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Trump Congratulates Leader of English-Speaking Country for His Good English
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Because the clowns running the show weren't willing to even entertain the thought of fixing the deeply broken status quo. When Trump, a political outsider, came and promised to take a sledgehammer to the system he was welcomed with open arms by many of the people who were most hurt by it. Of course Trump is, if anything, an escalation of the worst excesses of the system, but he was still a perfectly positioned straw to people who had nothing to hope for from the status quo. There's simply no equivalent sledgehammer coming from the left, so even people who would be predisposed to progressive politics flock to the only credible attempt to take down the system. What's going to replace it? They don't fucking care; nobody is out there selling the communist utopia so they're flocking to the all-white ethnostate.
PS: To anyone who feels the need to say "but Trump is bad!!!", yes but that's not the point.
So you are telling me that Donald Trump is a credible attempt to take a sledgehammer to the status quo because he is politically retarded and the left doesn't have someone who is politically retarded so that increases the right-wing pull? Like, I'm not even sure if Donald Trump can presently tell you what a tariff is, or the responsibilities of the 3 branches of government. I suppose this is what it looks like when the public votes for dictatorship. Appeal to peoples fear and tribal instincts and apparently the inability to rise above vanishes.
The political retardation isn't necessarily viewed as a bad thing, but that's not the point. Trump is actively, uncompromisingly picking a fight with "them". Draining the swamp, taking on the "deep state," "telling it like it is," et cetera, these things signal change to Trump voters; Trump gives his base the impression of someone who acknowledges that things are bad, promises to fix them and is willing to pick fights with people they despise to make good on that promise. Due to the American Left's parasocial relationship with neoliberals, all major leftwing figures in America hilariously fail number three. Bernie's fight oligarchy rallies that were apparently so significant they kept making national news? To Trump that's just Tuesday. Because apparently that needed repeating: Yes trump is retarded, but that's not the point.
why would putting someone who knows nothing about governance and politics in the most powerful positions in government and politics even be a good thing, or not a bad thing? Like I have aforementioned, appealing to people’s fears and prejudices isn’t something new or special. That’s like saying “there hasn’t been any change so instead of doing research and actually voting differently, I’m going to continue voting for the same 2 parties and continue to expect change. especially if one of them knows fuck-all about what’s going on and how to be a leader.” I disagree. but TL;DR…
MY point and my question to American voters is why they feel that putting a man in a position that he is completely not educated or competent in would be beneficial for anyone?
We already saw this type of behavior with Hitler. Appealing to people’s fears and prejudices. Appealing to people’s tribal instinct of the “U.S. vs them.” dichotomy. it’s not new or special just because his retarded ass does it. And it’s sad that the average American voter seems to be too historically illiterate to see the exact same signs. History truly is doomed to repeat itself.
I don’t even think trump has made good on a single promise yet — from “no new wars”, “affordable groceries”, “no taxes on tips” and yet, even though he basically flat out lied to his supporters faces, they still support him. Why?
It's not, but establishment politicians on the right stuck to certain limits to keep their image as respectable moderates. Trump doesn't give a shit about that, so he could say things like "they're sending us rapists and drug dealers" and promise nonsense like a Muslim ban. The idea nothing new, but he's a clear escalation on that feont.
And my answer is that the people who are educated and competent have done fuckall to make things better, so people who want change now have decisively shifted towards Trump.
Exactly. Hitler appealed to people's fears and prejudices, yes, but he also appealed to their economic uncertainties.
Because he's hurting the people they hate, just like Hitler did. It's the classic fascist playbook; appewl to people's prejudice and economic uncertainty, then keep playing up the former to distract from the latter.
This is so fascinating. People will choose authoritarianism because the dictator will hurt the people they hate even though he has been and will continue to hurt them even moreso. American politics has reached a level of pettiness and childishness that it seems pointless to even engage with it.