Of the most frustrating liberal narratives I read is that "Trump voters are stupid".
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Of the most frustrating liberal narratives I read is that "Trump voters are stupid". Or "they don't understand that the policies they support will hurt them too". Oh sure, there's lots of stupid people who voted for Trump. But there's also lots of stupid people who voted for Harris. Most Trump voters, much like most Harris voters are pretty much average education and intelligence. And there's some that are absolutely brilliant. After all, there are 74 million Trump voters. They're going to run the whole spectrum. The reason most of them voted for Trump wasn't that they didn't understand what he was promising. Because he vomits random words all over the place, it's impossible to actually bother to follow the words he says. They heard the ACTUAL message he was saying. "I will hurt the people you don't like in order to remake the country where people like you are more powerful than people like them." That's it. That's the message. And they all heard it loud and clear and said "yes please, more of that".
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@JessTheUnstill It's a sad truth that people are more likely to vote against their interests if it hurts people they hate or resent than they are to vote for common interests.
I think also that the significant role special interest driven psyops played in this election result has been mostly overlooked and even played down in discussion and news coverage.
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@mpotter
It's comforting to believe people were duped and tricked. But it's scary to think that many of them simply have different value systems than you. What they see as "good" is protecting "order" and "tradition" over protecting rights and equality. Oh sure, it's evil, but when you've made the core of your moral philosophy that might makes right, and everything was better when everyone knew their place in society, everything can follow from that. -
@JessTheUnstill @mpotter
I want to underscore what Jess said, and push back against the phrase “vote against their interests.”I support more immigration. Many would say I’m “voting against my own interests” because (they’d argue) that increases labor supply and thus decreases my wages, and also harms the white racial purity of the US, is obviously a Bad Thing, right???
But I am not voting against my interests because •••those are not my interests•••.
