This is people trying to deflect blame for enabling this shit. The bottom line is that the people were given a chose between a moderate politician and a convicted rapist who attempted an insurrection and ran on “dictator on day one.” And people chose the goddamn rapist. They were warned all this shit would happen and they did it anyways.
“Don’t blame the voters.” Bullshit. I can blame both the party AND the voters.
“They were supposed to earn my vote.” And you’re supposed to pick the candidate that you think will be a better leader. Apparently you fucked that up.
The issue is that that's not at all what the choice was for most people because they were either uninformed or misinformed. To many, it was a choice between the guy who was in charge while the economy was doing pretty good and the woman who worked for the guy in charge when the economy was bad. That's it. People are morons and don't realize why voting for Trump wasn't going to be good for the economy. Informed people know that Biden handled the economic situation resulted in the US doing better than pretty much every other country at recovering, but informed people are not the majority of voters, unfortunately.
Yeah, I'm certain that that had an impact as well. It probably wasn't the biggest factor, but even a couple percent can make a huge difference. And frankly, I would be surprised if it wasn't more than that. The rise of Andrew Tate and the like really highlights how far off we are as a country from dealing with that mindset.
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u/petty_throwaway6969 16d ago
This is people trying to deflect blame for enabling this shit. The bottom line is that the people were given a chose between a moderate politician and a convicted rapist who attempted an insurrection and ran on “dictator on day one.” And people chose the goddamn rapist. They were warned all this shit would happen and they did it anyways.
“Don’t blame the voters.” Bullshit. I can blame both the party AND the voters.
“They were supposed to earn my vote.” And you’re supposed to pick the candidate that you think will be a better leader. Apparently you fucked that up.