• zante@lemmy.wtf
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    2 months ago

    And yet he was elected to highest office in the land and went very close again 4 years later and will likely go close again.

    So there are plenty of “stupid” people who are “ignorant of reality” and they have vote same as you.

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      2 months ago

      Why do you think Trump became influential? Why did this happen, and how do we not repeat it?

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        2 months ago

        Too many people left behind in hardship in a time of abundance and conspicuous wealth. Easy for Trump to gains support with populist sentiment. Republicans saw their chance, and held their nose a made him leader.

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          The answer is capitalist decay. Fascism isn’t going away even if Trump goes away.