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Even if it was the same, it's certainly not something anyone should aspire to.
The article uses a single black college student who says he might vote for trump, and a single "liberal climate group" poll from a recent New York Times article. So a single student and poll mean that America is not realizing how bad things would be? If that was true there would be far more republicans winning special elections and the house would have swung to a much larger majority for the republicans. The problem lies in the polling and assuming polls are at all accurate. Polls haven't been super accurate for a while. Polls said Biden would be in a dead heat in 2020 but he won a decent victory, far more than the polls expected. The polls said 2018 was gonna be a good year for democrats, which was right, but the polls far underestimated the turn out. In 2016 the polls had Clinton winning over trump but that didn't happen in the states it needed to happen in, despite most of the polls saying it would. In 2022, the polls expected republicans to get over 20 or 30 seats. That didn't happen. Using barely any evidence to show how America isn't understanding whats going on just ignores that the majority definitely understand. Its just that 43-46 percent of voters, who are the most likely ones to respond to polls, will always support trump. We can't base our view on the election just because of polls. Look at the actual elections that democrats usually have been winning where they need to be winning.
Also, it's not that I don't think there are people who don't understand how bad a second Trump term would be, it's just that those are a minority and will get smaller as the election gets closer.
Of course at the end of the day, we just have to vote. Ignore the polls, they're all bullshit, you just gotta vote.
Hey, hey - are you trying to whip up a horserace to drive clicks for your billionaire masters?? Well then let them do their job!
Who the fuck are “voters” and why are they so goddamned stupid
You've got to remember that these are just simple voters. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Because the news misleads them, all the time and constantly
Most people, let alone voters, don't actually watch or read any actual reporting regardless of bias. They get news through content-creators, so it's all bite-sized with all critical thinking removed.
A lot of people also really don't understand how our government/elections work. The war on having an educated populace has been pretty successful in my opinion. Especially in Conservative areas of the country.
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
- I have enough toilet paper
- There are no refrigerator trucks full of corpses
- Nobody has made a serious attempt to overthrow the government this year
Yes, I think I'm better off than I was four years ago.
Nobody has made a serious attempt to overthrow the government this year
...Yet
Don’t forget how Trump expertly healed a nation struggling with racial injustice. Under his watch we had weeks of riots and fires in every major metro area in America.
Elementary school aged children in cages was also a real gem.
Trump 2024: Cages, corpses, and chaos.
That sounds like the tag line for a black metal tour
The collective memory of this country could maybe fill a thimble. Jesus Jumping Christ
Huh.. I'm not well off but I wasn't 4 years ago either. Still coasting off the savings I stockpiled from when times were easier and Obama was president though.
Has the weird goulash of overwhelming profit-driven chaos that is the modern news media produced in you a vague emotional sense that things are getting better, or worse, since you're too exhausted with simply having to survive in our ever-more-hellish reality to have a second to take stock of where we're at and think back, even if our educational system had equipped you with enough critical-thinking tools to take the question seriously and produce a reasoned response?
- I support Trump so I will say "worse"
- I don't know, maybe better, I just don't know
- Please don't ask me questions, I'm so tired, please can I just have a day to rest or something
I'd recommend you exit the right-wing media loop - it's well established that it is designed to provoke fear and disgust responses that'll burn you out pretty quickly. It'll also fill your head with the kind of transparent nonsense that would motivate you to vote Trump, but that's a different issue.
Things can always be better, but we are better off now than before, imo at least.