It’s not like we all supported him and then we all saw what he was doing and hated him.
About 25% of Americans Voted for Trump.
About 24.5% of Americans Voted for Harris.
The rest didn’t bother to vote, or were ineligible (too young, non- citizen, convicted felon etc.)
He might have lost a few supporters from his actions on office, but the ones that voted for him are mostly still cheering him on, because he’s telling them that he’s doing a good job, and they don’t question it because their team is “winning”.
The rest of us who hated him, still hate him and want him removed ASAP, but he has enough money and powerful friends to keep him safe (for now).
The more important question is why 50% of the population, minus ineligibles, don’t care about politics or think not voting means they have the moral high ground.
Many Americans are looking for unicorn politics and the rest of us suffer because of it.
I would guess that the majority of the 50% of non voters willingly didn’t vote, but some of that 50%, other than the previously mentioned exceptions, maybe couldn’t due to disenfranchisement from purging voter roles, or since it’s not a government holiday, maybe couldn’t leave work to vote. I believe legally it has to be allowed, but we all know that doesn’t mean that it always is, and some people work a distance from their voting station. For example, I travel an hour for work on Wednesdays, stay remote, then drive back home Thursday evening. If that happened to be on a voting day where early voting isn’t possible, that could disqualify me, or at least make it really difficult to vote.
But as mentioned, I think the majority is due to apathy or ignorance, willful or not.
I was furious that I felt like I was essentially forced to vote for Harris, but I did, as a tactical electoral decision.
But very obviously, there are an absolutely enormous amount of people here who are sick to death of corporatist neoliberal bullshit that the Democratic rank and file consistently perpetrates, and those politicians are seemingly under the impression that everyone’s too dumb to realize that’s what’s going on.
Well, their bluff got called - and yes, it happened in just about the worst context it possibly could have, but then again, the DNC thought they could phone it in (yet again) and it blew the fuck up in their face. The Democratic Party absolutely deserved that outcome (not to mention: pretty much all of the party leaders appear to have learned absolutely nothing from this shitshow). It’s just an absolute tragedy that said outcome also has the implication of fully destroying any remaining vestige of Pax Americana, any pretense of altruism in American foreign policy and geopolitical action, democracy itself in the US, and perhaps even the US itself in the mid- to long-term (i.e. I would not be terribly shocked if the US ends up balkanized in the coming decade or two). And it was all predictable and avoidable, and nothing was done because, in addition to a complete and total lack of political will, too many people were making too much money for too long of a time, and didn’t want any of that shit disrupted.
Anyways I’m gonna go have a cig or something, jesus fucking fuck
Because that’s not exactly how it played out.
It’s not like we all supported him and then we all saw what he was doing and hated him.
About 25% of Americans Voted for Trump.
About 24.5% of Americans Voted for Harris.
The rest didn’t bother to vote, or were ineligible (too young, non- citizen, convicted felon etc.)
He might have lost a few supporters from his actions on office, but the ones that voted for him are mostly still cheering him on, because he’s telling them that he’s doing a good job, and they don’t question it because their team is “winning”.
The rest of us who hated him, still hate him and want him removed ASAP, but he has enough money and powerful friends to keep him safe (for now).
The more important question is why 50% of the population, minus ineligibles, don’t care about politics or think not voting means they have the moral high ground.
Many Americans are looking for unicorn politics and the rest of us suffer because of it.
I would guess that the majority of the 50% of non voters willingly didn’t vote, but some of that 50%, other than the previously mentioned exceptions, maybe couldn’t due to disenfranchisement from purging voter roles, or since it’s not a government holiday, maybe couldn’t leave work to vote. I believe legally it has to be allowed, but we all know that doesn’t mean that it always is, and some people work a distance from their voting station. For example, I travel an hour for work on Wednesdays, stay remote, then drive back home Thursday evening. If that happened to be on a voting day where early voting isn’t possible, that could disqualify me, or at least make it really difficult to vote.
But as mentioned, I think the majority is due to apathy or ignorance, willful or not.
I was furious that I felt like I was essentially forced to vote for Harris, but I did, as a tactical electoral decision.
But very obviously, there are an absolutely enormous amount of people here who are sick to death of corporatist neoliberal bullshit that the Democratic rank and file consistently perpetrates, and those politicians are seemingly under the impression that everyone’s too dumb to realize that’s what’s going on.
Well, their bluff got called - and yes, it happened in just about the worst context it possibly could have, but then again, the DNC thought they could phone it in (yet again) and it blew the fuck up in their face. The Democratic Party absolutely deserved that outcome (not to mention: pretty much all of the party leaders appear to have learned absolutely nothing from this shitshow). It’s just an absolute tragedy that said outcome also has the implication of fully destroying any remaining vestige of Pax Americana, any pretense of altruism in American foreign policy and geopolitical action, democracy itself in the US, and perhaps even the US itself in the mid- to long-term (i.e. I would not be terribly shocked if the US ends up balkanized in the coming decade or two). And it was all predictable and avoidable, and nothing was done because, in addition to a complete and total lack of political will, too many people were making too much money for too long of a time, and didn’t want any of that shit disrupted.
Anyways I’m gonna go have a cig or something, jesus fucking fuck
Those who didn’t vote and those who voted for Trump have Minnesota blood on their hands.