politics

I've seen some of Blue MAGA begging for George W Bush to endorse Harris. wtf.

A) Has Biden markedly improved your day to day life or indicated a massive amount of progressive changes to the system?

B) Is the system likely to radically change away from corporate control/lobbying and towards a strong government agenda any time soon?

If you answered no to both these questions, you should understand why people want Trump in. He represents radical change, a concentration of government power in the executive branch. Sweeping changes under the guise of helping "real Americans" and harming the usual scapegoats (immigrants, gangs, socialists).

That's the thing; Harris has played towards a center that is greatly weakened/absent in times of political division (she's not selling herself as being a progressive change, like for instance Obama did with his HOPE campaign).

Where as Trump has played to the far-right, which is actually present and there in divided times like this.

You have to play to the side that's there if you want enthusiasm.

Harris didn't play towards progressives who want change (Bernie Sanders crowd). So they're only voting to prevent Trump's fascism, not because they actively expect sweeping progress from Harris (who champions establishment causes like border control and Israel).

She hasn't escaped Biden and the status-quo corporate grind. Trump has escaped his conscience about appearing centrist. Division serves him, counts against her, because she's playing to the absent center, where he's not.

Or... it really is THAT close of a race. When we shrug it off as "the media just wants a race" we get complacent.

www.vote.gov make sure you're registered and double check even if you think you already are. Early voting is happening in some states. Get active

Everything is fear based and not rationale.

Trump voters fear immigrants; Fear their guns, religion and identity are somehow being taken away. They fear and refuse to understand the world is constantly changing and that we need to adapt along with it.

Harris voters (rightly) fear trump and all the bigotry, racism, and misogyny he has enabled and emboldened.

Most of the American people don’t have something to vote for, only something to vote against. The ruling class is further detached for the working class by stoking culture wars gaslighting on the socioeconomic disparage

They want Trump in because he represents an amoral outsider. Someone who is disenfranchised by the moralisms of the establishment left.

This is how they see themselves.

They like him because he's a shithead who doesn't care to preserve this system. They want change even if it's bad.

In this way pointing out that he's a shithead and a risk to democracy - helps him.

Unfortunately it's the Harris campaign's only option, as the alternative is to say: He's actually a highly connected establishment figure who will pull the same establishment shit we do. This would have obviously blow back for an establishment figure.

They want Trump BECAUSE he's a train wreck.

Rationality has nothing to do with it.

Just like always.