These guys need to get the fuck out of here with this rude awakening and economic anxiety bullshit. I don’t really want to hear about any soft peddling of these obvious racist/sexist/other hateful driven motivation voters. Last time The Fanta Menace won, there were all these articles about low income voters (of which I’m one, but I had the good sense not to vote for a flaming pile of garbage) voting for him because of “economic anxiety” and not that he appealed to their base desires to hurt any non straight, white, or male group they didn’t like.
This isn’t our first rodeo with this fat piece of shit. We all saw what he did before. How can you be “rudely awakened” when you vote for someone whose behavior you’re fully aware of? They saw what happened last time and his main campaign promise was, “More of that, but cranked up to 11.” Fuck that noise. They are getting exactly what they voted for, with full knowledge of the outcome. Unfortunately, the rest of us are also getting that and it’s gonna be bad.
The article talks about him playing favorites, which of course he will, but I think they give him too much credit when it comes to sparing his supporters. He didn’t have any problems breaking up families of his supporters last time when one or more of them was undocumented and got swept up in an ICE raid. He’ll do what he wants, tempered only by what his handlers want, and that means some notable percentage of his supporters are gonna see some negative effects… Which is exactly what happened last time. They were all shocked Pikachu face then, and amazingly we’re now supposed to what, feel bad about them learning nothing and being shocked Pikachu face again after they put themselves in the same situation again? The hell with that.
We had plenty of evidence from the first time Trump was elected that showed a massive amount of his base actually wasn’t dirt poor voting against their own interests, but actually relatively well-to-do. I think the “dirt poor” thing about Trump voters is a convenient lie liberals tell themselves to make themselves feel better than these people.
Every shitty boss and middle manager I’ve ever had was conservative. They’ve always made way more money than me while doing fucking hardly anything I wasn’t capable of doing.
Every time you saw one of those MAGA freaks complaining about the cost of food, and looked at photos of their actual grocery carts, it’s like these people had never considered the cost of food before. All of it’s high-end food that they’re bitching about being expensive.
It’s time to stop lying to ourselves about it. A significant portion of Trump voters are middle manager fuckheads who already have control over other people’s lives and like it that way. They’re firmly voting in their interests when their interests are “I get to abuse my employees and it makes me feel like a big man.”
You’re absolutely right. While he’s got a sizable chunk of lower income people voting for him, he’s also got a huge amount of people with money or privilege voting for him so that they can continue to be shitty to other people. A disturbingly large segment of the country wants this, regardless of class or economic status. And some of them when they inevitably get, I won’t feel bad for them at all. I’ll reserve that for the rest of us, who tried to make things better for everyone.
