Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return

henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just one question.

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  • xtr0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We’re pretty dumb and ignorant. Our education system is awful and incredibly inequitable (funded by local property tax so only nice areas have adequately funded schools). I recently read that like half the country reads below a 6th grade level. And we have an overwhelming level of right wing disinformation coming from “news” outlets like FOX, OAN, etc.

    Even with all that, about 1/3 of the country loves Trump like he’s a god, 1/3 hates him like he’s the devil and 1/3 is completely tuned out of politics. Shit is about to get real bad here and no one will be able to ignore the economic disaster so I think those numbers will change in the next few months.

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    • lemmyseikai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Half of adults reat at or below the 6th grade level.

      That doesn’t mean they don’t have an expansive vocabulary, it means they can infer but not abstract.

      So, it’s bad if my daughter suffers they may ibfer from their own suffering, but women in general and possibly ways their daughter may suffer elude them.

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  • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    • voter apathy
    • he didn’t win by as many votes as the largest election against him (2020)
    • he was never popular among all people, but is among voting people
    • electoral college doesn’t make sense

    We have a broken election system here in the states, but not a popular president.

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    • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And what passes for the lefty party ran with genocide on their back and couldnt pull that off.

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      • PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The Democratic Party is at best center-right but with their enablement of genocide and crack down on protesters they are probably just as fascist as Republicans.

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      • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And the voters who support Palestine sure did a good job keeping the worst of two options out.

        Ohhh well, at this rate the Palestinian question, likely won’t be an issue next election.

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  • mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean… As an American, that’s certainly a valid question. The short answer is that the modern American political two-party system has become the biggest shitshow in American history. For a longer explanation, I saw a video on a Canadian PeerTube instance that really explains the situation better than I could.

    Here you go.

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  • takeda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    electiontruthalliance.org

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Simple answer is that the majority of Americans still either completely agree with him, or they just hate the Dems so badly they’d vote for a potato before they vote for anyone with a D next to their name.

    That or we continue entertaining the January 6 type of fantasy where we believe the entire thing was rigged.

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    • ReputedlyDeplorable@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think it was both and the apathy of American voters who didn’t agree.

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think most people don’t realize they are mad about the repercussions of a somewhat “unchecked” capitalist system and point the blame (rightfully) at “insiders” and “elites” who they believe are enriching themselves at our expense. The Reich wing media also works wonders at directing “class conflict” into “social conflict” blaming immigrants and people who aren’t the same as them for all of our issues…

    Where they fall flat is voting for the absolute embodiment of capitalist greed and somehow believe that because he isn’t an “insider” that means he gives a shit about them…

    Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

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    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I forget where I read it originally, but I think a lot about “You hate every piece of capitalism but don’t connect the dots to see the big picture”

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