• penquin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Reading this made me wanna cry. It’s so fucking sad that millions of people actually voted for this man. Wow, just wow.

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      1 year ago

      Sometimes I feel like Trump is at the intersection of 2 parallel universes where on the other side he sounds like Stephen Hawking and on this side he sounds like a dirty old senile grandpa shaking his fist at the clouds, because that’s the most reasonable explanation I have for why so many people voted for him.

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      1 year ago

      What’s even sadder is that it’s millions of people that some of us used to look up to and respect, now we just have a bunch of sad brainwashed shells of the people they used to be before Trump/conservative propaganda got ahold of them. They broke our communities and now they’ve broken our families, now all that’s left is for them to break is us.

      I’m not the biggest Hillary fan but she’s been right about the Trump Qult from day 1 and this is a great essay from her about this topic:

      https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        Hillary definitely isn’t the person who needs to be delivering this message, but the message resounds.

        Her being right about the Trump cult doesn’t make her any less of a milquetoast Democrat who only started caring about things like gay marriage when public opinion supported it. Any politician who can’t stand by values and instead changes tack based on public opinion is a shitheel.

        She was right about them being Deplorables and she is right about their isolation and loneliness being part of why they’re able to be weaponized.

        That doesn’t make her any less of the person whose campaign strategy was to promote Donald Trump during the primaries, and then failed to do on-the-ground rallies in swing states that she lost electorally. She actually won the popular election, by quite a bit. She was pretty much one of the few people who could have lost to Trump. Jeb Bush was also running the same year, and after two Bushes and one Clinton presidencies, I think the Democratic party really underestimated people’s dislike of political dynasties.

        Anyway, right message, wrong person to be delivering it because her fucking hubris and thinking that Trump was gonna be easy to beat is part of what got us in this stupid fucking festering mess.

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      1 year ago

      My neighbors have started putting out trump 2024 flags. I have no idea how anyone can look positive at that man…