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 Originally Posted by Poopadoop
So the question is why do/did people support him? Part of that is gullibility and they are buying his bigly snake oil about how he's their saviour, and I think that's the good news because those people can be brought back.
Most of what I was hearing at the time was "stick it to the man," and "politics as usual has screwed us over."
I'd love it if they see what happens when you put someone who never had a truly patriotic thought in their life in office, but that's not what they're gonna see, and I know it.
Originally Posted by Poopadoop
Another part is some people are jerks and want a surrogate jerk in power. Those people exist in every country.
Unless they're in the electoral college, they do not represent any appreciable %-age of voters (I hope).
Originally Posted by Poopadoop
The solution is to make a country where fewer people are jerks, so you have to ask what makes someone a jerk? There's probably a number of things, but income equality springs to mind.
Gets me right in the feels, man.
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