• Jaderick@lemmy.world
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    Doomerism: These disphits should have never supported him in the first place.

    Hoperism: Time’s arrow marches ever forward and here’s hoping this lesson stick with Americans and brings about meaningful change.

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    Reads article -

    Initial reaction: Doomerism

    Subsequent reaction after some thought and soul-searching: Hoperism

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    These voting demographics are going to become increasingly volatile, probably for the rest of our lives, until you start to see sweeps like the mid 20th century again, but for the opposite reasons ie; voters are so pissed at the party in power that they abandon “the establishment” en mass and vote for the opposition party.

    Unless democracy is truly subverted we might get a decade or 3 of one party Rule, Russia or Hungary style.

    Or if something like 9 11 happens and we have an actually charismatic leader who can rally the country.

    Would need to be a bigger impact though, we are numb after covid.

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        People are deciding they have nothing to lose. They might as well change something. They are wrong, but they can’t see the connection between their vote and losing their Healthcare 14 months later.

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    Nonpaywall link? Also realized my Remove Paywalls add-on on FF is deleted. Shame because that was the only good one I ever had