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we can only hope this is the rock bottom that people need in order to see their way out of the fox news pit of lies.
First time?
I sadly suspect that this is the type of voter who will continue to blame anyone and everyone else for the problems they triggered themselves.
Cognitive dissonance has well and truly set in.
I think fundamentally this is the underlying issue with the current situation in the USA. I'm not sure what fixing it looks like.
This isn't something that started in November last year, it's been brewing for decades, perhaps even longer, it's that right now it's burst out like an infected boil and become visible for the whole planet to see. It's why I used triggered, not caused. I think it's much, much deeper than the latest election.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of people left who don't think like this, but they are losing ground fast as their democracy is demolished bit by bit by the billionaires.
Organising, protesting and actively fighting this appears to be where it's now at.
Helpful link on how to find like minded folk to organize with: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451
Point well made. I would expand your comment to include Western “Democracies” as a whole.
This is nothing new for Americans. This will go on for many more years, it might not change at all until the corpos do it for them.
Even after he loses his farm. Even after his friends and family cut him out of their lives. Even after he goes bankrupt from medical debt.
He will still vote exactly the same as he always does. It's the definition of a conservative: They don't change. Consequences be damned!
HA HA HA
These assholes would be living under a bridge because of GOP policies and they would still blame it on Dems, immigrants and gays.
Fuck them and their primitive ability to understand reality.
I wouldn't bet anything important on it. The lack of empathy endemic to the right means that every voter will have to experience their own life-changing betrayal directly affecting them.
For most of these people, there is no way to convince themselves to dig themselves out, we just have to wait until they keep digging and tunnel to the other side. A better wager would be that's going to take more time than Trump & Musk will need to gut the government and dismantle democracy.
Even then it's not for certain. If their politics is grounded in hatred rather than self-interest they have no reason to stop as long as the outgroups can be punished as well.
You can move self-interest to mutualism more easily than you can move hate to compassion.