Or at best, just not vote.

"I hate Trump, but it's better than the Demon rats!"

The older I get, the more it becomes apparent that the primary political distinction between people is how many degrees of separation from themselves they care about people. The more you care about people barely connected to you at all, the more progressive you are. The more your scope of concern for people is limited to people in your immediately sphere, the more conservative you are.

It is not always selfishness that sways conservatives. They can care genuinely and deeply for their family, friends, colleagues, and community. But that is typically as far as that scope of concern goes. They can take on more progressive political positions or make limited exceptions when their lifelong regressive politics suddenly negatively affects themselves or those close to them. Their kid comes out as trans, their work friend is black, their community is being spoiled by a corporation, and suddenly they are a progressive ally on those things alone. But what they care about will still be limited to those in their bubble. They will not care that their politics has the same effect on someone else's family until it happens to their's. It's a genuine character flaw. They are incapable of general altruism.

Plus goldfish memory ensures it won't stick

Well yes, but at this point the percentage of people he has not impacted directly is tiny. So indeed losing the room.

Which is why "losing the room" isn't really true. Each MAGA is in their own sound proofed room by themselves.

I think the issue is a lot of my feller Americans are really fucking stupid. And that’s saying a lot coming from a 15 year IV drug user. 6 years sober. But still if I seem to be smarter then most Americans we seriously have an issue wrong with our society. My brain and body are fried.

Browsing around different forums, I have read some of what they think, and they legitimately believe that he as accomplished a lot by "protecting the culture" and deporting immigrants. But there's a lot of complaining about everything else and general dissatisfaction from what I can tell.

Basically they are racists and they are glad about the racist things he's accomplished.

Well you see the other person was a woman and they are emotionally unstable. Not like the manly Trump.

Trump hates the same people his voters do?

The Libs got stuck.

I didn't think the leopard would eat my face!

What do you mean? He cares deeply for those people who give him lots of money 🤡

Thats true to varying extents for virtually everyone.

When you're broke and can't afford to take a week off of work because it could mean ending up homeless you're a lot less likely to go spend a lot of time protesting an innocent stranger being shot dead in the street than if that innocent person had been your brother.

For context Germany (Merz) isnt a 2 Party-System. Basically we have 4 Major ones currently (afd, spd, cdu, green) and a few minor ones (left, left but pro russia, libs). With the major ones usually getting double digits % and the minor ones barely make it over 5% which is the baseline to participate in parliament. There are also very small parties listed as "misc" getting 10-20 of votes but not participating in parliament. Imo this 5% barrier and ignoring 20% of votes is a problem.

Anyhow, if the votes concluded its normal that multiple parties form alliances and agree which policies they want to implement to get over the 50% threshold. Mostly dropping anything the voters wanted and implementing stuff rich people want under the blanket of "finding compromises".

While 14% is really bad it's also just harder to get everyone behind you in such a plural political scene. Also Merz said stuff to insult about any worker. But the policies are particularly bad for workers yet the (self attributed) workers party SPD agreed to these policies. So Merz is problematic but it's 2 whole parties that are problematic and outright lie during elections.

What y'all need is Count Binface!

Do these mean anything compared between countries?

Honestly I don't think it's relevant how shitty a person Joebob McCowfucker is. It's still good that he's not supporting trump any more. Shitheads can't do as much damage when they aren't banding together.

I occasionally lurk on patriots.win, and the comments over there have become more skeptical, and now include some laments that their kids have stopped supporting Trump. I don't see any of them flipping to vote Dem the next election, but I have some optimism they will stay home and not vote at all.

Yes they just need to press Ctrl+Z.

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Inflation rising rapidly is starting to affect them but for most their racism is still winning out

Posts like this were popular when Trump lost, but look at where we are now. His supporters will hop right back on again and again.

Not trump golf club rich apparently. They are the new middle class hehe.

Rich people are terrified of the faucet being turned off.

There's a whole other category of rich these days. Most Ranchers still have to rent their private jets.

"Rich" means your money works for you.

It's pretty sad it's essentially a cult now with all the same tactics. Leaving the cult means leaving behind fox news and conservative media which tells you no, you are smarter than them, you get it. Trump is saving you and America. I can't even blame most of them because it's emotionally stunted immature lonely people, it's just sad.