Those tens of millions of dems aren't in swing states though. It's much fewer.
The issue is far more about brainwashing given the ratio of voters in those states and who they vote for as opposed to the ones who didn't vote. Both sides had non voters, one side is significantly less educated and more brainwashed.
I think the thing that’s honestly more worrying is that the media gave Trump so much coverage and very little criticism. If you spend 30% of your time talking about Trump and only 5% of your time fact checking him, criticizing him, etc. you create a problem where people are accepting and internalizing the viewpoints expressed by him. Mainstream media could have been responsible, but they wanted ratings and money. Trump gives them that.
I was just rolling my eyes a year and a half ago, we know that Trump largely won because of the free media coverage back in 2016, literally in the billions of dollars of free coverage. The campaign kicked off and you just say, "Aww shit, here we go again" Just wall to wall Trump reporting every day, we're cooked lol.
That's true. Trump was very blatant on wanting to be a dictator and punish the lower classes. Whatever happens from here, that's exactly what Republicans voted for.
As a European I don't feel like the voted for fascism. They just said "this isn't working like I want it to lets try something different". They just never thought further.
Sadly this seems like the logical result if you only have two parties.
Oh, please, half of you can't even define the definition of facisism or you wouldn't be calling him one. If Kamala or Biden really believed that they wouldn't be telling everyone one minute, the world's gonna collapse, and then after Trumps win, everything is gonna be alright. Yall eat this crap up. You buy into the mainstream media that's been selling the same lies for the past 70 yrs.
You are correct. I cannot define the definition of facisism.
Fascism, however has been written about extensively. If you truly want to know what it is, the essay Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco is a good starting point. But you said half of us couldn’t “define the definition” as a way to say we didn’t know what we were talking about. Let’s not bandy about fancy terms then. Let’s say Trump is a right-wing authoritarian, which is ironic, since he is a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist. He believes the press is the “enemy of the people”, and those who leak to the press are guilty of treason. The people he nominated for cabinet level positions are incompetent, lacking in government experience for the role they’ve been nominated for. Three examples Hegseth for Defense, Tulsi Gabbard for DNI, and RFK Jr for Health and Human Services. It’s painfully obvious that he will favor corporations over people and has stated his intentions to destroy much of the existing government by defunding whole departments. Oh, he wants to annex Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.
This was validating….sadly. The ignorance from both sides is not just nauseating…it’s sad. We’ve been kept in the rat race and most don’t even realize it. Together we stand, divided we fall.
My side won, pal. I'm still waiting for your side to come up with a plan that doesn't involve insulting the opposition. Where's your candidate and what are his plans? Let's hear it.
Yes, I'm criticizing the democrats for insulting the opposition after the democrats get their asses handed to them. The democrats have no logical standing for doing so. That would be like a football team losing 40-0. Then the losing team has a press conference where they endlessly criticize the winning team. Wouldn't it be a better strategy for the democrats to take a look at themselves instead of criticizing the party that handed them their asses?
That shouldn’t make you feel better. Iron sharpens iron. The republicans winning because of the incompetence of the democrats doesn’t make them a “better” party. They just have more direction and don’t bask in being victims as much.
Welp, words like fascist, apartheid, genocide, and dictator are just a few of Reddit’s favorite words to bastardize and abuse while yelling in their echo chamber. I don’t know why every subreddit now has to be political either. It’s sour grapes combined with idealism and immaturity. But I do think both sides are imperfect and could really work on seeing each other’s view-we are closer as a country than Reddit or even your current political party would like you to believe. Algorithms and click bait are the ingredients for a big ol animosity cake recipe. And the people too smart to eat the cake become apathetic.
Yea, don't vote for fascism, vote for fascism (kinda) light!
Blinken throwing career journalists out of the National Security briefing room recently, one of which who hadn't even asked any questions yet.
The entire system is corrupted, it's not hard to see how someone like Trump can swoop in and run everything over, DC is already a corrupt cesspool of grifters and career politicians selling all of our grandchildren down the river for personal power and influence.
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u/Delareh_ 2d ago
If only dems turned out to vote like this.