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And they announced it and fully laid out a plan ahead of time. This should come as a surprise to no one who is literate.
It burns my ass that some folks actually bought the whole "Trump doesn't support Project 2025" bullshit. I cannot imagine being such a gullible, credulous moron.
Not just support it, but that he never even heard of it. (Then goes on to say that he doesn't agree with it lol)
Don't worry, they also think that you and I are gullible, credulous morons for believing in things like climate change or racial equality.
America is fundamentally broken
Majority of the population supports it. Anything else is pure cope.
Let's assume you're correct, and you got that fact from an actual survey and statistical analysis that has undergone peer-review. It really doesn't come as a surprise that there are masses of people cheering on policies that work against their own interests.
The American public education system is a disaster that can barely teach basic adulting, let alone critical thinking or identifying untrustworthy reporting. Add in how most of the past century has been nonstop propaganda about how showing compassion to anyone outside your family is socialism, and socialism is communism, and communism is the antichrist. Now, throw in a heaping dose of social media and viral misinformation where the loudest person making the most emotionally reactive claims gets the most attention and positive reinforcement.
It's really no wonder that a majority of people are metaphorically, ritualisticly throwing gasoline onto a tire fire while complaining about the toxic fumes that surround them. They literally lack the skills to know any better.
Keeping in mind it's a majority of the voting population. Millions sat out that didn't in 2020. Millions more don't show up consistently because they've been systematically conditioned into apathy or forced to jump through hoops they can't prepare for like voter id laws or polling stations being shut down. Same issue - they lack the media literacy or just reading comprehension in general at times.
No, the majority of the voting population accepted Trump's lies as truth. That doesn't mean they support what's happening, it means they were credulous enough to believe that it wouldn't happen.
Wallowing in mistruths about your fellow voters may feel good, in a righteous anger sort of way, but it will blind you to the real opportunities for resistance that exist and can be exploited if enough people try.
They want you to be demoralized. Why are you doing their work for them?
Source:
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5213810/2024-presidential-election-popular-vote-trump-kamala-harris
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
Most of the country shifted to support Trump, even in safe blue states most people shifted right:
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5198616/2024-presidential-election-results-republican-shift
I'm sorry but please stop spreading copium misinfo
Google greg palast 2024 election and read his information on voter suppression.
You’re only talking about the votes that were counted. There were millions of people that voted and had their ballots rejected due to right wing shenanigans.
Look up vote challening in Georgia in partcular.
This is "voter fraud" and "stop the count" and "count them all" tier copium. Why do I need to Google some conspiracy theory of yours when I have the facts right here?
Vast majority of Americans supported Project 2025, supported trump and voted for him. Do you have any actual information to dispute these facts?
79 is a vast majority of 340?
No, because that's not how elections work you fucking goal post shifter as I already explained to one of you delulu mfers in the comments.
But this is the whole thing isn't it? You know that. You don't have any allegiance to the truth or honesty or integrity or any actual values, you just happened to be on the side vaguely not actively against those things.
You are exactly the reason why we're in this fucking mess and there's no difference between you and a trump supporter who voted because they thought 2 parts ivermectin per glass of water in the water supply is gonna cure his 5G.
This level of intellectual dishonesty is no different, and just as profoundly anti-enlightenment.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink, and that's why trump won, and will probably stay winning for the foreseeable future.
To them Trump is the resistance dummy
I'm not demoralised, I just don't need copium.
That would be the lie they are pushing. He doesn't "have a mandate" and a minority group of the placrual population votes for this.
Um no. Trump was elected by something like 32% of the population.
That is hardly the majority. It’s a vocal minority of assholes who reliably vote.
It's the majority of the registered voters as demonstrated in my other comment, cheers.
The problem is Trump voters aren’t literate.
And there are a lot of them.