• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Really? The majority of young male voters voted Trump. They voted for dogshit and got it, why are they acting like thats not what happened?

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      13 hours ago

      People voted Trump in 2016 because of the same mistrust of the government. They probably keep the narrative.

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        12 hours ago

        When the insurrection happened all I could think was “I dont disagree with insurrection i disagree that they’re doing it for mango mussolini”

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      1 day ago

      What does that have to do with it? The data says young people are unhappy, it doesn’t say they are unhappy about the same things. You’re not considering that other people have differing viewpoints than you. I’m sure for Trump voters, the unhappiness is, from their viewpoint, caused by things “the left” is doing. They aren’t unhappy about things he’s been doing.

      And while liberals and especially leftists might be unhappy with the government now, conservatives have been unhappy with the general move towards progressive policies for decades. They distrusted the government for much longer than Trump has been president, and they don’t see him or his stooges as being a part of that government either.

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        13 hours ago

        If they’re young then they’re probably not politically active past the last two election cycles. My point is that people got what they voted for, to not trust in the system that gives them exactly what they chose is silly if nothing else.

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          4 hours ago

          And my point is that you’ve totally misunderstood their viewpoint. They don’t see Trump as the government, and I would have assumed that the whole “deep state” bullshit would have clued you in to that fact. To them, Trump isn’t part of the government, he’s the one tackling the government as their hero.

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        15 hours ago

        If young people are “losing hope in the state” but happy with Trump, COVID fucked up their brains and development fucking completely