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This is poetry. It perfectly explains the thought process.
I live in a rural part of California where Republicans move to get all the benefits of Democrat policies but get to vote Republicans into office.
Where I live, nothing has changed much since 2008. We've had a Starbucks installed for the highway, some restaurants moved locations, and that's it.
It totally makes sense someone in the desert I live in goes "well Obama didn't fix my area. I'll try trump, he tells me what I wanna hear."
And then trump didn't change anything here either. Some crazies got more proud in their crazy, but things were the same until the pandemic. Even then, we still had to work out same dead end jobs but with a mask to pay rent.
I get why people like a shake up, I get why trump can seen appealing to the white people here. Dead end jobs, can barely afford to live in such a place, and Congress and the white hosue doesn't listen.
But to actively listen to him talk about his plans is madness. Only people who hate others can stand it. And the Democrats lost to a man who didn't string the Nazi's 14 words together.
I wanted Harris, and I didn't expect much to change here either. I've lived here for 20 years against my will and consent, due to life events and shit happening. Nothing changes. I wanted change, Harris couldn't do it, but Trump would have in the worst way.