• pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Not appropriate enough.

    Unironically over 30% of people somehow still voted conservative.

    I’m ashamed to admit a very large amount of them are from my area.

    I don’t know what is wrong with some people. The education system has clearly desperately failed many of the people here though.

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      5 days ago

      I always get nervous when people call other people stupid because they don’t act like them.

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        5 days ago

        Sorry. Naive and easily fooled by propaganda and disinformation that feeds into their bigotry

        My bad ❤️

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      5 days ago

      over 30% of people somehow still voted conservative.

      It’s similar numbers for determined trump supporters. 30-40% of people just seem to enjoy the idea of living under a punishing overload. Maybe it makes them feel safe, or they think of themselves as superior so presume they’ll end up on top. Probably a lot of other drivers as well - poverty and uncertainty seem to play a role.

      I tend to think of this more as a flaw we possess as an organism, something we need social institutions to counteract, rather than as the personal failing of one in every two or three people.

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        Yup. It’s always about a third of people. It never seems to vary. And often they gain power because the country’s electoral system sucks.