I don’t know who needs to hear this, but rural America could not have elected Trump alone.
We only make up 20% of the US population and a hell of a lot of us didn’t vote for Trump…
I have spoken to thousands of rural Democrats. Blaming an entire demographic isn’t helpful to the cause.
We only make up 20% of the US population and a hell of a lot of us didn’t vote for Trump…
I have spoken to thousands of rural Democrats. Blaming an entire demographic isn’t helpful to the cause.
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Solutions are secondary.
That, surely, must say something?
I think it is more struggling to understand how this has happened (far beyond this election or even Trump)
The status quo the Dems had helped propagate and maintain - along with every administration, Republican and Democrat, since Reagan - sucks. Now more than ever.
The solution is for the Dems to offer positive change as an alternative to mindless destruction.
Both of these need to be eliminated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-david-shor.html
It’s those stupid colored maps that ignore population.
rural areas voted for trump. white xtian women, and non-college white xtian males went trump
cities, otoh, tend to be blue. strippers went for harris. black women were key to the 2020 win.
count only pops of <5000 and see
Could somebody explain a foreigner, how can gerrymandering be legal? Seems like voter suppression to my eyes. But then, in my eyes FPTP is the worst system to start with 🙁
About 70-80% are cult members. The remaining 15 million are complicit moderates, or believed the lies they were fed by the right wing disinfo firehose about the 'not Project 2025' platform.
The dehumanizing slur "MAG*t" is especially toxic.
They best move.
And what did the richest man in the world and now the most powerful oligarch in the government have to do with it?
Love you but rural red America is a very real problem for many reasons.
This insane backlash from Trump? His revenge for a nation that overwhelmingly rejected him.
I’m only guessing, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Harris was hovering around 70% of the vote.
No one will ever be able to convince me otherwise.
Harris’ numbers only started to appear to tank, as soon as Musk entered the fray, in earnest.
I don’t believe in coincidence.
BULLSHIT.
What’s more galling, however, is the Dems doing not a single thing to challenge it.
Spineless, feckless, useless, corrupted weaklings.
The truth is more complicated than that.
Keep working. We need way more than the popular vote.
Must of thought, hey that pile of phlegm Trump won't win so why waste my time and use my democratic right to vote. I'll stay home and do nada.
Tch, tch America, now you're living in a 4 year nightmare.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/why-eligible-voters-did-not-vote
-they do not research for truth/fact
-they want to be entertained
-they assume noone else cares
-they assume nothing they do matters
It was hacked, they used scare tactics (bomb threats at polling places), gerrymandering, etc.
The ones that voted for him.
And the ones that didn't.
Did we do enough?
Did we talk to our friends, our neighbors, our family?
To make them understand the stakes, to not stay home, or vote "no choice".
We did it.
Only we can fix it.
(lifetime 💙)
A lot of very reasonable human beings are trapped in very unreasonably run districts.
Clinging to the narrative that our elections are secure b/c the long-cheating GOP found no evidence of *DEMOCRATS* cheating in 2020 is naive.
Why were election security experts ignored? B/c, decorum?
The non-partisan folks at Election Truth Alliance & Smart Elections are doing the good work.
1. Those that stayed at home
2. Women that voted for him knowing full well he has ZERO respect for women.
3. Young men who are “feeling” oppressed
4. Palestinians who didn’t like Bidens approach to the conflict,
5. Democratic Party for their mis-reading the room
NE02 was gerrymandered to include part of Sarpy county to overcome the Democratic votes in Douglas county - Don Bacon wins every time
Rural voters = minority rule