Political Memes

There is a big difference between voting/supporting them and following them on social media. I encourage everyone, Left as well as Right, to follow people, pages and communities of the other side. You should know the story the other side tells itself. Even if you don't agree with it - it's better to not agree with the real thing than to fight straw men in echo chambers.

Because they're not single issue voters, would be the rational explanation. But probably they also haven't bothered to reasonably research who has what agenda. If you're into politics, it can come as a surprise, but many people really don't want to know anything about it, and they work hard to learn as little as possible.

I'm not blaming them for developing a strong dislike to politics, considering how dirty almost everyone is, but I hope that people can realize that ignoring a thing you don't like doesn't make it go away.

Bootlickers transcend identity politics. They're just looking for a boot.

And they make no secret of it!

Have you tried drugs and not trying to think about it?

That leopard is so overfed it needed to grow additional toes just to cope!

No. They really don't. I was getting some coffee at a drive-up place where they always leave the window open after they take your money, so you can hear them talking. This was maybe a month before the election. One of the workers thought Trump was still the president. They had to tell her who Joe Biden is.

That's a pretty common authoritarian propaganda technique. Like, most Russians do think Putin is bad but they've also bought into the idea that all politicians are bad. They don't realize that most people aren't former KGB agents in bed with the Russian mafia.

Both candidates (in this case a candidate and a former candidate) being bad might be true but it doesn't mean both are equally bad. And it's always "both are bad" never "both are good".

https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-joe-biden-drop-google-025601942.html

Especially when he literally said he's going to be a dictator.

And it's funny, because at the same time they already think the president can do whatever he wants since they think he can control gas and grocery prices.

We all fail somewhere …. I voted wrong on one ballot question, for the vibes, and wish I could take it back.

My state had a question whether the auditor should audit the state legislature, and after so much news about corruption, conflict of interest at the national level, I voted “Hell yes”. However when I read it afterwards, too late, it was a separation of powers question and I would have voted “no, the executive branch can’t police the legislate branch”

It’s mostly a vibes based democracy

I don't get it either. I always try to read up on things. Sometimes there's not enough info on candidates in a local race for me to know who to vote for and so I abstain. Other than that, I always vote for the candidate I think is going to do the least harm. They didn't do their due diligence to even figure that out.

At least from my personal experience, they're all too believable, and I'm sure plenty of others here have similar stories.

A couple of nights after the election I spoke to my father, and he could tell I was quite upset. He told me how I shouldn't worry because Trump was going to make everything better since "Joe and the Ho" hadn't done anything. Not even one or two sentences later he was telling me about how he needed to get all of this medical work done by the end of the year (he is on Medicare), because his Medicare agent told him they expected a good majority of those benefits to be cut next year by the upcoming administration...

Between the many similar stories from other family members and friends, the increased searches for "Project 2025" and "change vote", I really don't think it's a stretch at all for most to accept these as true, because many people are experiencing it firsthand.