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Yeah. I’m also not American and can’t understand how anybody would even consider voting for Trump. Is half of the US in a cult? And I’m Polish so I’m also concerned by the consequences of electing Trump.
It kinda is a cult, yeah. White supremacy combined with “fundamentalist” (but not theologically sound) religion has been our main problem from the beginning.
In the aftermath of the Civil War, we had the chance to hang a lot of the people who were perpetuating the religion of white supremacy, but we didn’t do that and are paying for it now.
Suppose you take a very superficial view of the U.S. without thinking too hard, and consider COVID to be either an exception or a conspiracy. Under Trump the economy seemed to be doing well, wages were up, inflation a nonissue, unemployment down, illegal immigration wasn’t often in the news, no war in Ukraine or Israel, Afghanistan had not collapsed, abortion was a nonissue, etc. Under Biden, constant news about illegal immigration waves, two wars, high inflation, abortion, etc.
Of course that ignores other issues, a lot of the “Trump economy” was actually the afterglow of the “Obama economy”, and if we give Trump a pass on COVID we should do the same for Biden and the economic shock that lead to inflation. Trump would not have supported Ukraine and layed the ground work for both the abortion and Afghanistan issues, etc.
But, keep in mind, half of Americans are below average and take whatever media they consume at face value, a lot of which is Fox News.
What kind of media were you consuming in US? I am in norway and even over here there was day in and day out of the latest insane thing trump had did or said the last 24h with video of some speach where some minority or the other got rights removed. Or some executive order that was right out of the ss handbook. Or kissing ass with some authorative dictator.
It was a 4 year of constantly feeling sorry for americans. And hoping the bottom was reached. But he allways managed to do something worse the next day.
I think we got a taste of the 24h news cycle in us and it was exhausting.It is exhausting and you’re not wrong. Every. Single. Day. Another news story about something utterly and completely pants on head that Mango Mussolini tweeted/said/did. Can we please just not this time?
The other half can’t understand how anybody would even consider voting for Kamala. At the end of the day it’s tribal politics.
