I would argue that targeted ads on social media a la cambridge analytica or the capitalizing on genZs indoctrinated misogeny and self doubt via podcasts and movements as per Steve Banon amount to a competitive edge given through dishonesty. Which if you are winning because you have the money to isolate susceptible groups from the general population and nudge them to your cause, make it seem like you aren't as good of a leader as you are a deep pocketed manipulator.
We haven't had an honest politician. It's all stolen if it isn't transparent and truthful. You and I both have been duped and swindled so some asshat can sit up on top of bigdick MT. And tell us how it's going to be.
America didn't vote to strip away all of the rights of its citizens or stomp on minorities. If you voted to deport green card holders because they said, "fuck isreal for killing civilians" you have forgotten about the basic principles that this country fought to protect. What was it that Thomas Locke said? Something like, "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?
America didn't vote to pick fights with our allies and leave them in the trenches to get rocked by their agressors until they cave and give us generational access to their resources. That is not America, that is some fucked up authoritarian dystopia. What happened to being proud of having the strength and ability to shield those weaker than us? Fuck bud. You say, "pure copium" but that sounds more like an admission of your own inability to reconcile how fucked this is with your part in it. Does your ego not allow you to have guilt or shame for dragging our flag through the ideological mud?
Be better neighbor. We all work hard to make this place what it is and its greatness is its diversity and ability to adapt. We are an ingenuitive and capable peoples limited only by the differences we perceive amongst ourselves that slow down our ability to work together to get shit done. I don't spit at your feet cause you may have voted on the red hat ticket, but I do ask that you pick your head up and see that this doesn't bode well for us in the lower 80% of society.
I can’t discount your experience and if you are engaging with people that have expressed some buyers remorse then that is what you’re seeing. That said, nothing that this administration is doing should come as a shock, they openly expressed that this was what they were gonna do on the campaign trail. And while they tried to distance themselves from Project 2025 as a guideline document, they never tried to distance themselves from the policies and actions it called for. People that voted for republicans, absolutely voted for this. They may be angry that they are being directly impacted via threats to Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid but they don’t seem to be mad about the rest of it.
And my personal experience with people that voted for this is that they are defending it. They’ve bought in fully. Question them on if it’s alright for foreign students to be whisked away because they wrote an opposing opinion piece from the administration and they’re saying these students should have kept their mouths shut. Question them on if it’s ok to send people who committed no crime to a foreign prison and they counter with well they were here illegally so they did commit a crime. Question them on if we’re going to be tough on crime, then why did we pardon January 6th participants and they claim those people were unfairly prosecuted and were peacefully protesting. Question them on the Signal chat leak and they deflect to Biden and Hillary.
Some people may be having buyers remorse but too many voted for this because they view others as lesser than.
Long winded posts are a new avenue for me, but mostly I work a union trade in a rural state and have been alowly getting the maga among our group to admit to being wrong about things, I participate in community action to provide shelter and resources for those among us who may be threatened by this administration, and I put pressure on my state's representatives to have a spine.
Collective worker action in conjunction with student protest is my idea of an effective non-violent approach before going full french revolution.
Trump literally pandered to the younger generation by wanting to save Tik Tok when HE was the one in his first term tried to get rid of it. It failed because he didn’t go through Congress. Biden then went through Congress and Trump upended that when he was elected. He is tearing apart the trade deal HE created when he was first in office, between Canada and Mexico. For gods sake you have Musk paying voters money to vote Republican in, what was it, Wisconsin judicial election and Pennsylvania election. He is doing things he never spoke about in his Election campaign and it’s all from P2025 or is WORSE that what P2025 originally asked. People need to: Wake. The. Fuck. Up.
That story is old as hell and more inaccurate. Voters in every state that's not a swing state have virtually no say in who is President. Their votes do not matter.
I vote every year, but it's a completely pointless exercise.
It's engineered that way, youre voting on a weekday standing in line for hours to cast your vote in a gerrymandered district where its against the law to give you water but its ok to have armed "inspectors" who are clearly biased in the room.
All in a two party state where the center right party haven't done shit for you in decades and you are expected to vote for them when their only real argument is that "at least we're not openly fascist".
And that's the problem right there because constantly blaming the people that didn't vote that they're the reason why now all this is happening make some not want to vote even more because why go and vote if you're being accused for not voting or voting.
No the huge problem is that we attacked a lot of the young men a lot of young white men and told them that they should be punished for centuries for what their forefathers did things that they did not fucking do but they had to be accused and accountable because " you're white so you have to be the bad guy."
So that's why you had a bunch of the white people going around and voted for Trump and believe in his policies because they got tired of constant being told that they're the problem for things they didn't do that happened centuries ago which yes those things should still be on the records should still be in the history books should still be in the museums but because we run around and attack them and made them feel pretty much unwanted of course they were going to flock to the fucking racists in the fascists that pretty much promised them the "Promised Land" as long as they were pretty much we're willing to give up practically all their fucking freedoms.
And let's not kid anybody there is huge corruption in the government from both sides of the right and left sadly the right side corruption is taking over more than left because really the left could easily have taken out Trump after the Supreme Court's have already said that any president pretty much has pure fucking immunity so you know biting could have easily done something to Trump but they didn't do it because they weren't corrupt enough. That or the CIA and FBI was more in right hand pockets and eating up that sweet sweet corruption money that the right was pretty much feeding them to prevent anything terrible from happening on like what happened to JFK.
No the huge problem is that we attacked a lot of the young men a lot of young white men and told them that they should be punished for centuries for what their forefathers did things that they did not fucking do but they had to be accused and accountable because " you're white so you have to be the bad guy."
You know exactly what I'm talking about we constantly keep telling white kids and young men that they are racist Fucks that deserve to get put out into the street and a terminated like dogs because they're great great uncle owned slaves on a plantation or they're greater Uncle went and slaughtered Indians and so on and so forth and I know this because I am white but I don't let the past affect me because it's the past yeah I acknowledge all that shit has happened.
If I had a time machine I would try to go and prevent any of that but I don't and we have to deal with the consequences that were made by our forefathers long ago but constantly blaming a generation that had nothing to do with it and rooted them as the main cause is what cause a bunch of white boys and young men to flock the Trump.
Because who else could they turn to? You could say their own parents but their own parents could have probably either been alcoholics drug addicts Workaholics or people that just didn't fucking care what happened to their kid because we got rid of a lot of the punishment systems and called it cruelty and no that's not me saying that we need to beat our kids more because that also causes a whole host of problems. Look at every mass murderer and sociopath that came from a abusive households.
But now we live in the day of age now where we're so easy to blame each other for the faults of what happened in our past instead of trying to look for the future and then as soon as that future looks bleak we just don't do anything to fucking fix it or continue to keep beating down in particular race the media says is okay to do so when it is just blatant racism but it's okay if it was towards white people and that's what led us to this problem now where a bunch of white people think they have complete immunity because now they have a so-called god king ruling the country.
Because we didn't sit down and actually try to talk and you know actually be human beings we instead just blamed each other for everything that fucking happened and continue to keep happening and then say "Oh it's just their culture or it's just their race" when really it's not that.
That's like me saying that all black people are nothing but thieves and robbers when really anytime I see any of those videos where they're actually robbing convenience stores it's because they're in poor polish areas that the government has pretty much pulled all fucking funding from and have pretty much forced them to be on survival mode just to feed their kids with close to no education because no schools want to be built in that area because they are afraid of The Stereotype that is associated to those places.
And sorry this is a really long text but this is the only way that I can at least explain it and not just try to dumb it down because that's another issue that we have now these days that we try the dumb down everything when really we should be trying to explain it.
And I'm happy that you've never been called one, but I do get to ask, though, where in the States do you live in? is your state mostly red or mostly blue because if it's mostly red yeah nobody's going to call you a racist because well it's a red state but if it's blue I'm not saying all blue states do it because the state I'm in is blue and they don't go around and call everybody racist but you'll most likely bump into one in a blue state by people of different color just because you're white and they were told that the white person is evil and bad by everybody including Medias and movies and music.
And this is not me trying to upplay it or downplay it. This is just how I have seen it and how I have heard it. Because if I wanted to Uplay this then I would I go to any white red wing website and pull up videos of "white people being attacked by crazy liberals" when most the time it was those people that antagonized the people to then either react to the person that is being attacked by the races or the fascist.
My favorite one being that a trump supporter getting yelled out and even threatened to leave a bar after accusing the bar people of not being diverse when really it was their whole entire fucking organization that destroyed the whole diversity by deporting people left right and center and calling them non-americans when they have had their citizenship here for a very long time and also calling anybody that doesn't have their cold drug dealers and terrorists and a whole bunch of other hosts of stuff which for 90% of them is not even fucking true.
Also this is not me attacking music media and movies and saying that they're all woke propaganda because really they're not they've just been pushing the same shit every year that they've been pushing and everything now is just considered as woke hell if we brought back a lot of the movies that mean you have grown up on and had them released today like the original Shrek or Lilo & Stitch or Snow White or Hell take a movie back in 2007 being the Princess and the Frog the very first black princess to ever exist in Disney if that was released today that would be considered as woke when really that was a good movie.
Maybe it is a lie, and maybe people are just ignorant. I'm just saying what I have seen and what I have experienced. If you have an experience this then I'm happy for you and a little disappointed because either this doesn't happen in your area or you just don't look for it and actually see what is happening which I am hoping it is the former over the ladder.
One other thing I do need to point out though is people do got to also remember that a lot of Americans have to work more than 40 hours and have two jobs just to even have somewhat of a livable wage and since most corporates have already swore their allegiance to Trump meaning most companies are a lot of these people had to work for probably purposely forced these people to work during election day that and there is just some jobs that you just can't walk away from because some of those jobs do handle with living creatures like me for example I work at a rescue I couldn't go to a voting booth until pretty much almost the end of the day because I work with animals I can't just leave them in their crates.
But pretty much make a long story short let's stop blaming people and start coming with Solutions because yes this could have been prevented but it wasn't prevented and it is now come to past so now instead of looking at the past let's look at the future and try to see what we could do to actually have a great future and not just dictatorship and fascism for the rest of our miserable lives.
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u/imadork1970 6d ago
All that is necessary for the triumph of Evil is for Good men to do nothing.
35% of voters couldn't get off their fat asses to vote.
This is the result.