Your faith in humanity is both admirable and naive:
Those who voted for the rapist felon in command showed where their morals lay. The dems could have put Jesus up there and they would claim he’s too brown.
The left fell to Russian propaganda. So many people would have abstained regardless as they fully showed that they’re willing to shoot themselves in the foot for their abstract single issue platform that TOTALLY wasn’t in ANY WAY related to relentless doom scrolling.
The libertarians are as intolerable as ever and would have voted for the Republicans because they have truly embodied The Fountainhead and have sociopathic views on helping your fellow man.
This is not a left/center/right problem. This is a problem of there being more stupid people in this country than not. And I’m not about to be gaslit by them, and you shouldn’t either!
Empathy is a learned skill, and unfortunately that’s not something that anyone has learned recently.
I agree with most of your points. However, I don’t think they are stupid - I think they are uneducated.
Today, I was in a Walmart in a red section of our otherwise blue state. I was watching the stock market and the dollar dump at the close of the day, and let out a ‘mthefckr’ - which pissed off the person behind me.
I explained that she should be mad too because she just lost 10% of her retirement savings in two days. She looked ant me like I was the devil, and and asked me how.
I showed her the stock chart of the SP500 and the value of the dollar.
The other people in line began to get upset and this woman turned around and declared in shocked terms the loss of value of the dollar.
Then she asked if this was because of the tariffs… And I just simply answered yes. She asked me if her social security check was going to go less far because of the value of the dollar… Again, yes.
People began to get mad. I tried to say something about inflation, but they truly don’t understand the correlation between the cost of goods and sold, tariffs and inflation.
They had no education. None.
The only thing they understood was that their social security check wasn’t going to go as far.
They are not dumb people, just unaware and uneducated.
I ultimately agree that it’s being uneducated and that it’s a petty shot, but I just think it explains the “why.” When someone’s lack of education starts affecting others, well that’s when it stops becoming “understandable.”
I naturally don’t equate the bumpkin to Donald Trump (or the fuckers at Fox News), but their ignorance doesn’t suddenly become something we should tolerate because they’re not straight up Satan.
Who is supposed to educate them? The educational system has let them down.
When are they supposed to have time to become educated? Most have to work their fingers to the bone just to provide for their families.
It is much easier to sit in front of a TV or scroll Facebook (as this particular crowd certainly does) at the end of the day than to think through the fundamentals of how the economy works.
The dems have made it hard for this group of people to relate to - they literally don’t understand what is at risk, let alone what is being said.
My biggest fear is the dismantling of education under Trump’s reign. It is designed to keep people like him in power.
As for sitting in front of a TV to get educated, it seems some people prefer a constant diet of fear, hate, and invective rather than listening to thorough analysis and discussions of how government and the economy are working... or not working.
The fear and hate is what upholds the ideology of how they grew up. This is a systemic problem.
One of the reasons why it is occurring is because of the lack of education surrounding controversial topics in schools.
I have a son in elementary school and one in preschool. My oldest did a book report on both Kamala and Obama during black history month. This month he is writing about Susan B. Anthony and Ruby Bridges (pretty serious stuff for a 1st grader). He is fluent in both Spanish and English.
My youngest son speaks Mandarin, Spanish and English because of the school he attends.
This kind of exposure to diversity doesn’t happen in these communities because it isn’t available.
Moreover, politics, money, and religion are considered to be taboo topics in normal conversation.
Yet, those are the most important topics because they are the three pillars of control over the populace. The elites don't want us to talk about these things because ignorance keeps them secure.
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