Time and time again I remember this meme
Basically democracy is government after the people, by the people, for the people . . . but people are retarded . . .
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Is it too early to start talking about the abysmal failure of the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" strategy?
It's more like: wut! I gotta get off my couch and what in line. Fuck that. It can't be that bad.
Oh it's going to be bad now but don't worry about voting again. He said so. You can stay on your couch and never vote again...even if you really want to.
Biden must be laughing his ass off right now. Should have let the old guy run. Turns out no one really cared about the presidents age.
The old guy should have never run for a second term so we could have had a chance at an actual full dedemocratic campaign out of someone.
There is a saying...
Make a mistake once and you can call it learning, make a mistake twice and you are eh... not so smart
Americans need education.
Didn't dubya say it best?
People need to stop blaming voters, we all need to start understand why this happen more and more in the world and not judge the voters for their decision. I have some theories but its not the time or place, but stop say "people are dumb" or "People need educations"... 100 million people cant be all dumb or uneducated, go deeper!
They've been conditioned for 8 years that any negative thing they read or hear about their leader is "fake news", and likely their own pride of not wanting to consider the possibility they could be mistaken has made them easy targets for the misinformation machine at Fox News to avoid telling them objective facts to instead pander to their emotions and tell them what opinion they should have. Mass manipulation by biased media.
Yes, yes they can.
Both can be true.
I also think part of the problem is that with the internet, we may just have a lot of data readily available, so much so people are overwhelmed they just tune it all out. We can spend a lot of time wondering why people vote the way they do but if the losing party doesn’t take the time to be retrospective and humble as to why they lost then I can’t blame people for that too much.
Im sorry, but if Gaza, egg prices, and Harris not havjng a Y chromosome is enough for a magat trifecta, the voters are the problem. Not just the ones who stay home or vote third party, all of them. Americans are whats wrong with America
trump may be the iceberg that sinks the ship but people must not forget that it was obama that steered it so expertly there.
whatever he has done in his eight years to engender such deeply entrenched hatred within the populace -- so much that even morons like mr. 47 can exploit it so readily -- needs to be studied so that it can be avoided in the future.
Obama didn't start Fox news bro. Obama didn't defund education and get rid of civics classes. Obama didn't cut taxes on the billionaire class and corporations. Obama didn't sell those same billionaires and conglomerates the major news outlets. The voting population in America only know what they're told because they're never taught to think critically. Look at the rise of disinformation regardless of political ideology. Look at the rise in scams.
What devil has this guy made a deal with? No matter how stupid, obnoxious or abrasive he is, people worship him. He constantly screws himself over and then before he has to face serious consequences he trips on a rock and somehow everything's alright again for him. At this point he literally can shoot someone on 6th Avenue and get away of it. I think Trump is solid evidence that we're living in a simulation and somebody is fucking with us, because life just doesn't work the way it works for him. Somebody's thumb is on the scale.
What devil has this guy made a deal with?
He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.
Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that's guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.
What's more concerning is that millions more people saw it and didn't bother to stop him.
Jokes aside, he was heavily supported by Russia and Israel who do have quite some influence through social media
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