• FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Then the institutions that are supposed to do the fact checking for you, to solve this problem, are blatantly lying and will tell you that inflation hasn't been that bad when it's essentially impossible for the majority of non-homeowners to ever own a home. So there's no one to trust, and these people perceive the liberals as smarmy condescending douches, so it's not a difficult logical leap to see why they end up voting Trump.

    • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Which is why I wish we had a Trump of the left. Someone who isn't a smarmy douche and comes off like this emoji smuglord