Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them

Legitimate question- do you know any IRL? I am convinced that these people will stand by Trump no matter what. I live in a Trump heavy district and everyone is talking about how hard this is but how it's all actually a genius negotiating tactic. They truly cannot believe that Trump isn't their Savior.
- I still have family in the rural Midwest and the cope is real. There's a handful of people back home that will admit Trump sucks and of the farmers that my family knows, only one regrets their vote, the rest are smoking the copium hard.

Nope, they're still full-on MAGATizing out there. If they realize anything yet, it's only subconsciously and they'll never admit it, even to themselves.
- Narcissists will never admit they're wrong, or apologize.
  "My team no matter what!"

Who cares?
The media is pushing this narrative about "Trump voters" so that liberals will go "FAFO" and jerk off about leopards. The fact remains that most of the people hurt by these policies didn't vote for them.
- I loathe voting for neoliberals. I'm fully aware it's harm reduction and this ship has been sinking under Neoliberals and Fascists since Reagan converted his former opposition to the corpo take into today. I haven't had a candidate to vote for in a general election in my entire life. I'm 40. Yes Ive volunteered in primaries for a better path.
  But I did eat the rancid shit and vote neoliberal every time, because affirmation ribbons you can't eat or live inside are still better than scapegoats. I hated voting for Kerry, Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Harris, but I took my medicine and did it with a funeral dirge in my heart telling myself it's better that less people get hurt than more. The ship has been sinking my entire voting life regardless of party, but it's been crystal clear it sinks faster under fascists than neoliberals. Something something to that starfish it mattered.
  The people that could vote for Harris but didn't can get fucked right along with the Trump voters as far as I'm concerned. My empathy is reserved for people too young to vote and people who voted against this.
  Willful ignorance about your own society and governance is no excuse. "Teehee I'm not political I'm keeping up with the Kardashians/stupid sports GAMES" means you didnt care about anyone else, feel free to diaf.
  
  I've been a Repub since forever, abstained until I realized I was being an asshat and finally voted Harris for the same reasons. Hell, at the end of the day, do I vote for an economics major/ Attorney who supports the judiciary or a literal Nero who wants to make bank while the world burns?
  Can we just go back to politically arguing about a balanced budget? Why does that now seem like an insane position?? I'd like to get off this ride now, plz.
  
  I voted Harris. But at this point, i am thinking that the Democratic Party must be corralled first before trying to take on the republicans. So now i am looking for third party or independent in the future.
- They didn't vote against them either.

Not all of them. Just got off the phone with my dad where he was celebrating the successful effort to curb waste fraud and abuse. apparently this was all bidens fault and thank god we have trump to guide us through to prosperity. now, I just need to put my paycheck into crypto and I’ll be one of the new lords of this coming age..
thank god, was beginning to worry after checking on my 401k…
- Sorry your dad is an idiot.
  
  The Boomers became Republicans when the GOP pretended to be sane, namely Eisenhower. That's what their parents did, and that's what they do. They also grew up in an area that produced males with John Wayne Syndrome: real men never admit fault, never apologize, fight at the drop of a hat like overgrown 15 year old boys, and never show any emotion except for anger and contempt. Empathy is for pinko commies, and women.
  The thing is they've been brainwashed by Fox, Right Wing AM radio, Right Wing news rags. Who know exactly how to pander to, and enrage these people. It's intentional. It's why those propaganda organs exist: to enrage old white people.
  It's not an excuse, but that's what's happened.
  The only way to get through to these people is to fuck with their money, and their embarrassing gay, or interfacial lovin' kids. And even then they'll find a way to blame it on "The Libruls."
  
  says you, but he’ll beat that cancer with the ivermectin, I’m sure of it…
- Your father is a wise man. You should listen to him.
  
  Yes, the music was beautiful to listen to on the Titanic too
  
  I’ll DM you his number, you guys can rule the world together.

This is a great article, more than just bait for "You voted for leopards eating faces and now you're surprised that a leopard ate your face" comments.
There's a great opportunity for Dems here, if they are willing to take it. Point out to the conservative little people that Trump's friends are the rich and powerful and the little conservatives will get nothing and like it. Highlight that Trump is hurting farmers so he and his rich buddies can get a tax cut. Remind them that the GQP doesn't care about people. It only exists to get stupid rich off of everyone's labour.
- There's a great opportunity for Dems here, if they are willing to take it.
  Probably not. Every time the leadership is presented with an opportunity, they choose to do the exact wrong thing.
  
  "Hmm, rise to the moment and present a real alternative? Why, when we can just run a shitty uninspiring candidate and just say 'vote for them or Donald Trump kills everyone?'"
  
  Indeed. Hence my 'if they are willing to take it' bit. They most likely aren't.
  
  If they drop the ball on this extremely easy layup of a messaging task then we gotta really seriously figure out how to replace AT LEAST the Dem leadership
  
  Thanks for saying this. In was about to, but you nailed it perfectly.
  
  I think with current Democrat leadership, yeah they'll fuck it all up.
  
  That's their job. They're the Washington Generals.
- I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. The current DNC is too afraid that they'll scare off the rich donors if they attack Republicans. They're worried about collateral damage if they take pot shots and accidentally hit one of the rich donors.
  Both the GOP and the DNC want to focus on culture war bullshit rather than anything class related because neither wants to do anything that would run counter to the interests of the ultra wealthy.
  
  A lot of those donors are also the ones losing as well. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing. Might as well try.
  
  Got it in stereo, even. Yep. I agree. That's why I put the 'if they are willing to take it' in. They most likely aren't because of what you cited in your reply, though.
- You can't convince ANY Trumper or Independent. I spoke with my ex-husband again about all this last week. He's very wealthy, hates Trump, but hates all democrats too. So he threw his vote away to the 3rd party will be buying more TSLA during the dip. And here is why I'll never talk about politics with him again; he thinks it's a GREAT IDEA that Muskrat is taking a sledgehammer to the government. Doesn't matter that Musk is an unelected foreigner doing major damage to our country. "It's what's needed." Ex-husband said.
  I always believed he was smarter than that, but nope. He's got enough money to ride this out and retire at 55.
  
  Not everyone can be reached, but I don't think no one can be reached either. It just takes the Dems growing a fucking spine, though, which is the harder lift, IMO.
  
  Will probably he doesn’t have his money under a mattress… so I guess he may eventually unretire 🤷‍♂️😂
- There’s a great opportunity for Dems here, if they are willing to take it.
  They can't take it, because they are shackled to the same petty financial cartels and tech oligarchs that delivered Trump the first two times.
  Dems can't break from neoconservative when all their money and their leadership is coming from Bush Era neoconservatives.

Because they are fucking ignorant of how the world works.
- Most people are. You vote based on your vulgar popular impulses, not based on some PhD level insight into market mechanics.
  It is very easy to get people to go against their own best interests with a sufficient degree of propaganda. And the volume of propaganda has been tilted towards fascism for (conservatively speaking) a decade.
  Wall to Wall "Immigrants from gangs affiliated with the CCP are doing a 9/11 every day to your jobs and your white women" coverage for most of a generation is going to shape public perception regardless of how High IQ the audience.
  Garbage in, garbage out.
  
  Thank you.
  Rural people, by and large, aren't stupider people -they just have different experiences with education than urban voters. These are human problems, organizational problems.
  It is true that when the People to Square Mile ratio tilts a certain way you're less likely to encounter opposing viewpoints, which favors conservativism. But these are generalities, nothing more.
  I'm sick of seeing rural America get thrown under the bus by so many publications. A truly democratic America would see the breadbasket for what it is - the bell curve.
  But these GODDAMN FASCISTS have gotten so entrenched in conservative circles over the past century, making it more and more impossible for reasonable Satan-fearing blue-collar Anarchists like me to do our FUCKING JOBS and help them build STRUCTURES THAT WILL HELP THEM... sorry I get a little annoyed
  Where was i?
  
  For sure, I didn't mean ignorant as in stupid, just unaware, not paying attention

It’s the information environment, stupid.
Same conclusion as everyone. If Democrats want to survive, they have got to start pushing these online information siloes shamelessly like Republicans do instead of rambling on about issues, door to door, like it’s 1950. It’s like they’re fighting drones with swords.
It sucks. But if they aren’t going to reign in big tech and literally criminal media, well, they better join the mess they're complicit in.
- online information siloes
  I'm not sure that's possible because the Democratic platform doesn't have the sort of populist appeal that Trump's Republican platform does. Moderation can't compete with extremism in this domain. I suppose that the Democrats could try to pivot to their own (presumably class-based) form of populism but, at least from my point of view, one very strong reason to support the Democrats is because they aren't populist. Having one populist party versus another would be a lose/lose situation.
  I don't have an alternate proposal. It may actually be the case that social media will eventually force every serious political movement to pivot towards populism and create its own truth in order to be competitive, but then who would make the policy decisions in a world of meme warfare?
  
  My proposal is that Democrats start lying.
  Go on Tiktok, claim you're gonna pass a law capping rent at $500/mo.
  Go on MSNBC and say "clearly we can't do that, it will cause severe economic shock, but we'll look at expanding rent control and increasing housing stock"
  There's no consequences anymore. Just tell people what they want to hear. Say crazy populist shit. Have your donors purchase media outlets and juice the algorithm. Have botnets spread misinfo and disinfo. Then when you're in power enact reasonable policy.
  Voters don't like boring, reasonable policy. That's not enough drama. Start saying wild shit.
  
  I don’t have an alternate proposal. It may actually be the case that social media will eventually force every serious political movement to pivot towards populism and create its own truth in order to be competitive, but then who would make the policy decisions in a world of meme warfare?
  Simple, obliterate engagement obsessed social media. Or rein it in.
  Failing that (and it already failed in the US, seeing how we basically crowned Big Tech), well… Two populist parties is better than a monoparty. And maybe a party can get someone "cynical" who will say absolutely anything but, behind closed doors, doesn’t drink so much of their own Kool Aid.

I was at a rally over the weekend. I can assure you that most of them are still quite committed to being taken. At least in my odd little corner of Oregon.
- The rural parts of Oregon are something else. I don't think people realize that blue states just have huge cities to vote blue, not that the entire state is blue. Same with the red states.
  
  One of my favorite stats to pull out in regards to this:
  What states have had the most votes for Trump (2016, 2020, 2024)?
  
  Texas 16,968,991
  California 16,572,025
  Florida 16,396,742


Texas	16,968,991
California	16,572,025
Florida	16,396,742

I better go to Costco and buy as many canned foods as possible huh?
- Dunno about that, but I'm not great at economics. Seems to me that if people outside the country stop buying our food, the prices for that food here should drop pretty dramatically when they try and dump what they've earmarked for export here instead. The farmers are still screwed, but I 'think' we're fine since we're kinda the breadbasket of the world.?
  Coffee and tea on the other hand xD Yeah, we can't grow that.
  
  If current solutions continue, they'll dispose of all the food before they'll consider using it to feed the poor.
  
  The US imports more food then exports, in 2023 imports exceeded exports by $21 billion.
  Edit: I like your optimistic view though. Realistically though you guys are going to go through a very rough time. This is not going to be as simple as well we just won't send it overseas, because you guys rely a lot on imports with Mexico, Canada and China being your top importers of various foods and agricultural products.
  
  You could get a years worth of green coffee beans right now before prices reflect the change. Learn to roast, it can be done cheap.
  
  Are we, though? As far as I can tell from the stats, we're going to have a whole lot of surplus corn and meat, and not much else. And that's assuming we'll be able to feed the livestock, but hopefully we have enough domestic corn and soy to cover ourselves.

slow clap Turns out that they're not all illiterate, so I guess a belated congratulations on their achievement of 8th grade reading comprehension is in order?

I think this is a very important bit:
When we say they’re voting against their interests, I think we have to be very clear. I don’t think when they vote for somebody like Trump, or George W. Bush for that matter or Mitt Romney, they’re voting against many of their social and cultural interests. They may simply apply greater salience or weight to that than they do their ability to cover their health care costs or their ability to limit their co-pays and out-of-pocket expenses or their tax rates or their local industries.
- Definitely important for us to understand and also just insane that that's probably the right conclusion too. They care more about their culture war issues than they do about their health care etc., that is at least until the moment someone comes for them. It's such a depressing failure of imagination that such a wide swath of the voting public fails to realize how bad it could get for them until it actually does.
  
  Also, there was a part of the article that talked about the "us (rural) vs them (city)" mentality. We need to start pointing out that there are a shit ton of rural folk in the city. Cities are our true melting pot and why they're usually very liberal. They are surrounded by the "thems" in the rural boogie man scenario. The city people work with them, talk to them, see them on the street and they are human also.
  The covid portion is going to stick with me awhile too. The rural areas should have had the least amount of deaths during covid and I think that was what Trump was counting on. They aren't on mass transit and don't have to see their neighbor if they don't choose too. They had a natural social distancing. But they were 3 to 4x the death rate. The lack of interaction makes them more racist and that racism made them die more. It's a crazy way to look at it.

The BEST thing the DNC can do Right Now is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING while People Suffer! That way they can Prepare their WINNING CANDIDATE Kamala Harris for a Run in 2028! It's a NO LOSE Solution!