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no need to write an essay or anything

some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don't know what's serious and what's irony

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[โ€“] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, and i appreciate what you've added here comrade. fidel-salute

Particularly about their retreat into elitism and anti-populism. You see this manifest strongly when theres a disaster in a so-called red state, and all the libs just say they deserve it, as if everyone living there is what they imagine republican voters to be: stupid, lower class, rednecks, whatever libs are calling them these days. They never imagine that the average republican voter and average Trump supporter is petty boug, is as affluent as they are if not more, and of the same class or higher. And those peoole aren't the ones hurt when the grid goes down in Texas. The peoole most likely to be hurt are the people they pay lip service to caring about.

Chapo had it right when they said that the really poor by and large just don't vote. From liberals' perspective that's the same thing as voting Republican in effect, but they don't reflect on being resented for this snobbish disapproval and political entitlement, which costs them elections.