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I hope that the business owner gets over being dragged online and restarts his political thinking to align with the betterment of him, his family's, and his community's lives.
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I recently watched a video (sorry don’t remember who or what title) interviewing voters in Alaska. Everyone was trying to make the point that they are independent. They voted for Trump but also policies that were more progressive. They could articulate ideas like everyone should earn enough tonest so a higher minimum wage is good. They went through a bunch of such issues where I could not and say yep. And they gave good reasons
But always came back to also voting for Trump. Even when the just had a discussion favoring policies Trump is against. I never heard any justification for it. They’re not independent, they’re brainwashed, they can’t connect the logic
American voters love Democratic, even progressive policies, but hate Democratic (and especially progressive) candidates. It's baffled me for three decades. The only thing I really come up with is that the absolutist, paternalistic, simplistic persona typical of Republican candidates encodes 'leadership' vastly more than the inclusive, empathetic persona of Democrats. As a population, we are bad at identifying leadership.
https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_gutmann_are_we_celebrating_the_wrong_leaders
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I've seen multiple write ups about Trump voters who have had their spouses abducted by ICE and deported. Almost every single one of them say they'd vote for Trump again.
Logic is beyond almost all of them.
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"im independant" is just copium for voters like them, so they dont want to be seen as bad as voting for trump.
I’d love to go mock him in person and watch him rage out like the little magat baby he is
The stupid cock sucker will be back on his knees for trump in a nanosecond.
These subhuman pieces of pig shit fascists are like mindless drones that sporadically, for mere seconds, randomly develop consciousness before drifting back into total compliance with the brain washing.
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Sucks to suck, bud.
That’s how I judge you, not who you voted for.
Lol .. except who you vote for says a lot of things about you. It tells people what your values are.
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