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Only because it affects him directly
The older I get, the more it becomes apparent that the primary political distinction between people is how many degrees of separation from themselves they care about people. The more you care about people barely connected to you at all, the more progressive you are. The more your scope of concern for people is limited to people in your immediately sphere, the more conservative you are.
It is not always selfishness that sways conservatives. They can care genuinely and deeply for their family, friends, colleagues, and community. But that is typically as far as that scope of concern goes. They can take on more progressive political positions or make limited exceptions when their lifelong regressive politics suddenly negatively affects themselves or those close to them. Their kid comes out as trans, their work friend is black, their community is being spoiled by a corporation, and suddenly they are a progressive ally on those things alone. But what they care about will still be limited to those in their bubble. They will not care that their politics has the same effect on someone else's family until it happens to their's. It's a genuine character flaw. They are incapable of general altruism.
Unfortunately, that it's such a widespread characteristic means society can only maintain progressive institutions by figuring out a way to protect them from being considered "enemy other" by people like that. There are selfish reasons to support safety nets - treating infectious diseases in poor communities prevents transmission to wealthier communities, for example - but those reasons haven't been sold in a way to gain traction with today's conservatives.
Game theory and Contractualist ethical theories should be compulsorily taught in high school. Then you're not too dependent on empathy or caring.
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Plus goldfish memory ensures it won't stick
Same old story. Only once they are personally impacted, then they give a shit.
The guy would probably vote for trump again if given the opportunity
Or at best, just not vote.
Listen, I'll take disengagement at this point (from former maga).
Just don't fall for inevitable voter fraud that comes after.
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"I hate Trump, but it's better than the Demon rats!"
Only took him 10 years to figure it out
Posts like this were popular when Trump lost, but look at where we are now. His supporters will hop right back on again and again.
"He doesn't care about ranchers" - yeah, something happened there. He was allllll fine with fuck the immigrants, fuck the brown people, fuck everyone else, but finally Trump did something that hurt his personal little feefees and now he's upset and surprised that Trump would do whatever it was, but he'll get over it and vote for him or whoever he annoints or whoever the Republicans put out there.
Fuck these people. I gave excuses to these fuckers for decades and I'm out of excuses for them. They are traitors to our democracy and voted in fascism time and time again. No sympathy for traitors. They have collectively killed millions of Americans, and at least millions of others around the world if not hundreds of millions by their actions.
Honestly I don't think it's relevant how shitty a person Joebob McCowfucker is. It's still good that he's not supporting trump any more. Shitheads can't do as much damage when they aren't banding together.
He'll support the next one. That's a problem.
The issue is that their empathy, like most people's in history, extends to their immediate circle and no further. Once he became affected, he realized Trump doesnt care. Everything else was a victory in the name of GuyWhoHasntWrongedHimSpecifically because He said so
It’s so interesting that they can spend so much time thinking about people not in their circle, but also have no empathy for those people despite being hyper aware of them
They watch unironically 10+ hours a day for 20+ years propaganda telling them these people are evil and deserve no sympathy, so I guess it's not that surprising.
He rapes children, that's where every "debate" with a trump supporter begins and ends with me lol. Fuck beef prices or foreign policy, trump belongs in a cage where he can no longer hurt children, period.
No he'll vote for trump again if he could. Rural people are brain dead
In the name of probably quite a few rural people: fuck you
As a different rural person, you completely miss the point. I agree with them, fuck rural people.
Am rural, not brain dead enough to vote right wing
Trump's support has fallen by another 0.1% this month! It will be soon.
Here are some approval ratings for context:
- Trump: 39.5%
- Merz: 14%
- Macron: 27%
- Starmer (just before resigning): 23%
Trump's lowest ever approval rating in RCP's average was 37% (Dec 2017), which was around the time it was revealed to the public Trump aided the Russian military in attacking US targets.
For context Germany (Merz) isnt a 2 Party-System. Basically we have 4 Major ones currently (afd, spd, cdu, green) and a few minor ones (left, left but pro russia, libs). With the major ones usually getting double digits % and the minor ones barely make it over 5% which is the baseline to participate in parliament. There are also very small parties listed as "misc" getting 10-20 of votes but not participating in parliament. Imo this 5% barrier and ignoring 20% of votes is a problem.
Anyhow, if the votes concluded its normal that multiple parties form alliances and agree which policies they want to implement to get over the 50% threshold. Mostly dropping anything the voters wanted and implementing stuff rich people want under the blanket of "finding compromises".
While 14% is really bad it's also just harder to get everyone behind you in such a plural political scene. Also Merz said stuff to insult about any worker. But the policies are particularly bad for workers yet the (self attributed) workers party SPD agreed to these policies. So Merz is problematic but it's 2 whole parties that are problematic and outright lie during elections.
For context Germany (Merz) isnt a 2 Party-System. (sic)
Sure, that's true. Angela Merkel's approval rating, however, reached as high as 77%.
Imo this 5% barrier and ignoring 20% of votes is a problem.
I am also not a fan of the 5% threshold. If, as opinion polls now suggest could be a real possibility, the AfD manages to gain an absolute majority with less than 50% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, it will be more than a problem but a full-fledged constitutional crisis.
Sure, that’s true. Angela Merkel’s approval rating, however, reached as high as 77%.
that mostly is a question of how the question is being asked, like you could ask merz approve/disapprove, or does he do a good/bad job...
but for merkel in regards to her doing a "good" job.... suprisingly many people thought that, see https://www.statista.com/chart/23144/merkel-opinion-polls-since-2005/
and as far as i can tell, the "14%" number is voters from another party's approval rating of merz, see https://min.news/en/world/1507853cbdd8c108c09a91cd4c3a9850.html
The support rate of the Union Party dropped to 27%, and the support rate of the Social Democratic Party dropped to 13%.
which would make a lot more sense.
but the fact remains, that merz is quite unpopular due to his political agenda, and him opening his mouth
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Cool story bro. I have family in farm country and can drum up a dozen farmers/ranchers right the fuck now who pray before they eat and vociferously defend everything this administration is doing to defend against the libs. By right now I mean RIGHT NOW, AFTER alllllll of the pedo shit and the losing the made up war, tariffs, all of it. Does. Not. Matter.
They either won’t or can’t give up the sunk cost
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anyone can be wrong, anyone can be fooled by false promises by sleazy politicians. but the fact that it takes people so long to realize this is bewildering. i mean, it's his second term. what big accomplishments from his first term made him vote for trump again?
I think the issue is a lot of my feller Americans are really fucking stupid. And that’s saying a lot coming from a 15 year IV drug user. 6 years sober. But still if I seem to be smarter then most Americans we seriously have an issue wrong with our society. My brain and body are fried.
Give yourself credit, my friend
Most people couldn't even fight the battle you won
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He's worse than that: Trump doesn't give a damn about anyone who isn't Trump.
What do you mean? He cares deeply for those people who give him lots of money 🤡
But only while they're giving him money.
The second he has the money, he no longer cares.
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I bet that if he watches FOX News for a few hours a day, he'll come back to understanding all his personal hardship is necessary so that Trump can protect him from the libs, the worst of the worst immigrants and, to quote Darlene Graham Nordone, Boys in girls' sports.
Very few people voted for Trump to bring the cost of eggs down. They voted for Trump for permission to do that sweet, sweet racism.
Only when it hurt them personally... And then forget when a promise is made to hurt others.
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He's giving the room away because he no longer needs it. He's entrenched and he's got his gestapo.
“until it happens to affect me, i’ll shit on everyone else” - old people
This is easy to fake, but I think it is happening. They're spamming Truth Social with bots to drown out the dissent now. That's not good for them.
It might be more about the dissent rising in the right-wing media ecosystem than people waking up ontheir own, but the dissent in the right-wing media system may be driven by falling viewership, so maybe it's the whole thing collapsing in unison. Last poll I saw had him down to 33% now.
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up until the gop quietly puts the funding a bill which wont be televised or reach any msms, because they dont want the bumpkin supporters to see how bad farms ar being screwed.
Wont matter a lick if they dont go out and reverse that fucking vote.
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I remember reading a modern Captain America comic set in the WW2 era. The Red Skull, Hitler's top agent, is planning his escape from the inevitable fall of the Nazi regime. The Skull blames Hitler personally, but is still 100% committed to the cause. The Skull has enough gold to live like a king forever, but he's planning on using it to start the next Reich.
He is losing his rubes one by one. Who cares? These morons will support the next criminal they are told to support until they realize it personally affects them negatively.
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s...so he's saying it wasnt worth getting poor and broken just to pown the dems? like maybe his best interests in his vote were a little off?
"Trump is losing the room" About fucking time. Although I really hope many of those farmers go under along with him. Americans deserve to hurt for this.
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