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I concede that there is a line where it's not totally your fault, but I think there's still some blame.
Overall, it's expensive to be poor, not everyone has time to be educated, and sometimes you don't know what you don't know. Our systems are set up to fail you in a lot of ways, and education is another battleground.
I don't think that absolves you when there are constant headlines talking about the blatant racism, homophobia, crass hatred, the last time they were in office, the economic plans. Hell the more I think about it, the more in your face it all is.
It's not all the blame, it's definitely more than none.
I think a fair number of people don't watch or read the news. And I don't really blame them. But when it co,es to the uneducated who do... the ones I know (very small data size) believed that the bad things about trump were fake news. And I get that. The news media is pretty blatant with all the clickbait and sensationalization of the news. They have plenty of reason to distrust it. It takes a lot of effort to keep up with which news sources are still mostly reliable. I don't see a lot of uneducated people who are working manual labor jobs having the energy and motivation to put in that kind of effort. And the article makes a subtle point. The gov wasn't improving his life, so he voted for someone different, hoping for change.
I will admit way back when trump ran in 2016, I thought maybe the fact that he was getting real attention might shake things up. I assumed he would lose like he always did over the years. Yet, he certainly has shaken things up. Maybe in the long run, we might see some real change. I kinda doubt it, but who knows. The rise of the social democrates or whatever we are calling them is at least a step forward.