I don't understand why AIPAC, Citizens United, exorbitant health care and education costs, tax rates for the rich, slavery in prisons, and every other goddamned ridiculous thing that other first world countries don't have wasn't a deal breaker.
Because so many people genuinely believe the election was stolen. It bewilders me
Fox News. That's like 90% of the reason. And Trump is a fucking manchild that can't handle reality.
I think a lot of that is because they want to believe it. It's confirmation bias exacerbated by using only news sources who are motivated to lie to them because billionaires don't want to pay taxes or fair wages.
The republicans have a very robust propaganda machine. They digested and reframed it very quickly.
Perception is reality.
Control news, social media, and church and you can distort/gaslight reality.
Only the better educated can sometimes see through bullshit.
Because, for his supporters, anything but them getting their own way is an injustice.
Voters are just lazy and stupid.
Voters saw January 6th and were like "I'm gonna stay home because voting doesn't matter or I'm too busy and lazy to defend rights and democracy".
Voters also see Trump and are so stupid to think that he was gonna make their economic life better. SleePy JoE diD tHaT! jOeVeR
Single Issue voters are just absolutely f**king stupid.
Media also sanewashed RFK and Trump again. The cult will always vote for their candidate. The normal people need a "reason" to take action. People love blaming Kamala for not beating the "oh-so-easy" Trump but they wouldn't move their worthless asses to vote anyways.
"those people are ignorant"
-My conservative mother, pretending Trump didn't work tirelessly for years enraging them, tell them to do exactly what they did, and then gleefully watch for 2 hours while they did it.
In other words, she thinks trump had nothing to do with it, as laughable as that is.
The second I saw he was running the first time, I knew it was going to be a disaster. Maybe I couldn't appreciate just how much of a disaster it would be though
It's because the Democrats didn't inflict any consequences on Republicans and used the "let's look to the future and not dwell on the past" framing on it. How can you blame voters for not taking it seriously if Democrats didn't?
You're speaking of long after Jan 6th occurred. The OP post is talking about on that day. As in, "how did those that would actually stand to benefit become willing to benefit at the cost of following the rule of law?" The disappointing answer is that those performing the insurrection on Jan 6th, as well as those that would stand to gain, are more concerned with being in power rather than respecting justice and the rule of law.
Until my final breath I'll never understand how George W. Bush wasn't a dealbreaker for every future Republican president. And then they voted for Trump of all people.
Like that's it. We humans have failed evolution.
I was working the day of j6 and I will never forget all of my coworkers watching it and fully cheering like it was the Super Bowl.
Boy am I glad I didn't have that going on.. that would've been problematic.
See this is why I think the US missed a revolution somewhere after WWII.
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