Earnest answers on the definition of a Tankie (as per the thread topic), bringing up their viewpoints or talking about the authoritarianism they promote were removed and users banned.
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Neither of us can know for sure. And I'm just drawing from my background living in the Midwest, Misery/Kansas area. And believe me. I'm not trying to paint Trump or Republican voters in a good light.They're dumb as fuck, and twice as spiteful. But they're struggling to support him right now.
Deploying the Gestapo at night to invade Americans' homes and assault them in their sleep isn't helping them. Blowing up South American fishermen in the middle of the ocean, isn't helping them. Paying billions of dollars to a failed libertarian South American state isn't helping them. Trump realistically has reneged on every promise he's made to these people. Just done petty vindictive things and been a general embarrassment. The cultish true believers aren't even close to the majority of this negative brain trust.
Outside of STL and KC Democrats don't exist. And a lot of these people are really getting tired of fighting against things. They'd much rather have something to fight for. If someone with the vision and speaking chops of Mamdani, though a bit more palatable to their xenophobia were to offer it. I think they'd surprise people.
As was famously said
I hope I am wrong, but from my time living in the US (and travelling extensively, not only purely in the geographical sense), I have my doubts about the alleged willingness of Americans to support democracy, good governance and freedom of speech (in the real sense, not in the superficial American sense).
US did not seem like the kind of place where a significant part of the population values freedom beyond ostentatious theatrics.
Don't get me wrong, US is a great place, lots of goood people, lots to see, but also it would be naive of me to deny reality.
As democracy currently exists, captured. It doesn't serve the average person. Why should they respect it. The problem isn't democracy of course. It's the concentration of power. But concentration of power isn't something widely discussed, because it's a threat to those who've concentrated it. Democracy on the other hand. It's currently a nuisance to them. They can live with it. But they'd prefer autocracy. And it's easy to convince simple minds that a single strong man could force through the things they think they want. Much harder to convince them that strong men never have. And what they want is bad.
Yes, that's one of the things I was referring to when I mentioned good governance.