• @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    3 days ago

    My sister voted for Trump, only learned after the fact, because of “the inflation” so I asked her how she tough the tariffs would help on that. Her answer? “What do you mean, what are tariffs?” A little too late I send her a youtube video about Tariffs and Trump and she was like wtf. She lives in California, so it’s not like she helped him win, but I’m going to keep a tab on her before elections.

    • This is what the democratic party has to learn. Your sister is a sizable representation of the electorate. They have no goddamn idea how anything works. They voted purely based on vibes. You have to capture the terminally unengaged and uninformed voters if you want to be able to stay in power.

      • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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        52 days ago

        Yup.

        In America you have to lie, or at the very least dangle shiny things in front of idiots, to win an election.

        Sucks, but it’s the truth. Talking about actually policy is out of most fool’s wheelhouses. Gotta appeal to their simple feelings.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      353 days ago

      its low information voters that mostly voted for him besides the incels/joe roegan people.

    • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Ah, because of the famous inflation dial in the US president’s office which Biden kept cranked up for shits and giggles. Well known fact.

      • @tamman2000@lemm.ee
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        22 days ago

        The inflation which was most likely due to Trump’s bungled handling of COVID…

        The attention span of the average voter is short than that of a goldfish.