Keep religious types out of the Democratic party. They only bring their problematic views and conservative bullshit with them. The party already has enough problems of their own with turncoats, Republican pandering, and kowtowing to rich lobbyists.
This is why TL;DR Bot was a good tool to keep in Lemmy.
Despite all this shit, you still see people defending his long-time supporters like they’re victims and not willing participants. No one who supported Trump after his first term and subsequent failed insurrection should be trusted or sympathized with, ever.
Someone should Photoshop all the arches in the background into Arch logos.
A lot of the propaganda these isolated people are fed dehumanizes those whom Trump and the Republican party wish to target. These “victims” of propaganda shouldn’t be sympathized with or even pitied because they each have a conscience that they deliberately silenced in order to feel as part of something greater than themselves. Even if these people are somehow rehabilitated this time it’s very obvious they’ll fall back to the same patterns that got us into this mess to begin with.
The only effective way to break the cycle is to destroy the propaganda machine and force a change in the very culture and identity they’re a part of. You’re right these people aren’t a monolith, but you see some recurring themes like nationalism, Christianity, pride in ignorance, and toxic individualism that conservatives just know how to leverage to drive them into a frenzy.
It’s great to see socialist mayors win out. Hopefully this inspires more of them to run for Congress and the Senate. We all know a lot of these Democrats are paid to dive on pretty much anything remotely helpful to the average US citizen.
Not some. All. We all got to live through his first term and the failed insurrection with the Jan 6ers. The fact they voted for him a third time is proof they didn’t care about any of that.
Depressing but not undeserved. These people have some less than altruistic reasons for electing the con man.
Old medieval pages look so fascinating. Too bad the letters are so beautifully drawn that I can’t even try reading what each word says.
That’ll teach my fellow Latinos to not vote Republican for this and only this election cycle!