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it's not that complex, i just think that everyone who voted for trump is stupid. Or at the very least, incredibly ignorant. And the facts back me up on this one.
literally how, they live in delusion, They do not live in reality. They think "illegal immigrants" aren't here of legal status. Which is factually untrue. They think democrat cities are a hellhole, and they think they have more gun violence than red states, which is also untrue. In fact large urban cities tend to have the lowest per capita gun violence rates. They think kamala harris is a literal communistic fascist trying to overthrow the government and steal power from biden.
They also think that jan 6th was a guided tour of the capitol, and when presented with information will tell you it was either "FBI agents" or "antifa"
They can't even tell you what caused the inflation in 2020-2024.
These people are akin to dementia patients. How are we supposed to understand them?
according to what, and on what timescales? Unemployment is still relatively low, and crime rates have been trending down since post pandemic. It seems like things might be moderately worse, mostly because of inflation, but that's about it.
it's literally been one election cycle. If this is our standard of proof, this has already happened before, a few times probably.
and who is responsible for this? Republicans, the people we just elected. We had two border bills under biden, title 42 for the rest of the term, and a late executive order to actually do something after the congress failed twice.
technically it's the asylum immigration causing this strain, since they aren't full citizens yet, or kicked out for not passing asylum court, but of course, nobody wants to pay a few million dollars in the fed to fix this problem outright. Although there are problems with things like NIMBYism and people not voting for things like funding education, which has been a republican talking point for ages so there's that.
i'm not, and never will be, even if i had the money it wouldn't be a problem for me. I hate being around people. So this will never be a particular strong suit or problem point for me.
we also have to ascribe some blame to people who simply do not want to move out of the working class as well. Not to double back and be classist here, but coal mining? Seriously? That industry is dead! Get over it and get another job already! Oh what's that, your entire county is out of work? Sounds like a governmental failure. They should've done better.
This is a really big problem with republican populism right now.
and unfortunately, they don't do themselves many favors half the time either. It is the rural voter block that backs trump mostly at the end of the day. They also don't do themselves much of a favor calling dems pedos and child rapists, or communist authoritarians either. I'm certain not all of them do it, and i'm open to the ones who don't. Though if they aren't open to my existence, i'm not going to psyop myself out of existence here unfortunately. My bare minimum here is living in reality, and not being delusional. If you can meet that bar, we will get along well, if not, oh well, gotta crack some eggs to make an omelet i suppose.
not saying i disagree, but please do some polling about how many rural people would like to move to urban areas for job opportunities.
right wing populism.
you mean during the great depression? The single worst economic collapse, ever.
you cannot extend empathy to that which does not request it.
like ultimately, i'm sympathetic to this, but the US doesn't need this right now, it needs a reality check.