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  • I think a whole lot of idiot Republicans vote R because at least some part of them expects the Democrats to be able to restrain R’s from doing the very worst/stupidest of things. And so they file that vote as a performative/team sport kind of thing, because what else are they going to do? Vote for a DEMONcrat? How could they vote for babykillers who want to turn your son into a girl?

    And, probably, for many decades, yeah, the Democrats were able to be a counterbalance to the craziest shit the most rightwing member of the Republican Party might want to do…but for decade upon decade, both parties have been trending to the right, and so it’s no longer the case…











  • Their single voter issue is “hurting the right people” and the “right people” is you.

    I remember talking to a redhat in-law and him going on about Biden’s so-called “horrible” economy that we now need Taco to help “recover” from. I pointed out that both he and I seemed to be getting by just fine, and in fact, both were doing better under the Biden years (this was early 2025, and of course the market was in free-fall right around then).

    He kind of pauses when acknowledging I was doing just fine, and doesn’t want to say it outright, but suggests that maybe I’m not someone that should be doing just fine (but it’s fine if he is). I think he worded it something like, “wellll, maybe not all the right people were doing okay under Biden”.

    Because I went to college, is basically why. He’s one of those people that believes getting a secondary education somehow “taints” people. Of course, exemptions must be and are made, since even Taco went to college, FFS.

    So, in at least one confirmed case, their issue is not that they are doing just fine under Biden (and TBF, both he and his wife worked perfectly fine jobs under both Taco admins, at least so far), but that others (i.e., college-educated people like me) might be doing just fine. I guess they want to see people that ruined their good morals by going to university standing in line at the soup kitchen? I just don’t fucking get it. The more educated people you have, the better off the entire society is going to be, but I guess a certain kind of person without an education just resent people that are smarter/more educated? It makes no sense at all, though.

    If we were to have some kind of Chinese Maoist revolution, where we had idiots like this throwing down all the educated and all the professors, our society would probably have millions dying of starvation and from violence, etc…but it is seemingly what a lot of these anti-intellectuals really do want.