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Thing is, it's gonna hit the rural MAGA folks the hardest.
There's a part of me that wants to go "I told you so.." which is expected..
But the more cunning part of me wants to leverage their hunger, dismay and rage and work to aim it squarely against Trump and the entire MAGA movement.
MAGA will blame the Ds and "libtards", because that's what they've been told to do.
Most of them will, but we don’t need most of them to tip the scales.
Who isn’t? It’s the “Schumer shutdown” and what did they say on Fox News? Something like “open the government and then discuss”. They eat that shit up.
Who do you imagine is going to blame the republicans? Trump is untouchable because they’ll just invent some story to justify their blind faith.
Hell, I had a family member tell me “you got to read between the lines. Don’t take anything he says literally”
Yup. Chomsky talked about the Angry White Man syndrome and how they were right to be angry, but they were angry at the wrong people.
Faux and other wingnut welfare outfits didn't run in the red for years on end (maybe some indefinitely) for no reason. All that infrastructure - Faux, Washington Times, hate radio, Regnery publishing, etc....is all there to properly indoctrinate a certain percentage of the population into believing all their problems are a result of anything else BUT Republican and conservative ideology.
I'd like to have empathy, and publicly I won't call out these hypocrites, but I honestly can't care less if these fuckers starve. I feel bad for the children and helpless that are affected, but the others that voted for this are reaping what they sow.
Yeah, but "he's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting".
I try to have compassion for people that have made bad choices in their lives, but fucking hell, it is really hard to sustain that for people that voted to hurt other people. Actively wanting that to happen. Not to really improve their own lot in life, but to hurt others.
Exactly. I don't enjoy or actively seek the hurting of these individuals, but I can't keep caring about people that repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot. I can empathize with people that make a mistake. I will go so far as to say that people that voted for Trump in 2016 fucked up, but that they made a forgivable mistake. I can't do that for anyone that voted for him in 2024. There are no excuses. He was a known commodity that detailed exactly how he was going to rule if elected again. Nothing that he had done since January is a surprise at all. There are plenty of rural residents that are grouped with the majority that voted for Trump that unfortunately are being punished for the actions of their neighbors. I have the most sympathy for those families as they aren't just most heavily affected, but they are grouped up with those other terrorist supporters. The rest, other than the innocent children, can sleep in the bed they made with empty stomach and crippling debt.
Yep they can have the day they voted for.
use that to build class solidarity.
mocking them will achieve nothing except make you feel better
It doesn't even do that. People want and hope it'll do that, but it doesn't. Not really.
They'll whisper "owned the libs" with their keto breath and die of starvation before they admit their orange god is a fraud.
I'm currently getting funding from my mother who is also about to get furloughed for working for the military. So she is losing double what she sowed in the election. You fuck around and your family loses, and your family's friends lose. I'm currently in the trickle down era!
It's hitting visible minorities the hardest. That's clear. God forbid you speak Spanish and look "Mexican"... MAGA will come in at second-worst, perhaps, and some of them will be happy about that.
I'm a moderately intimidating-looking white guy and the fear in the eyes of all the little latina moms in the supermarket when they look at me... It's so tragic. I'm just trying to be as polite and accommodating as possible whenever I can to quell their fears. Feels like the social fabric is just melting around us.
just don’t give in to the “i told you so’s”.
then they’ll only resent you….
They already do. A lot of people have cut off contact entirely because of politics.
electric boogaloo
Yeah, then. They already do resent us because some propagandists told them to. We are their enemy because we try to improve the lives of all, even those they hate. I hope that hate can satiate their hunger next month, because that's all they'll be left with.
*more.
yeah i resent them too, point is showing his base how he betrayed them, not about being right.
Playing these people experience the consequences of their voting decisions instead of bailing them out is necessary. They get to vote for the nasty racist things they want and they don't feel the consequences and nothing will change until that changes