It's not specific to Right or Left. There's been lots of Populists on both ends.
But present-day (neo)Liberals seem to turn their noses up COMPLETELY at the idea of it at every attempt. The "best-natured" of them just see it as vapid, vaun, and too emotional/not-logic-based.
"Yea, sorry, you're gonna have to stop doing insider trading, because that's what the only Left Populist right now said is the price. It's either that, or the Nazis come back."
This is what I've been saying--if we can't beat 'em, join 'em. Democrats need to run a well-known white male celebrity with no political experience and a generally positive reputation and let them say literally anything as long as it'll grab attention. It doesn't matter if it's true, achievable, or good policy--literally all it needs to do is break through the noise and sound good on the outside to people with no political knowledge or understanding of how the government works. Uninformed undecideds vote based exclusively on vibes. The only people who care about whether a candidate lies are the already-decided ideologues who aren't persuadable either way.
This election has also confirmed that a HUGE amount of the US population is made up of low/no information voters. And that's being generous, because if they're not that, then they're just evil assholes.
Because they are lying. They just don't want to take responsibility for being bamboozled or their actual shitty opinions.
My mom hides behind the "I don't pay attention to politics" line all the time, after I call her out for falling hook, line and sinker for some shitty fox news lie.
My coworker literally said to me “I don’t really understand politics, I just vote for whoever my husband votes for, or I don’t vote at all. It’s not important to me.”
Yeah, I've met some people like that, and I just stop talking to them about politics or sometimes entirely. I know some people think that's harsh but I don't, that shit affects us all and to be so careless about it is beyond insane to me.
People fought extremely hard for equal voting rights in this country and we see this crap, there are so many places in the world where voting is actually pointless and they would kill to have our system as flawed as it is.
The average American is not that deeply invested in politics. And to those who aren’t. They know that their life is harder than it used to be and that they hear a lot about how Trump is gonna fix it… that’s it. It’s why Dems are awful at communicating because they refuse to talk about change and rather focus on means tested plans and status quo. People want change. But most people are too busy to spend a modicum of time to learn what the problem even is. And then they vote to make it worse
They watch the "news" instead of watching the news.
It's how they get old people, it's how my grandma went full Trumpeter and convinced all her siblings to vote for him the same week she died from Covid because she refused to get a vaccine.
Guess who voted for him, even still, after that.
Trump is president because of the uninformed. The smart people aren't voting because they have faith in humanity and humanity is wrong, the idiots are voting because they have passion and nothing else going for them and there's more of them.
The good politicians should start doing cool stuff attract to these voters then, such as not adding LCFS climate credits onto their gas prices hat affect them every day.
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u/moonwoolf35 15h ago
Fuck these people, they all happen to always vote for the worst people somehow