• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    people wanted change and decided to vote for Trump once

    What I don’t understand is what that even would mean, substantively. As in actual policies, and not part of the culture war that conservatives are waging against America.

    Change from…what? Things seemed to be getting back on track under Obama after the eight year debacle that was W.

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      The point of a representative democracy is that nobody needs to know every fine detail of politics. They pick a representative to do that for them.

      Then nobody pays any attention, apart from an occasional headline.

      They saw someone being an open piece of shit, and that was a change from the previously diplomatic suits. Change you can believe in!

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, I guess that’s my point - the being an open piece of shit is part of the culture war. It’s not really about any policies, per se, other than those meant to hurt other people.