• FMT99@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I don’t like Harris very much. But the fact that half the country is willing to choose a deranged con artist over her is just beyond any rational thought.

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      1 month ago

      Everything is fear based and not rationale.

      Trump voters fear immigrants; Fear their guns, religion and identity are somehow being taken away. They fear and refuse to understand the world is constantly changing and that we need to adapt along with it.

      Harris voters (rightly) fear trump and all the bigotry, racism, and misogyny he has enabled and emboldened.

      Most of the American people don’t have something to vote for, only something to vote against. The ruling class is further detached for the working class by stoking culture wars gaslighting on the socioeconomic disparage

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      1 month ago

      They want Trump in because he represents an amoral outsider. Someone who is disenfranchised by the moralisms of the establishment left.

      This is how they see themselves.

      They like him because he’s a shithead who doesn’t care to preserve this system. They want change even if it’s bad.

      In this way pointing out that he’s a shithead and a risk to democracy - helps him.

      Unfortunately it’s the Harris campaigns only option, as the alternative is to say: He’s actually a highly connected establishment figure who will pull the same establishment shit we do. This would have obviously blow back for an establishment figure.

      They want Trump BECAUSE he’s a train wreck.