"But hey! When they’re hungry or finding themselves without any health care, low-income Trump voters can take heart in knowing that they really stuck it to trans people, immigrants, and the concept of “woke” and definitely were not tricked into frothing at the mouth over these things in order to ensure they’d vote for people who would cut all of the programs they rely on in order to fund tax cuts for people too rich to even feel the impact of whatever small amount of taxes they won’t be paying anymore."
Grump voters and their relationship to Fox and conservative media is its own national dumpster fire all Americans, and the rest of the world influenced by our politics, will all now have to resist, dodge, and endure for the next four years. Pointing out the details of how republican voters, or other than the Billionaires, voted against their own interests is necessary but not new or surprising. Just like during the pandemic the redder the location the worse the health outcomes. If conservatives are not getting revenge against their avowed enemies, Dems, liberals, etc, they're cutting off their noses to spite their faces, usually both at the same time. This is how they roll, break stuff and then fall on their own sword. We've seen this movie before and, of course, the second installment is likely to be worse.
But what about everybody else? Apparently, more eligible voters didn't vote than voted for either Grump or Harris. What about women, minorities, Muslim-Americans, families with LGBTQ+ loved ones, young people with college loans, health care workers and/or people who depend on health care services, and, really, any working class wage worker that did not see a clear and present threat to their interests in the election from Grump and the republicans or concluded Grump can't be worse than Biden or America isn't ready for a woman potus or whatthefuckever is a level of civic imbecility bordering on Darwin Awards stuff. Sorry.
After all the postmortem allusions to the election results, and how various groups voted, I'm anxious to see the actual demographic breakdown, which I'm told should be out in February. I'm tired of the gloating about alleged 5-8% shifts in minority populations, women didn't show up, etc.
Anyway, wrapping up my lament, so many eligible voters unable to recognize any important stakes or choice in the election is a crisis in civic education. Or looking at it a different way: to survive democracies have to win popular support, that's it or absolutely requisite to democracies' survival anyway. And nearly 40% of the electorate decided democratic government wasn't worth their vote. What has democracy ever done for me, like that? Biden/Harris or Trump, what's the difference? I care about my community but national politics, Trump and all that, it's like a nightmare horror Hunger Games pro wrestling super grudge match. I'm not into the superhero stuff. Voting is just feeding the beast.
But then amongst engaged voters, trigger warning, Grump won 49.5% to 48.5% over Harris because, testifies a Trump supporter on TV, "Because he knows how to deal with the "illegals" and he's easier on the pocket book." I'm taking this as suggestion that I need to read some more Jonathan Swift.
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