The election taught me that:
25% of the country is sorta paying attention.
25% of the country fits into two categories, Evil (100% selfish goes here, still counts as evil), or stupid as a bag of hammers.
50% of the country can’t be bothered to participate either way. Gonna lump them in with the hammers.
Not great.
More people vote like they’re buying their brand preference for soap than for any specific reason.
I put more effort into buying soap than some people do in voting. Then again, I prefer it not eat my face
That’s disrespectful to hammers.
Hammers are useful.
Sure hammers are useful, and I own like 10 different types of hammers. I’m an apprentice blacksmith. That said, if I gathered up all my various hammers, and stick them in a sack, I’m not expecting anything intelligent out of them, or anything intelligible, except the occasional “clink,” or “thud.”
Hell, I shit talk my hammers all the time. I’ve yet to hear one complain.
At least the hammers are not actively contributing to the downfall of the US. Therefore I still classify then as smarter than 1/3 of the population. I have never had a hammer spread misinformation or turn on FOX news.
That’s simplifying it a bit much. I think it’s more like:
Out of the voting population:
10% are shitty people (evil, greedy, etc). These are usually the loudest bunch
15% are single issue voters that didn’t understand elections aren’t JUST about one issue
45% are just stupid and go with what they are told without any critical thinking on their part (bag of hammers group)
5% are misogynistic and would never vote for a woman
15% are somewhat paying attention
And 10% actually understand what’s important
Outside of the voting population, 36% of eligible voters are lazy or apathetic and didn’t vote (Again, bag of hammers).
That’s going out of your way to complicate things. Shitty people and single issue voters are a distinction without a difference. You cannot be a single issue voter and not be a shitty person. Enabling and endorsing the most horrific grifters. All because they’ll happily lie to you. And tell you they will deliver it your little Pet Project. Especially repeatedly as they do. Makes you a bad person.
Life is complicated, and so are people. Painting with such a broad brush is akin to being a single issue voter.
Not in the slightest
Oh no! Did you forget you were poor when you voted to punish the poor?
These people are victims too. Our schools were sabotaged for private profit. News was sabotaged for private profit, and these people have been swimming in “distrust your own senses” corpo propaganda for half a century.
The capitalists that bought our government made these people. I don’t like them, they’re not redeemable, but they are victims, the capitalists want you to hate these people and keep buying their products.
Be angry at the right people. The owners. Pity their pathetic, for all intents and purposes lobotomized rubes. They’ll still call capitalist made climate change a hoax when the CAT 5 has turned their home into confetti.
You can’t expect people of or below average intelligence to just magically think and reason critically in a nation where such skills are taught at college level.
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Yeah I’m fresh out of compassion for these assholes. May the next four years be a living hell for them, or even full on pull whatever lifeline they’re clinging to out from under them. If it culls a bit of evil from the voting population, that’s best case scenario at this point. They voted to light the country on fire, let them burn.
Poor and stupid voters are the leopards preferred lunch.
It is amazing that people are actually that dumb to believe that Trump would somehow exclude some people who won’t be able to donate five-digit or better donations from harmful decisions.
This is pure Herman Cain Award material, just with economics instead of vaccination. The GoFundMe requests will be plentiful, the cries for help on Facebook deafening and the compassion for them evaporated a few months ago.
Vote for what gets you mad, spend the rest of your life being sad.
Oh, he will.
Benefit cuts are one of the areas where we always seem to have bipartisanship. Clinton famously cut the social safety net too. Who do you vote for when both parties have a record of killing benefits?
After all, even after another round of benefit cuts, Republican and Democratic voters will still line up to vote for it. Again.
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