• cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    The main thing I’m trying to say is these people historically were blue

    How do you know that? What are you basing that off of?

    I mean, I have an example of what you’re talking about but its the only thing I can think of where I’m like, yeah I know for sure that was the case. And only feel comfortable saying that because there is recorded evidence of someone stating that they use to be a democratic, and then switched to vote for Bush who ran as a republican.

    And as for the alt right stuff - I only feel comfortable saying what I said about that because I spent several years of my early 20’s being really misguided and I was knee deep in that shit.

    Trump talked about running for president since like the 90’s so that was already out there as information. The alt right groups were looking for a “new hitler” as they put it and eventually pushed for Trump. They did this through social engineering. Over the course of several years.

    People laugh when I talk about this but it is a real thing that happened.

    In your perspective, you’re witnessing the disintegration of America.

    It’s been disintegrating for awhile now.

    You can’t just chalk this all up to gullibility.

    I’m not. Both things are at play here.

    If people were having happy stable lives where their needs were being met financially and emotionally, they wouldn’t vote for these proto-fascists

    Again. How do you meet the needs of people who are filled with hatred? I’m genuinely asking since you keep bringing this up.