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[–] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    She sounds like a single issue voter.

    Thats really the biggest problem. People not looking at the whole candidate.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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