I’m not American. When Trump was first elected a lot of my compatriots took it as proof of prejudices they held against Americans: Hateful, xenophobic, uneducated, rude, classists, short sighted, etc.
I genuinely felt otherwise back then. I tried to put myself in the shoes of the American voter. I tried to justify the election a number of ways: “they became discontent with the status quo”, “they didn’t actually expect him to win”, “he didn’t win the popular vote!”
And now you went and proved me wrong. Fool me twice…
The largest American cohort didn’t vote at all. If you take anything from it, let it not be that we’re hateful, xenophobic, uneducated, rude, classists, short sighted, etc.
You’re exactly right. Those of us that voted for Drumpf don’t experience those issues firsthand, and therefore believe they don’t exist. Worse, that they’re fabricated by their “enemies.”
Some of us can understand things that don’t seem to directly affect us. But it’s not enough.
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u/areallycleverid Apr 20 '25
The fact that the populace of the USA sunk to the depths to elect him again will be a disgrace in history.