Not being pedant guy hopefully; SP is correct that what Trump voters got was of no value based on any objective metric of value.
The bitter pill for me is this inescapable proof that, for millions of Americans, bigotry and white supremacy is a coin whose value surpasses literally everything else.
The bitter pill for me is this inescapable proof that, for millions of Americans, bigotry and white supremacy is a coin whose value surpasses literally everything else.
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
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Male supremacy (inc misogyny, patriarchy) is older than white supremacy & has wider appeal
And his support with young white men (18-34), which hovers around 50% and is 7% higher now than in March 2017, is *overwhelmingly* about sexism.
Their rationales are puerile and laughable in their oafish transparency. Their world view is, for lack of a better word, pure evil.
It's been what I've had to come to terms with more and more from 2016 to 2020 to now in the face of large chunks of the U.S. reacting the way they do to Trump, COVID, clear police brutality, clear genocide, and so on.
Democrats weren't going to rid us of those pesky trans / disabled / elderly / sickly / poor / immigrant / non-white / and other unproductive undesirables.
Under Trump, rich white folks will have it all, with no one left to hate on except themselves.
trump looks and acts like an authoritarian leader, so the party of mostly authoritarian followers support him
https://theauthoritarians.org/
The Byzantines had the Crusaders for an excuse; we got a drug-addled Boer and Big Balls the tech-douche.
I don't think that day is ever coming. Even if the whole MAGA clique were to finally be kicked out of goverment, its voters will go to their early, poxy graves convinced they were right.
Fascism demands obedience yet empowers revolutionaries; it calls for a respect of tradition but also works to dismantle them; Their enemies are intrinsically inferior but are also powerful and ever present.
What news from the front on Dog the Bounty Hunter and whatever the cat fishing wrestling show was?