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This is BS.
Every single election we are told that economic hardship is the only thing pay attention to. Sure, many of these rubes will continue to be fooled and are irredeemable. But a shit ton are going to notice and eventually get tired of getting fucked.
I am not saying they will stop voting republicans because they do seem to like the pain, but they would sure as hell eat the current administration
Historically not true. USSR collapsed, Nazi Germany collapsed etc.
And if you think that is true why doesn't every government try "hardships" to keep it's people together? You start from the false idea that this would work...
Their struggle isn't shared thou. Trump supporters are not a monolith, they are composed of a diverse number of groups with different and often competing interests.
Yea they all deal with the same rise in prices, the same lack of services from their government... the same treatment from not racist members of society.
Ok sure the corpos and whatnot who put him in place dont share the struggles, but all the civies who voted for him sure do.
Surely, middle income households are not as effected as those earning minimum wage, just like high income households does not face the same challenges as those of middle income. Yes, all things become more expensive, but only some have to worry about basic sustenance.
It is absolutely shared in the sense that any hardship they face is solely because they voted for Donald Trump. We ran into this last night with my MIL. She thought both the employees at Lowe's and Panda Express were "harassing" her because they somehow knew she was a Trump supporter.
My wife said that people were just having a hard time right now to avoid the conflict and her mom responded that "Oh that must be Trump's fault too" and stormed out of her husband's birthday party lmao.
Trailer Park burnt down? Must be someone who hates that they love Trump. Economy crashing? Must be because they just hate Trump.
It's so fucking annoying.
Sounds like your MIL is in the 2nd stage of grief.
Hardship will just make them blame foreigners
Something about the LiBeRaL dEeP sTaTe keeping him from deporting them fast enough. The "in" group has to be simultaneously strong and helpless, the "out" group weak but somehow paradoxically able to prevent the "strong" leadership from accomplishing anything for the good of the people.
Not if the argument is to offer the democratic party and more neoliberalism as an alternative. Yes, they'll gladly suffer for fascism.
It's our job to offer something better that explains their suffering and alienation. Thankfully this guy named Marx did a pretty good job explaining it.