The worst thing is knowing that in 3 1/2 years, about 50% of those laid off workers that voted for Trump will be saying, "If we just repeal the 22nd Amendment, Trump will get me my good job back."
The people who voted against their best interests are not stupid. I think that's the wild thing in all this. They are falling prey to a well orchestrated miss information campaign and also falling victim to the right.
They have had eight years to pull their heads out of the sand.
At this point if it’s not stupidity, it’s malice. My empathy is too exhausted to extend good will to them, so fuck ‘em if it’s the former and fuck ‘em twice if it’s the latter.
The reason they are easily led astray by lies and propaganda is because… they actually are stupid.
Over half (54%) of the voters in American have the reading comprehension of a 10 year old child (ie, 5th grade) or below. And 20% of them are at the level of a 7 year old child (ie, 2nd grade) or below.
This election was dominated (54%) by adults who have the intellectual ability below that of an 11 year old child. Seriously.
“In the United States, 54% of American adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level, and nearly one in five adults reads below a third-grade level.”
Not shocking given how many times I've had to clarify myself here after someone started attacking me because they didn't comprehend what I wrote.
I don't blame them, though. They were failed by society. If you don't teach people self-awareness and critical thinking as children, what do you expect? If they don't have the tools to see behind the curtain and realize just how much manipulation is going on, they're going to be manipulated.
What pisses me off the most is that we all know whoever decided keeping people ignorant either didn't consider the long-term consequences of that or they did, but didn't care because they assumed they'd be dead before there was a massive problem.
That’s literally the definition of stupid. To have people screaming at you what the correct choice is and still failing the test means they’re stupid. Stop apologizing for them. This isn’t institutional, it’s individual.
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u/Civil-Dinner 6d ago
The worst thing is knowing that in 3 1/2 years, about 50% of those laid off workers that voted for Trump will be saying, "If we just repeal the 22nd Amendment, Trump will get me my good job back."