Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.

• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Blue collar workers overwhelmingly bought Reagans plastic coated flag-waving bullshit and started voting against their interests consistently. By the time Fox News and talk radio rolled around they were completely fucking brainwashed. Still are today.

  I don’t see how calling them undereducated buffoons is an argument for or against whether the Democrats have alienated them either way.

  And for the record, they were only too happy to vote for flag waving white Jesus over the future of themselves or the country. They alienated themselves.

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  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Tell me again what the voter turnout percentage was?

    The vast majority of us are so used to our voices not being heard that we don’t even bother voting. It doesn’t change anything.

    You keep talking about how they voted “for” this and that, without even understanding that most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything at all.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure, I’ll do a simple web search for you.

      It was 64%.
      The most since 1908
      So, the “most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything” is incorrect. Most registered voters did (if you’re including infants and the deceased, well that changes the math a little bit).

      And if you didn’t vote, you get what you get. And what you get is chaos and incompetence. Excellent plan, non-voters.

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