Comment by rtp4me
7 days ago
And honestly, you should have been downvoted for calling them "low-information" voters. Not only is it condescending, you simply discounted them for being part of the "other" party. Perhaps they are very informed - maybe much more than you regarding the deficit, the economy, their frustrations, etc.
It is great to have a spirited debate, but to call people derogatory names simply because they don't share your viewpoint is the wrong path to take.
Anyone who isn't afraid of woke can see certain voters were demonstrably taken in by transparent demagoguery. There are consequences to actions and beliefs, criticism can happen, people are sometimes wrong and we can acknowledge that without pearl-clutching. "Low information" is specific and actionable, unlike "stupid". Sometimes one decision was better than the other and we can only progress by understanding that, despite any hurt feelings. Sorry, no participation trophies today!
> Anyone who isn't afraid of woke can see certain voters were demonstrably taken in by transparent demagoguery.
How is this different than the decision-making process of many Democrat voters? Trying to make any rational arguments on "certain issues" gets you labelled as a fascist, racist, bigot or all of this (and more) at the same time. There's nothing rational about this kind of approach.
It seems to me that the left has become lazy and often assumes that something must be rational because they believe it.
There is no popular left in the US, we have a center-right neoliberal party who rat-fuck all competition to the point their base has given up.
The corporate owners of social and news media pick the issues they want people to talk about and it is never anything I think is particularly compelling. Why do we care about a tiny fraction of a fraction of the US population's preferred pronouns again? Because nobody has to spend any money to fix that, unlike actually important things like environmental collapse.
I think it is foolish to think that just because it was easy to tear something down, it will be easy to build it back up.
People are pissed off about the tanking economy and the brain-dead tariff approach, even though Trump said he was going to do this.
We know what tariffs do, it has been proven over and over again. What conclusion am I supposed to come to, after witnessing the predictable clown-show since January? We lost 5% today.