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Originally Posted by Muta
When the election is a choice between an educated person with empathy, ethics, integrity, morals, and intelligence, and the other person is one of the worst human beings alive (convicted felon, rapist, known charlatan, and Russian asset)... it's really not a hard choice. It REALLY isn't. At least is shouldn't be.
The problem lies in manipulated media, a failed education system that doesn't place an importance on critical thinking, and America's addiction to team politics.
Let's be clear here - Trump and the GOP are the problem, and have been for a decade now. Never lose sight of that. Trying to lay blame on Biden, Harris and the Democrats for Trump is just weak gaslighting to try and rationalize the orange #### gibbon's behaviour.
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Republicans are just really good at appealing to a multitude of single issue causes that have a specific benefit to an individual. These issues are the easiest things for uninformed people to understand and requires no abstract thought for the greater good or seeing the forest through the trees.
One of the most obvious examples of this was from an interview I saw on CNN yesterday of a woman, 24 years old, with fertility issues. She said that she didn't like Trump, thought he was not a good person, but voted for him because she wants to have a child and wanted free IVF. She admitted that he wasn't going to be good for other people, but was willing to hold her nose so she could get what she wanted. The kicker for her is that she was also a park ranger who lost her job and now has no income. So now she can not even pull herself up by the bootstraps and save money for what she wanted for free.
The Republicans have always tried to appeal to individual gains rather than the collective good and with people these days siloed in their social media bubbles, they don't see how a lot of these promises do not reconcile with each other or sacrifice collective good for their own selfish gain. They want government efficiency, but also free niche medical procedures. They can choose to just hear what they want to hear and the algorithm enforces it. It's like they can't step back and say, whoa wait a minute, how is it even possible to follow through with all these promises and not also be on the receiving end of some of the things I don't want.