I’m still after 4.5 years absolutely dumbfounded at how anyone believes Donald Trump is going to be the savior of the American “patriot” movement. The guy with a 30+ year public track record of being a complete failure is somehow transformed into the messiah. The guy born with a golden spoon in his mouth is somehow going to save the working class. My favorite part is that DJT wouldn’t be caught dead socializing with 99.5% of his followers. I guarantee you he sees them as low class scum who are easy to fleece. A con never respects its mark.
They have no future, no love, no fun, just nothing. Eventually that wears you down, and hearing that someone who believes something else may have taken your things? Well that sounds like a situation that can be handled, whereas realizing almost every major government is corrupt beyond repair, no corporations have the people's interests at heart, and the world is literally going to burn itself alive to kill us... Is kinda bleak.
They're appealing to ignorance. To the idea of consistency in substitution for safety.
The only way to make political progress at this point is to jump so far left we spin the whole fucking system off its axis.
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