• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    I read that rural voters often feel like the government isn’t for them, they feel disempowered. And in response, they seek to undermine and break the system that disempowers them. They do not look to improve or change the system, they want to destroy it. So when people yell at them for threatening democracy by voting for a lunatic with dictator fantasies, they feel empowered.

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      4 months ago

      I get that for voting, but not for how they gush and fawn over his rambling nonsense like he is the second coming.

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        They are not mutually exclusive. They idolize Trump, in part, because he is the middle finger to everyone who has made a mockery of their existence.

        To them he’s not a man, he is a symbol.