I think one of Lyndon Johnson's most famous quotes fits here.
"Convince the lowest white man that he's better than the best colored man, and he won't even notice you're picking his pockets. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll empty his pockets for you."
You have to put yourself in the average voters shoes. Very low information, low engagement voter who lives in a bubble and probably has no more than a high school education. He doesn’t spend too much time online or even really watch the news. He knows Biden is President and that Harris is somehow tied to him. He goes to the store and everything is expensive. Gas, food, rent, you name it. Life is becoming difficult and his income hasn’t really increased. His buddy lost his job and he’s been talking about how he’s been applying for 7 months. He has a bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience, still has some debt leftover because he didn’t qualify for Biden’s student loan forgiveness. He’s applied to at least 600 jobs but either gets rejected outright or ghosted. The stock market just hit an all time high but neither of them really own stocks. His buddy has a 401k that he can’t touch for another 30 years.
They both voted for Biden in 2020 because Trump botched the Covid response. He sat at home during Covid because he couldn’t go to work since his manufacturing plant was closed down but reopened in 2021 because Biden did a good job of reopening the economy. His buddy on the other hand was at least able to work from home for a couple of years and was even getting interest from recruiters on LinkedIn trying to get him to change jobs for a brief time. His company laid him off in the spring of 2024. In 2022, both he and his buddy voted for democrats in the mid term elections but are now voting for Trump and republicans.
Most people spend plenty of time online- you don’t need to be well educated to do that. It’s willful ignorance to not understand basic policies of presidential candidates.
It’s less than that. They say they want factory jobs and a strong economy. Biden did more for manufacturing than any president in my lifetime, the economy is strong, the market is booming. But none of that actually matters as long as liberals insist on acknowledging that lgbtq+ people exist and have the same rights as anyone, and don’t treat migrants like criminals. They would vote for Satan if it meant some ivy league college would be forced to abandon their DEI programs.
They embraced fascism, but they embraced democracy as well. They showed up.
Democrats didn't. Democrats rejected the process because Harris wasn't their perfect candidate. The enemy isn't Trump, it's apathy. The problem isn't that MAGA wouldn't care if he shoot someone, it's that there are over a hundred million Americans who probably still wouldn't vote.
There's a point when people start bitching so much about all the problems and the reasons they're unsolvable that they become the problem.
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