Voters don’t have a clue about how much worse Trump’s second term would be
Voters don’t have a clue about how much worse Trump’s second term would be
Many voters seem fooled that Trump 47 would be a bland replay of Trump 45, not the authoritarian nightmare he actually plans.
This BTW is how you involve in the story the reality of what the voters think, which is an important portion of election coverage, while still upholding your basic journalistic responsibility to communicate to people what's actually going on.
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Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
- I have enough toilet paper
- There are no refrigerator trucks full of corpses
- Nobody has made a serious attempt to overthrow the government this year
Yes, I think I'm better off than I was four years ago.
Don’t forget how Trump expertly healed a nation struggling with racial injustice. Under his watch we had weeks of riots and fires in every major metro area in America.
Elementary school aged children in cages was also a real gem.
Trump 2024: Cages, corpses, and chaos.
Oh, and in respect to that: don't forget that it was Trump's administration that signed off on unmarked federal vans black-bagging protestors in Portland, and Trump himself who had DC Police disperse a protest just so he could take a photo in front of a church, AND that Trump actually wanted to deploy military force against the protests - he explicitly wanted the military to "machine-gun them in the streets" like he's Tsar Alexander.
That sounds like the tag line for a black metal tour
The collective memory of this country could maybe fill a thimble. Jesus Jumping Christ
Huh.. I'm not well off but I wasn't 4 years ago either. Still coasting off the savings I stockpiled from when times were easier and Obama was president though.
Nobody has made a serious attempt to overthrow the government this year
Oh come on. You know that statement isn't going to last through Thanksgiving
I laughed at this comment, but also a half second later think, "unfortunately there's a chance they're right."
It is highly likely that there will be a concerted effort to overthrow the government at election time. The right is actively recruiting people to go and get involved with the election process to make sure the results of the election come out the way they want it to; threats of violence against election workers have already led to a bunch of them quitting because they didn't sign up for that.
Honestly, one of the most patriotic things a young able-bodied person could do right now would be to volunteer to become an election worker. From what I saw when I voted just recently, they're not equipped (nor should it be their responsibility) to handle an influx of people who are ready to threaten them with for-real violence if they don't step aside and let the men with guns dictate what the outcome of the election is going to be.
That's without even considering what people inside the government could do to steal the election (as they already have done in the year 2000, when they had a lot less on-the-ground muscle and popularity than they do now).
Nobody has made a serious attempt to overthrow the government this year
...Yet
Soothsayer: "Beware the Ides of March"
... many moments later
Caesar: "Well, the Ides of March are come..."
Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not gone"Incidentally, the 15th of March, today, is the Ides of March.
I am much less likely to become a corpse myself. That was a genuinely scary period, people going crazy buying TP, minimal food on the shelves, getting stared at (and clerks surreptitiously wiping the grocery conveyor after I used it, but fortunately nothing violent) because I am Asian. And just the not knowing enough about transmission and prevention.
Republicans: but gas was so cheap!
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Has the weird goulash of overwhelming profit-driven chaos that is the modern news media produced in you a vague emotional sense that things are getting better, or worse, since you're too exhausted with simply having to survive in our ever-more-hellish reality to have a second to take stock of where we're at and think back, even if our educational system had equipped you with enough critical-thinking tools to take the question seriously and produce a reasoned response?
- I support Trump so I will say "worse"
- I don't know, maybe better, I just don't know
- Please don't ask me questions, I'm so tired, please can I just have a day to rest or something
Things can always be better, but we are better off now than before, imo at least.
I'd recommend you exit the right-wing media loop - it's well established that it is designed to provoke fear and disgust responses that'll burn you out pretty quickly. It'll also fill your head with the kind of transparent nonsense that would motivate you to vote Trump, but that's a different issue.
I’m not sure that commenter actually supports Trump or if they were using that as an example answer to the question.
Yeah the way I presented my pretend survey was pretty confusing I think. The three bullet points were meant as the three possible answers, by way of explanation of why the polls about "are you better off etc" look the way they do. I am not a Trump supporter, no.
My mistake.