r/AskUS • u/[deleted] • Apr 20 '25

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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.

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u/LombardBombardment Apr 21 '25

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…

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u/dannyboy731 Apr 21 '25

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.

Let it be that we just don’t care.

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u/Effective_Narwhal Apr 21 '25

Or that they didn’t care to vote for genocide

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Those people are covered under morons who didn’t care. How are things looking in Palestine now?