Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.
Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.
The change in men under 30 is impressive.The question is whether that’s a lasting change.
That group is voting on the fact that their economic horizons have become so limited (job market sucks, housing prices are way too high, etc). If Democrats can address those concerns, it could be lasting. If they don’t I imagine they could whipsaw back to Republicans.
They’re not rational utility-maximizers voting in their own economic interests. They’re authoritarian enablers getting a sense of tribal belonging by doing what they’re told. Some of them have a conflict between these two impulses, but some are so far gone that they’ll do whatever they’re told, even if it destroys their livelihoods or even lives.
and that is why GOP leaders, donors,abd foreign influencers need to be brought out into the light and cleansed VS being able to slink back under a rock only to crawl out after some time passes and the public is primed for ultra BS culture wars backed by religious bigotry. Crimes against humanity have been committed, many have defrauded the US people in plain sight and these truths must be laid out and dealt with. I don’t need vengeance but we must defend, heal, and move forward.
Those issues affect everyone though so why they have to be lil beotches about it still doesn’t make sense. Also, if they want those things to improve, and have any critical thinking ability to understand what actually works, they would not vote maga. Since they haven’t bothered to learn any of this yet, I doubt they will. They want to benefit from being white guys, the privileges we do get, I know, but I still vote for Dems and stand up for liberty and justice for all! We still have advantages, but those guys are selfish and want all the advantages.
That’s kind of the answer for everyone. We’ve just been bouncing back and forth between the two parties because neither has reversed the decline in people’s economic outlook. The system, left in place, makes life worse for almost everyone and our choices have been between “lies and then nothing happens” and “lies and accelerates the decline”. Since they both let (or encourage) the decline, whoever can more credibly lie, usually whoever isn’t in power, gets the vote.
we are labeled a flawed democracy, we do not have equal representation because of two main reasons, Gerrymandering allows politicians to pick who votes for them and how districts maps are drawn in ways to disenfranchise voters. The Heritage foundation wrote the citizens united law allowing unlimited dark money to flow into elections in response to Obama’s grass roots funding successes. We are faced against fascist and oligarchy along with social media worming any and all crazy ideas into the heads of soft impressionable populations.
As I said in another post: the mandate for Dems is: “Make sure the last 2 years can never happen again!” There is so much low hanging fruit to support that goal, but now we gotta watch which the Dems blow this once in a generation opportunity. (Repubs are evil, but Dems are incompetent)
The problem with that is that what they’re responsive to is perceived decline and perceived progress. And the MAGA crew are also highly motivated by spite, and would happily let Trump shit on their kids’ breakfast as long as they thought it might hurt an immigrant, black, brown or queer person.
The reason that former US allies are still not going to trust the US after this vote is that after the absolute shit-show that is a Trump presidency with a GOP house and GOP senate, 50% of American men are STILL voting Republican.
And, that’s the vote. That’s not the people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the GOP this time, but stayed home rather than vote Democratic.
It’s just a matter of time before the US swings back to MAGA again. If that happens the US might once again renege on its treaties, threaten allies, start wars, and break international laws.
Though almost nothing is impossible, almost nothing is inevitable either.