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But I already Pokémon Goed to the polls
9 million people who voted for Biden did not for Kamala, and there is a large measurable shift in favor of Trump among Gen Z compared to the trend of previous generations moving left.
Among MALES, not among females.
There was an article, perhaps the FT, which showed drastic divergance between the 2 populations of the same age.
https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-be-more-likely-to-vote-conservative-than-men-but-that-all-changed-in-2017-we-wanted-to-find-out-why-214019
shows a HARD left-swing for women, XOR a HARD right-swing for men, in the UK, ( both would look the same, on that chart ) only-recently.
That trend, though, is global, male-supremacism hand-in-hand with the upswing of male fascism/authoritarianism.
Males generally back male-supremacy.
Females generally do not.
"journalism" nowadays works hard to NOT show the correct granularity-of-view, showing what's actually going on: the oversimplifications & dumbing-down are too beloved of the establishment.
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A majority of male youth voted for Trump but EVEN AMONG FEMALES there was a large shift to the right.
In 2020 Biden had a 36 point lead in young women over Trump, while Harris only had a 24 point lead. Thats a huge shift.
When people spend 14 hours a day on their phones exclusively on one of a handful of social platforms it becomes trivial to mass manipulate the population. Almost as if... It was by design.
It lends itself particularly well to a two-party system. I mean a two-party system is basically a one-party system with an extra step. Right or Left, Black or White, Up or Down, This Thing or That Thing. Very easy to pit people against each other. Candidate A wants lower taxes and reinstitute slavery. Candidate B wants higher taxes and blanket death penalty for all crimes. Which side are YOU on?
I cannot believe how broken the American political system is, and I do not see it surviving, it is going to just slowly crumble like Rome did, only faster. It just can't survive, it is fundamentally flawed and is incapable of scaling over time, it's like a perpetually growing Jenga tower that also constantly has load bearing pieces plucked out of it.
I'm genuinely surprised it is actually still standing, I thought it would be over by now, like when the needle has been firmly stuck on red for twenty minutes and your car just inexplicably keeps going on fumes, like, how can this fucker still be going?!
A two party system is infinitely better than one.
6 million? Or a little bit more than that, like, 7? SIX SEVENNNNNNNNNN oh my god I'm going to vote for Kamala now, damn that got a good laugh out of me, definitely changed my opinion of her for the better!