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This kind of "dumb-dumbs voted wrong" attitude always feels widely off the mark to me. A bit elitist but mostly just inaccurate. I've been trying through a bunch of comments to think through why.
Dumb-dumbs fell for bullshit propaganda because it made them feel better. Have you talked to Trumpers? They're people of the land, the salt of the earth.
You can tell them they've been misled and they will get very upset with you.
It takes willful ignorance to still want to vote for Trump, and I'm afraid if we had an election in November they would probably do it again. Next year we will see how many want to vote for Trump's enablers.
I feel like "willful" implies that everyone is equally capable of distinguishing between facts and lies, and that people aren't easily swayed by propaganda. If the latter were true, the advertising industry wouldn't exist. Republicans have been working to dismantle public education for decades. How many people have been psychologically manipulated like this since before they could speak? They might be "old enough to know better" but did they ever have an opportunity to learn critical thinking skills? Look at what they're teaching kids in Oklahoma. What chance do they have?
The results of the election are not an accurate representation of what the country thinks.