It literally doesn't matter, unless people go out and vote. Seriously, if you don't vote, you deserve 4 more years of that loser.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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I don't think "not voting" should lead to what trumpers will do to this country. BUT, voting is easy enough that if they really care they better make the little effort it takes.
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I don't think GOP voters really care about policy at this point. They have voted against their own interests all the time. I've seen it 1st hand working at the SNAP office in my state. People voting/worshiping guys like DeSantis while he makes it harder for them to get food or help.
The phrase I've heard in the past is a Republican would eat shit if it meant a liberal would have to smell their breath.
These people hate Dems and liberals so much they'll vote for the most vile people. They just don't care as long as a Dem isn't in power.
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40 percent of voters said that Trump’s policies had helped them personally, while just 18 percent said the same of Biden.
One significant change I've noticed from Biden's policies in my daily life is the capping of overdraft fees. Previously, having a negative balance was a financial emergency as I had to borrow money from friends to avoid hefty $30 fees while waiting for my income check to clear.
The biggest campaign disaster is not touting the monumental investments in infrastructure. You almost certainly have a water line replacement, lead service line replacement, or bridge reconstruction project in your town funded by Biden.
"Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant."
That if is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
What blows my mind is how many people these poles seem to say think that Donald Trump's economic policies are so great. The fact is that he, in four short years, undid nearly all of the economic growth that Obama built on for eight full years. And that was before he mishandled the pandemic so unfathomably badly that our country is still recovering from it four years later.
It is just mind boggling that there are people, that aren't a part of his moronic base, who see him as anything but a buffoon.
Edit: formatting and clarification.
The economy is a really easy target for someone to point to to claim a president is doing well or poorly. Really whenever someone makes a claim about "the economy" in general without specifying which metrics they're talking about and why those are relevant, they're full of it and just using it to make the list of pros or cons longer.
I'm still in my 20s and I'm more or less a layman as far as economics go. Ever since I started paying attention to politics, the economy has simultaneously been doing extremely well and poorly depending on who you ask, and they can use a whole mess of different metrics to explain why they're right. Meanwhile the only thing I really notice is the price of gas, groceries, or rent.
It seems that we live in two different economies: a good one for people that support the president, and a bad one for those that don't.
I think it's a whole lot simpler than that.
Trumps presidency was 80% pre-covid, and entirely pre-inflation. Bidens was all covid, all inflation that saw the average person lose 20-30% of their pay.
This is how stupid and simplistic the average voter is, and it's why conservative propaganda works so well. Their feelings don't care about facts.
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The people still supporting Trump, by and large, live in an entirely different reality than the rest of us. Even among Republicans, the belief that Biden actually won the last election or that Trump has done anything wrong is strongly correlated with Fox News viewership.
Brainwashed from birth
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