There’s been a ton of discourse over the past few months about how the Democrats failed in their messaging or were out of touch with voters. As well as discussion about how Trump “won on the economy” or “won on the border,” etc. I’m not absolving anyone, but doesn’t most of the blame for Trump rest with the citizens of the United States?
Even if you remove politics entirely from the equation, I’m struck by how somebody so demonstrably unfit like Trump could be elected president…twice! I get that politicians can’t trash voters, but doesn’t electing somebody like Donald Trump illustrate a lack of critical thinking or seriousness among voters?
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There’s been a ton of discourse over the past few months about how the Democrats failed in their messaging or were out of touch with voters. As well as discussion about how Trump “won on the economy” or “won on the border,” etc. I’m not absolving anyone, but doesn’t most of the blame for Trump rest with the citizens of the United States?
Even if you remove politics entirely from the equation, I’m struck by how somebody so demonstrably unfit like Trump could be elected president…twice! I get that politicians can’t trash voters, but doesn’t electing somebody like Donald Trump illustrate a lack of critical thinking or seriousness among voters?
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>…doesn’t most of the blame for Trump rest with the citizens of the United States?
Sure.
…but, now that we have agreed on that. What do we do about it?
We just need to accept that people were willing to have this guy as president, knowingly, and move the fuck on; rehashing the what they should or shouldn’t have done bullshit is a waste of time.
I think it means that the bounty of the second machine age, the technological revolution – did not bestow benefits to all parts of the country. Silicon Valley produced one amazing innovation after another and minted millionaires and billionaires middle America got little. They were vulnerable to being told falsehoods as to why they were left behind. Trump came in and blamed immigrants for their economic woes. It went down, smooth and easy. Now he is trying to secure unilateral power by appointing personally loyal people. It will take considerable destruction for Trump supporters to come out of their slumber.
Yes. The electorate as a whole has pretty much always failed at their basic civic duties. It’s just that it’s now very visible now how damaging it is.
The electorate runs on feelings. That’s it. You make em feel good, they’ll let you do anything. Either we take advantage of that, or we don’t. I’ve been supporting moving healthcare and welfare funding responsibilities down to states if we continue down this path of the national electorate constantly voting against more federal spending and taxation.
Yep.
No, let’s blame Democrats for Republicans being Republicans and left wing a-holes for their conscience and principles. /s
After all, it’s impolite to expect people to be responsible. Also, though, why are Democrats too polite all the time? /s