Trump is just a symptom. The Epstein class being allowed to exist outside of prisons + unchecked capitalism is the actual problem.
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For once, an economic catastrophe that is perceived by the average american dipshit as the president's fault is actually the president's fault.
Its too bad the average american dipshit deserves this.
- Most of the World
Article is also available at https://www.siasat.com/most-americans-blame-trump-for-high-prices-as-midterms-approach-3550969/ (arc)
More discussion of the same poll from NORC at https://apnorc.org/projects/most-blame-president-trump-for-higher-prices-and-are-unhappy-with-how-he-is-handling-the-economy/ (arc)
"...and that's why I'll be voting for some different Republicans this November," many of them said, probably.
Of course they do, because he is to blame. Him and every republican
Yiu'd have to be pretty oblivious to think otherwise. Or be a FOX News viewer. (about the sane thing, I guess)
mid-terms are gonna come down to whether there's enough magats who hate the price of fuel and groceries more than they hate 'those people', and vote blue for probably the first time in their lives.
I don't think most of them would ever vote blue. They are too much wrapped in "red vs blue team sports" identity politics. At best, they will simply sit out the election, which would still help.
Red voters vote. Blue voters sit home, smoke dope, whine on Lemmy.
Except that's complete bs. Trump voters are infamous for only showing up when Trump is on the ballot. They should've destroyed the Dems in 2022 but instead they had a very mediocre performance.
This problem is unfixable. Even if we get an entire sweep of Mamdanis in the midterms, it doesn't change the fact that there's still a temporarily dormant critical mass of pig-ignorant shitheads waiting for the next absolutely vile piece of shit to come along so they can vote for them.
That and a whole bunch of lazy voters who come out to vote dem only when shit is completely falling apart and not a second before.
Combine them with the shithead perpetually lazy who never vote and yeah, feels fucked.
lazy voters who … vote dem only when shit is completely falling apart and not a second before
I’ll take them. I’ll welcome them with open arms. I’ve seen with my own eyes Orthodox Jews show up to pro-Palestinian protests en masse wielding the biggest signs and creating phalanxes to shield seated student protestors. I’ve seen obvious suburbanites show up to urban BLM protests in country club pastels to stand as meat shields in front of riot police.
There are groups in the US who stay out of politics completely as a matter of cultural or religious separatism who nevertheless observe from afar and will break their rules to emerge in times of great upheaval and bolster the ranks of those fighting injustice and oppression.
There are Americans of privilege who will accept physical, financial, and social risk on their neighbors’ behalf.
There are Americans who have very little and can’t show up to the fight without risking their livelihood, yet do so anyway.
And yes, there are the lazy, the homebodies, and agoraphobic types who nonetheless quietly turn up to do their part, even if all they can contribute is their presence.
I will always welcome them.
The magats will die on their hill. The lazy 'others' need to be convinced/ bribed/ dragged/ coerced/ threatened out of their apathy. If this shitshow doesn't do it, they deserve the end of civilised life as we know it.
Again.
But will they get off their fat asses and waddle out to vote?

Gas prices will be $2.50 by November and they’ll forget all about this time.
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