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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I have a question about this and I hope I’m able to ask it correctly the way it’s sitting in my head.

    I know throughout history there have been strongmen who come to power, promise the world, and don’t deliver.

    I also know about propaganda and its role in the above scenario.

    My question is - if these images are seen by enough people who truly believe what they say - and they’re poor, maybe older, not in a great place overall, etc, and they voted Trump because they believe this…shit….what happens when they don’t deliver?

    If they’re expecting homes and help and a magic, simple solution to all of their problems that never delivers, what happens not only to them psychologically, but also what bigger impact will their reactions have on the country as a whole?

    In the US, I’m not so optimistic we’ll have that moment given the past 8 or so years. There will never be a realization that the Emperor has no clothes but the help will still never arrive. How long can that be sustained, and what happens when it can’t?

    I hope that made sense and I apologize if it doesn’t.


  • So I agree that this is awful, and our family is most definitely the result of immigrants coming here due to persecution in the country they were in.

    But my MAGA family’s response to that? They were “legal” at the time (1700’s). These immigrants are coming here illegally.

    Never mind that ~ 100 years ago my grandparents were punished at school (beaten) for speaking their native language there - because they made that illegal, too.

    But they’re still the “speak English this is murica” MAGA types. But this time it’s different. They do not see the hypocrisy. They do not care. They just hate brown and black people.