly are not ... one side is clearly, consistently, demonstrably «worse» than the other, this notion that it's just one uniparty cabal minority of elites trying to magically gain control over 300 million people can and will never hold water
- people who think that cycling back and forth between the Democrats and GQP every other election cycle somehow makes them an «independent» (or «moderate») when all it actually achieves is an endless cycle of one step forward then two steps back (as one would logically expect) ... this has parallels with the people who believe that rejecting mainstream journalism somehow makes them «free-thinkers»
- a perhaps unique contingent who on one hand will consistently acknowledge that Trumpism is bad, but in the next breath will bellow «I will only be ruled by a government from 200 years ago before I will be ruled by a government of today!» which sounds just like MAGAspeak / libertarian nuttery, denies the flaws of our initial government (many of the precious founding fathers were slaveowners FFS, there is no reason at all be deifying them), denies all the changes in the world (and the magnitude of them) and increases in scientific knowledge in the last 200 years ... this reaction was stirred by simply asking if they would abide by another mask mandate for another pandemic (and this person is one of the commenters on your post)
- people who pretend that centrists are actually CoMmUnIsTs (which is just insane) ... these people could not pick real «far left radicals» out of a lineup if their lives depended on it
- primary election voters who keep advancing centrists instead of progressives to the general election, when Third Way neoliberalism is what has been causing a surge in the far-right since 1992, and thus by the general election the choice of Republican Lite vs Republican is not an actual alternative at all
- regressive people who still cannot fathom voting for a woman as POTUS (which ironically includes a non-trivial amount of immigrant voters), even though female heads of state are common outside of the US
And these are just the diseases of the electorate itself, separate from the anti-democratic mechanisms of US elections and government working in parallel with this idiocracy tendency ... mechanisms like the electoral college (originally created to benefit southern slave states) and a federal senate whcih grants two senators to every state regardless of population ... plus denying statehood to a city / district with more residents than Wyoming
- low-information voters who proudly say they do not read the news (but do not say that they also are only getting all of their facts from social media rando quacks)
- people who would like vote against evil but are too damn lazy and apathetic to actually go vote at all (if you allow fascists into office just because you stayed home, you are complicit and a part of the problem, there is no excuse ... if you truly think there is nothing you want to vote for, at least get off your *ss and vote against fascism)
- people who truly clueless about how the economy works, who won't even acknowledge real ecnomonic indicators that call BS on their notion that the economy is tanking, and thus will consistently punish an incumbent POTUS because of their perception, regardless of party, regardless of the fact that a POTUS does not control every aspect of the free market economy that the US is so beholden to,
- the false equlivance / both-sides-are-bad cult who either fall into the apathy non-voting column or who go bonkers and vote for a self-styled populist «outsider» just to be contrarian, and somehow convince themselves that this demagogue is not actually a far-right fascist, and is somehow «just like them» when they clearly are not ... one side is clearly, consistently, demonstrably «worse» than the other, this notion that it's just one uniparty cabal minority of elites trying to magically gain control over 300 million people can and will never hold water
- people who think that cycling back and forth between the Democrats and GQP every other election cycle somehow makes them an «independent» (or «moderate») when all it actually achieves is an endless cycle of one step forward then two steps back (as one would logically expect) ... this has parallels with the people who believe that rejecting mainstream journalism somehow makes them «free-thinkers»
- a perhaps unique contingent who on one hand will consistently acknowledge that Trumpism is bad, but in the next breath will bellow «I will only be ruled by a government from 200 years ago before I will be ruled by a government of today!» which sounds just like MAGAspeak / libertarian nuttery, denies the flaws of our initial government (many of the precious founding fathers were slaveowners FFS, there is no reason at all be deifying them), denies all the changes in the world (and the magnitude of them) and increases in scientific knowledge in the last 200 years ... this reaction was stirred by simply asking if they would abide by another mask mandate for another pandemic (and this person is one of the commenters on your post)
- people who pretend that centrists are actually CoMmUnIsTs (which is just insane) ... these people could not pick real «far left radicals» out of a lineup if their lives depended on it
- primary election voters who keep advancing centrists instead of progressives to the general election, when Third Way neoliberalism is what has been causing a surge in the far-right since 1992, and thus by the general election the choice of Republican Lite vs Republican is not an actual alternative at all
- regressive people who still cannot fathom voting for a woman as POTUS (which ironically includes a non-trivial amount of immigrant voters), even though female heads of state are common outside of the US
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And these are just the diseases of the electorate itself, separate from the anti-democratic mechanisms of US elections and government working in parallel with this idiocracy tendency ... mechanisms like the electoral college (originally created to benefit southern slave states) and a federal senate whcih grants two senators to every state regardless of population ... plus denying statehood to a city / district with more residents than Wyoming
BrandNewMan · M
@BlueGreenGrey Quite the list of elitist excuses that basically assume anyone with different views is a lesser human than you are. Fact is that twice om the last 9 yrs more people chose Trump over crappy liberal candidates that were not seen as a better option.
Despite the attempts to take him out, he's still in the role. Your excuses dont change that .. now do they?
Despite the attempts to take him out, he's still in the role. Your excuses dont change that .. now do they?