• village604@adultswim.fan
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    1 hour ago

    One thing you have to keep in mind is these people might not be aware of the things he promised. Not everyone is terminally online doom scrolling politics, and the media sources they consume likely buried the information or straight up lied about it.

    They’re still ultimately responsible for being negligent, but a great many people don’t know the platforms of the people they vote for.

    The Republicans have been waging war against our education system for over 50 years now, critical thinking and questioning authority are actively discouraged, and they’ve been told since birth they have to vote R or the Democrats will take everything from them. They were raised in a cult.

    Don’t automatically attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance. There’s a good reason why people tend to be less right leaning after college.

    The people, in my opinion, who are most to blame are the people who knew what he promised, but didn’t vote for Harris out of protest. They were ultimately what caused Trump to win.

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      20 minutes ago

      Yes you may be right about the ignorance vs malice. There is a lot of ignorance everywhere and it feels like malice because it is incomprehensible how one can be so unaware of what is happening around them.

      The education system has been under attack everywhere, I think in every country for the past 30 years standards have dropped every year.

      Those people that didn’t vote out of protest had the worst timing in history agreed.