The reality is that you have a LOT of people who are ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of the atrocities that are going on. It’s easy to hate on them, but also recognizing that the majority of people just aren’t that curious or aware of anything outside their little bubble.
They live in an area where Fox is on every TV in every public place talking about how amazing Dear Leader is and think “Well it’s ‘the news’ so I’m staying well informed”, get a little poll on their phone asking if they approve of Trump, and go on with their day.
I don’t say this to justify any of what’s going on, it’s monstrous and disgusting and vile, but it’s also to give at least some hope that your average person isn’t that vile and has merely been lied to their whole lives.
I can’t tell you how much I feared coming out as trans to people and the backlash I’d receive. Even my backwoods cousins Oklahoma who made a post about “voting for Trump to keep trans pedos out of their kids’ bathrooms” right after the election were shockingly accepting and all that rhetoric went away the moment a trans person wasn’t some abstract concept being demonized by Fox/Newsmax/Reichbart, and was an actual person they knew.
The amount of disinformation out there is horrifying, and so it’s really not surprising that there are still people who support him, simply because they truly have no idea what’s actually going on in the world.
Oh, I’m aware of the reality. I just made the mistake of allowing myself some hope that a small number of people that supported him during the last go around were waking up just a little. Seemed like it here and there, but it’s not enough to matter, it seems.
I don’t think that the average person is a frothing MAGAt or anything, I’m just depressed that there are so many people that slurp that shit down without looking around at all. Talked to someone recently who still somehow believes that the Elon Nazi salute debacle was just due to a tricky camera angle.
I’m just exhausted from trying to educate people while watching everything crumble. The majority of us Americans may not be inherently bad, but due to the systematic degradation of our educational system since the days of Reagan we are a lot dumber and less informed than we should be.
I dunno, I guess I see it somewhat from the perspective of there being ways to educate people and make change, whereas if people were “just like that” it’d truly be a lost cause.
40%
Down to 40%
I fuckin hate this place.
The reality is that you have a LOT of people who are ignorant, willfully or otherwise, of the atrocities that are going on. It’s easy to hate on them, but also recognizing that the majority of people just aren’t that curious or aware of anything outside their little bubble.
They live in an area where Fox is on every TV in every public place talking about how amazing Dear Leader is and think “Well it’s ‘the news’ so I’m staying well informed”, get a little poll on their phone asking if they approve of Trump, and go on with their day.
I don’t say this to justify any of what’s going on, it’s monstrous and disgusting and vile, but it’s also to give at least some hope that your average person isn’t that vile and has merely been lied to their whole lives.
I can’t tell you how much I feared coming out as trans to people and the backlash I’d receive. Even my backwoods cousins Oklahoma who made a post about “voting for Trump to keep trans pedos out of their kids’ bathrooms” right after the election were shockingly accepting and all that rhetoric went away the moment a trans person wasn’t some abstract concept being demonized by Fox/Newsmax/Reichbart, and was an actual person they knew.
The amount of disinformation out there is horrifying, and so it’s really not surprising that there are still people who support him, simply because they truly have no idea what’s actually going on in the world.
Oh, I’m aware of the reality. I just made the mistake of allowing myself some hope that a small number of people that supported him during the last go around were waking up just a little. Seemed like it here and there, but it’s not enough to matter, it seems.
I don’t think that the average person is a frothing MAGAt or anything, I’m just depressed that there are so many people that slurp that shit down without looking around at all. Talked to someone recently who still somehow believes that the Elon Nazi salute debacle was just due to a tricky camera angle.
I’m just exhausted from trying to educate people while watching everything crumble. The majority of us Americans may not be inherently bad, but due to the systematic degradation of our educational system since the days of Reagan we are a lot dumber and less informed than we should be.
I dunno, I guess I see it somewhat from the perspective of there being ways to educate people and make change, whereas if people were “just like that” it’d truly be a lost cause.