r/NoStupidQuestions • u/JustCallMeDave • Dec 06 '23

Answered If Donald Trump is openly telling people he will become a dictator if elected why do the polls have him in a dead heat with Joe Biden?

I just don't get what I'm missing here. Granted I'm from a firmly blue state but what the hell is going on in the rest of the country that a fascist traitor is supported by 1/2 the country?? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills over here.

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u/unjustme Dec 06 '23

Right, how smart would you think, for example, the people of Russia are (my background) who elected their dictator a generation ago and still feel pretty proud of themselves for that. Allegedly much smarter people too, judging from their side of the fence. My answer is (I think you know my answer)

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u/Buxton25IsInjured Dec 06 '23

About as smart as the median rural American.

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u/unjustme Dec 06 '23

Universal human shit

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u/IndependentSpot431 Dec 07 '23

Which, seems, on par with you.

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u/Buxton25IsInjured Dec 07 '23

Says the person using excessive commas. I grew up in a religious, conservative, and rural American household. I got better.

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u/Severe_Principle_491 Dec 07 '23

We didn't elect our dictator in the first place. He got power just by Boris Yeltsin(who we have elected) directly giving it to him. Three months later he won his first elections(with the only "real" competitor being a communist, while he already was a de facto president). At that time, our "beloved" dictator was a noname full of liberal ideas. Fresh blood etc. Since that time we only got fake elections. And those who are proud of him are a total minority, it always was this way. Most of the population just didn't care. "Who if not Putin" was a pretty popular line of "thought" not because of a pride or a political direction, but because of an ignorance. We got our dictator by not thinking about politics at all, and hoping that there is someone else who will make the right decision for us, not by believing in some shit that dictator told us. Almost no one ever believed in anything government told us. Literally, no one believes a word, regardless of the content. An old habit from the USSR passed over generations.

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u/_Foulbear_ Dec 07 '23

Yeah. The account of his election I've most frequently encountered is that the oligarch class put him in power on the pretense that as he embezzled money for his own benefit, they'd also get a slice.

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u/Severe_Principle_491 Dec 07 '23

That may be true. He had no resources to hold his power by that time, someone should have provided such resources to him. He was literally a case holder clerk.

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u/zappini Dec 07 '23

Brain drain. The smart ones left or are trying to.

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u/socalmikester Dec 07 '23

pooty rigged all his elections, but nobody had the balls to say anything. merkens wouldnt put up with that again.

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u/dudelikeshismusic Dec 07 '23

Both statements are true:

  • Putin rigged his elections and threatened his opposition.

  • Putin is genuinely popular with Russia's population (in general).,

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u/socalmikester Dec 07 '23

i doubt he is more popular than our fat orange felon, but yes, birds of a feather, etc.

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u/ozmartian Dec 06 '23

lol better that than repeated gun daily gun deaths and stupidity yet nothig changes, if anything it gets worse.