• terranoid ( terranoid@lemmy.cafe ) English
    10·
    28 days ago

    There’s a common type of voter that people don’t really hear about, but it’s a naive voter that makes a really really simple choice.

    Did my life improve in the past 4 years? I’ll vote for the incumbent or their party.

    No? Grrr, other party…

    Some people are legitimately this simple, because they don’t want to try and pretend to understand the deeper issues, and don’t think about the problem any more than that. They hate politics and don’t want to care about it or understand it. They just react to how their life felt in the past few years and ignore mostly everything else, because their direct life experience is the only thing they trust.

    And I’ve brought this up before, and said yeah some people are just that dumb, and someone was like “well what do you expect me to do, vote for the guy who made my life worse?” Literally this type of voter got very vocally upset and announced this was the right way to vote. They exist, and they vote, and they see no problem voting for a fascist as long as their rent went up under a Democrat, and will likely vote for a Democrat because their bills went up under a fascist.

    • tomenzgg ( tomenzgg@midwest.social ) English
      4·
      27 days ago

      I think you’re right to point this out since it can be subtle to notice in the way some voters speak about the decision making (though hard not to spot in “independent” voters, once you’re conscious of it) but you especially see this a lot with Trump voters, particularly those who’re considering voting for someone else (not even necessarily a Democrat).

      They always frame their decision due to how things have changed for them in the last X years but left out is how the policies Trump campaigned on would have alerted you that’s where things would have ended up well before now. I remember Jordan Klepper was interviewing people at a Trump rally and one guy said things were great under Trump; Klepper asked him what he did for a living and the guy said he was a debt collector: he seemed confused as to why Klepper was just laughing at him, after that.

  • pinball_wizard ( pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ) English
    5·
    25 days ago

    Edit: There’s an election coming up. Please get out and vote against the fascists.

    And then - after the election - please read up on the experiences of minorities and why the Democratic party isn’t handily capturing critical votes from oppressed people and non-voters and third party voters. If there’s any chance the current wave of bullshit can be voted away, we owe it to ourselves to try.

    End of edit.

    lol.

    But it would be more honest with a bonus panel where the guy in the left also started pissing on the guy who is trying to decide.

    Not that the guy in the left will eat his kids or anything. Still an easy choice, I guess.

    Edit: Because all politicians tend to act worse than they talk.