Only a quarter of the country actively voted for this.
And among those, I’d bet only a small portion actually understood what they were voting for. There are a lot of unthinking voters who only vote R because that’s what their entire family has always done.
That said, I still put a lot of blame on the apathetic idiots who couldn’t be bothered to get off their ass to vote at all.
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The worse thi gs get and the more people start directly feeling the impacts, the more support you will se for taking action
I don’t disagree, but “action” needs to be funneled into a single action. The United States has this problem, that was engineered, of “guns and trucks” people would rather die than be in the same room with “libs and queers.”
We need fundamental change in thinking—which I doubt is possible.
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Only a quarter of the country actively voted for this.
And among those, I’d bet only a small portion actually understood what they were voting for. There are a lot of unthinking voters who only vote R because that’s what their entire family has always done.
That said, I still put a lot of blame on the apathetic idiots who couldn’t be bothered to get off their ass to vote at all.
.
The worse thi gs get and the more people start directly feeling the impacts, the more support you will se for taking action
I don’t disagree, but “action” needs to be funneled into a single action. The United States has this problem, that was engineered, of “guns and trucks” people would rather die than be in the same room with “libs and queers.”
We need fundamental change in thinking—which I doubt is possible.