• paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I was agreeing with your argument but you seem to come to the opposite conclusion as me.

    These fools already vote against their own interests. They had pensions, union jobs, government funded infrastructure, benefits. They voted to give all of that away and embrace fascism because they were emotionally manipulated to do so. You can give a Truml voter all of the facts you want: climate change, vaccines, immigration, taxes. They aren’t moved by any of that. The people who would be moved by that already know better and never would have supported Trump in the first place. I understand a lot of people here fall into that category, but we must be careful not to fall into an echo chamber and ignore just how dumb and irrational huge swathes of Americans are because that’s how we got into this mess.

    If you want to dislodge Trump’s current supporters, you need to attack their emotions. Bombing thousands of Muslim kids in the middle east doesn’t move the needle, but a dozen or so good white Christian girls who had their precious virginity stolen from them? (I don’t mean to belittle the suffering of the victims, just to illustrate that this appeals to mysoginists and Christian nationalists). That gets clicks, that drives outrage.