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Boggles my mind how in the late 80s how much the Filipino had to do to get his dad out of power only for them to vote in his son (who has the exact same name as him) out of nostalgia for the good olde days.
This type of behavior (and many other things) make me question the rationality of the electorate in democracies.
It seems like people do really irrational things all the time. This is generally due to cultural norms and the information they are most exposed to.
If you think the Democratic party in the US is in league with people who extract adrenochrome from terrified children to use as a youth elixer and you think Donald Trump will stop this, then, yes, Donald Trump is a rational choice.
The facts underlying this are completely irrational and unproven but your cultural norms make you think "I don't need proof, if I did I'd be questioning my religion, so feeling like it's true is enough" plus "if I question this narrative, I will be shunned by the people I want/need the most."
Again, believing this or at least acting as though you believe this, is rational in terms of ego protection and in group status.
For people who are scared of being excluded (which might mean physical violence, loss of jobs, loss of family, etc) anything is better than that.
You're ignoring the media, a significant pillar of control, and that it isn't "cultural norm" but the result of non-stop propaganda, perhaps slightly adapted by locale, but still just propaganda, designed by those actually in charge and pulling all the strings (those in government, and/or those bankrolling them, and of course the media that supports them because the systems they uphold benefit their rich owners) to make the population look anywhere and blame anyone apart from those actually in charge and pulling all the strings.
It isn't a mystery, it's a well documented fact that I think most people like to ignore because accepting it means admitting you've also been subject to it and have fallen for a lot of its lies.
But we all have, and the only way to stop, is by abolishing the system that needs all this toxic brainwashing to survive, not by playing along with it and looking to point the finger anywhere else (like on an "irrational" electorate).
E: not trying to be an ass, just saying open your eyes and be willing to be uncomfortable with the full extent of how manipulated our lives are, who is doing this manipulation, and why (money and power, the answer is always money and power in a system designed to funnel those in to the hands of a small handful of people so that they can control the rest)
The media is the source of misinformation. I thought that was clear, sorry. The fact is Fox News has equal or less weight to it for a lot of maga people than far more extreme news sources. I would lump in social sites since it is trivial to drive home an agenda or talking point with the cooperation of influencers hungry for views.
It is a problem between the irrational nature of a few people versus the irrational nature of the population.
Yes, you have a crazy guy like trump coinciding with a popular hunger for a mob justice approach to cultural issues and foreign policy and you've got trouble.
Hell, it’s not a democracy, but Putin made Stalin be popular again recently. They needed some figure to rally around and generate national pride, and yeah. Stalin. Great guy there today.