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There was particular glee in Trumpās takedown of Vice President Kamala Harris, whose gender and multiracial heritage were relentlessly attacked in the āmanosphere,ā a loose network of misogynistic communities with influence through gaming, social media and other cultural forces.
A network poll shows that 49 percent of men 18 to 29 voted for Trump; the number was 53 percent for men ages 30 to 39, an increase over 2020 results in both categories.
āGender is the story of this election in a lot of ways,ā Miller-Idriss said.
Christian supremacists urged followers to drop to their knees in prayerful gratitude for the defeat of the āDemon-cratsā and for the victory of a man they say will usher in āBible-based governance.ā
Fuck this āit was all about genderā spin. Thatās like 95% Democrat cope. What this election was actually about was liberalismās insistence on doing absolutely fuck-all to materially improve the conditions of the working class.
Not to mention, Kamala kept a higher percentage of bidenās male voters than female.
https://www.datawrapper.de/_/XUI7E/
They lost anyone left of bush. They offered no vision for the future except āyou guys good now? Because weāre doinā more of this with a few republicans in the cabinet! Vote for me?ā
My favorite way to explain this to normies is with a weird thing that Dennyās breakfast joint did years agoā¦
For those I donāt know, by the way, Dennyās is a US crappy breakfast joint that sells two cent pancake breakfasts for five bucks.
Every year Dannyās used to have a āfree breakfastā dayā¦ Where you could come in and they would give you a free breakfast.
Now again, this breakfast is crappy, but itās completely free. And as a result of this, Dennyās all over the US have always had lines out the door of people coming there to get that crappy free breakfast.
Do you know why the line was around the corner?
Because people like simple good things like a free meal, no strings attached or special actions needed.
Now ask yourself this :
Would Dennyās have near as many people show up if they offered a means-tested 70% off reusable coupon that actually had unlimited uses and ultimately saved you more?
Or a mail-in rebate that only worked during a certain day of the week, or if they said āhey Dennyās customer! you better come to Dennyās on Tuesday because theyāre going to otherwise get rid of free breakfast day later this year.ā
The answer is no.
Itās stupid and sucks and is counterintuitive and even if the coupon had infinite uses, less people show up than would just for āfree breakfast.ā
People are dumb and their needs should be directly and fully resolved, not simply just gestured toward or only marginally addressed.
And so - just like if you tell them āyouāre gonna lose the access to bodily autonomyā or āthe ACAā or anything elseā¦ People donāt show upā¦ At least not enough of them will.
See, generally no one cares when you tell them theyāre going to lose somethingā¦ they show up when you OFFER them something simple and that ACTUALLY improves their lives in a measurable material tangible easily-connected straight-line way.
Anyone posting here keeps up with the news and is well aware of every single policy proposal that each party has and their recordsā¦
ā¦BUT 10 GODDAMN MILLION LESS PEOPLE VOTED this time and - as stupid as they are - it wasnāt third-party votersā fault (because even if every 3rd party vote auto-went to Harris it wouldnāt have been enough for her to win) and the š didnāt get more votes than he did last time.
Yes, racism, sexism, etc. plays a role but inflation outpaced wage growth and there are people who remember getting a COVID check when Trump was president and the check stopped when Biden was president.
These people are unreachable with platitudes and telling them that āthings are betterā seems like gaslighting to them when they seem to not be able to afford as much, and they havenāt gotten a raise that even comes close to making up the difference.
It doesnāt matter who is actually at fault - they just know who is in charge when it was hurtingā¦ and unless you tell them, āIām not like the person there now and I am going to fix itā and you make them believe you and you are fully and simply and directly addressing their concerns immediately - Not with a ā70% off Dennyās coupon,ā but with āfree breakfastā kind of simple policies (even if you just lie to them like š does so openly)ā¦ then they will simply (and unfairly) vote for whoever is not ācurrently in chargeā in their minds.