• theostermanweekend
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    1 year ago

    In the tank for trump is usually about who you hate, not about who you care about.

    • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Right. Find any person or group to blame for your own incompetence and then focus all of your hate on them.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        > Right. Find any person or group to blame for your own incompetence and then focus all of your hate on them.

        It’s not just incompetence. Capitalism is a brutal system. It was going great for average Americans post-WWII because half of Europe was destroyed and America was virtually untouched. Those were boom times.

        Now, when the lie of the American Dream has been exposed, many competent people are struggling. The ones pilled hardest on the idea that America is “special” and “could do no wrong” also struggle to comprehend how this could happen to them. They’re incapable of recognizing that the winners are keeping them down by feeding them culture-war bullshit to stop us from building class solidarity and fighting back. It’s a very effective grift.

        Trump knows the grift. He’s a master at it. He has people who are in financial precarity sending donations to someone who by all appearances shouldn’t need their hard earned money. (Whether his wealth actually matches what he purports it to be is irrelevant here.)