So from what I can tell, a big reason why Trump was reelexted was that a huge chunk of the voting population wasn’t educated or intelligent enough to know what they were even voting for. This has led to cries of the voting population being insufficient-prepared to vote on the matters at hand.
I’ve seen solutions that involving educating the voting electorate, but that’s a more longer-term solution that’s going to take years, if not decades, to fully see through. What we need now, at least in my opinion, is a quick way to achieve a similar enough function, at least on the surface.
From what I found, just telling the people to research and vote accordingly on their own isn’t going to work, as I realized in this comment. So clearly we need a more hands-on solution. But what’s that solution? How do we, well, “force” the voting population to vote “the correct way” on current issues and how to fix them?
However, all of this will be for naught if it can be reversed. Even if we somehow manage to get a more sensible administration in four years’ time, there’s no telling if that will be ping ponged back after that. The same thing could be said for our voting population. It’s been said that the GOP slowly but surely eroded the quality of education in the USA until it was ripe for exploiting. So assuming that we do eventually go back to what it was before then, how do we prevent it from sliding back down again?
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Tax the rich and prioritize the general public having a status quo across all people. Which is equity, lift everyone to the even playing field they keep pretending everyone is at will require the billionaires to not exist.
I’m sorry. The reason President Trump was reelected was that most Americans were/are fed up with leftist ideals and policies. They finally realized how much the left had been lying to them, when the truth about dementia was finally exposed, after left us claiming for years that it was the right wing conspiracy theory. They realize they had been lied to by the left when the truth about the Covid death came out, when even the head of the CDC admitted they had been manipulating the number of death by including any death in which a person was found to have Covid antibodies as a Covid death, even if the true cause was a car accident.
The American people are waking up to the fact that the left does nothing but lie and manipulate.
You may think Donald Trump is an a hole, arrogant, and abrasive, but at least a shoot from the hip, and you know what you’re getting.
Just saying that the people who didn’t vote the same as you is just stupid is one of the reasons why y’all did not win. If you want to win again, try to understand why we think the way we do. Don’t just chock us down as unintelligent. That is how you ensure that a true conversation is never had, and how you will never get people to see why YOU think the way you do.
Look at the math of how presidential elections work. The main election is mostly meaningless, as most people just vote along party lines. If one party has fucked up badly enough, the other party will replace them as president. So the real election happens during the primaries. In 2016, Trump received 14 million votes in the primaries. That’s all it took, out of a population of 323 million at that time, so less than 5%. Because of the way our two party system works, you have the dumbest 5% of the population choosing the president every four years. This is the exact thing the founders hoped to avoid when they set up the electoral college.
Claiming Trump was re-elected because a large portion of the electorate lacked the intelligence to grasp what they were voting for isn’t just lazy analysis—it’s intellectual cowardice masquerading as insight. It reduces a complex political landscape to little more than a smug sneer and reveals more about the speaker’s elitism than the electorate’s intellect.
People didn’t vote for Trump because they were duped. They voted for him because the Democrats offered nothing but tepid reassurances that a visibly declining status quo was somehow acceptable. Kamala Harris wouldn’t dare criticize Biden, which made the entire campaign feel like a gaslight loop: “Things are great. Ignore your bills.”
Swing states didn’t turn red because of mass delusion—they did because people looked around, saw higher grocery bills, unaffordable gas, and global instability, and realized the party in power was more interested in self-preservation than solutions. One side promised change; the other offered a press release.
So if your go-to explanation is “voters are dumb,” perhaps it’s time to question your own grasp of democracy—or at the very least, check whether your political analysis was lifted from a freshman sociology thread on Reddit.
Be very careful about this line of questioning. Democracy is supposed to yield what the electorate wants, no matter the outcome. It’s not the process, in general, that requires thinking through. It’s the inputs that need attention.
Our system is very, very complex and involves a large number of interests, also known as pluralism. Every single change will inevitably cause other changes.
Finally, the fundamental basis of democracy is psychological. People are not and never will be 100% rational actors.