• TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    1/3 are the world-burner outcasts who don’t care or are simply too stupid to understand the longterm consequences of their actions.

    This group concerns me. I saw them in 2016 saying that they were voting for Trump in the hopes that the chaos he brought would change the system. Maybe you could have been fooled once into thinking this, but one would think seeing the result would make people realize that Trump’s chaos wouldn’t bring positive change.

    Unfortunately, I’m now seeing people saying they’ll vote for Trump in 2024 in order to somehow change the Democratic party. A vote for Trump won’t change the Democratic party to make them better, though.

    If Trump gets elected, he’ll target the heads of the Democratic party and imprison them. He might allow the Democrats to continue to exist as an “other” to blame all bad things on. (Why did the economy just crash? It’s those Democrats again!) But Trump won’t allow the Democratic party to be an actual threat to his power, though.

    It will be like opposition parties in Russia. They exist, but if they gain any traction, their leaders are suddenly arrested or have “accidents.”

    Voting for Trump in 2024 won’t mean you get better options from the Democrats in 2028. It would mean you don’t get any options but Vote Trump Again or Prison.

    • lennybird@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Well said. I’ve seen the same. Here’s my hope that diminishing returns means Trump’s rhetoric is losing its power. Here’s hoping that at least this election will be run from the perspective of Trump NOT being in the White House to try to influence the outcome . Now we know the game being played. Now we have investigators watching.

      And here’s the thing: Those who are Trump supporters are and have always been. The cult is saturated while at the same time boomers continue to die off and a new generation is taking over. With Taylor Swift’s push to turn out voter registration for the youth and the good signs coming out of the last midterm no less, I feel eerily-confident we should be able to avert fascism. Especially if economic trends persist (not saying economy is perfect in reality, but by all metrics that Republicans typically hit Obama or Biden on).