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Until my final breath I'll never understand how George W. Bush wasn't a dealbreaker for every future Republican president. And then they voted for Trump of all people.
Like that's it. We humans have failed evolution.
He kind of was in a way. The 2016 primary featured a dozen Bush wannabes, and Trump just went on stage and embarrassed them all by pointing out all the things they did horribly wrong (war, healthcare, etc), he correctly identified what made Republicans unelectable nationally. People related to that anger.
That's one of the most frustrating things about this right wing populism. They're correctly pointing out problems: wealth inequality, expensive housing, warmongering, etc. The problem they then cause is that they blame the source of these problems squarely on some scapegoats and then do things that only exacerbate the existing problems they diagnosed in the first place.
Billionaire donors gaining even more power and stripping the few checks against said power, doing shit all to make groceries cheaper, and now they're out there blowing up boats in international waters and committing large scale violence against people in this county. Yet... crickets from the folks who voted them in. Just maddening. They just wanted to shit on the scapegoats
It's time to point to the LBJ sign again.
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it, If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. – Lyndon B. Johnson, attributed by Bill Moyers
its always anger or fear, these are the only 2 emotions conservatives can express.
I don't blame them for feeling either, honestly. But I do blame them for what they do about it.
White Americans lost their fucking minds when Obama was elected
White americans voted for Obama. Blacks are only 13% of the country.
Big if true
All my white friends love Obama.
i doubt most of them voted for obama, alot more went with the gop instead.
Well....Americans have failed evolution.
Devo was right.
it isnt because evangelicals are afraid of losing thier influence in government, plus thier hold on the US, and oppression of POCs and lgbtq+ people, and are afraid of retribution and reprisal from the latter 2 groups.
If you pour enough money/resources into anyone, you can get them to win an election. Trump was just the easiest one to pour money into: he's easily swayed, even more easily bought, and has a certain... shudders charisma (?) that makes him more electable than a rando mild conservative.
What you're witnessing here is just capitalism. People with a lot of money and power wanted to gain even more money and power. Trump a convenient vehicle for that. So they poured money into his campaign and he won.
It's a good reason to consider sortition, or a system that distributes power so that it's super diffuse.
An example would be abolition of SCOTUS: Instead we create a special court for each individual case, pulling nine judges at random from the Appeals districts. That way, no Supreme Court justice can be owned the way Thomas and Alito are -- or one can, but they're not likely to get on all the cases a billionaire deems important.