One is Michael Lyras, a 44-year-old American, who lives in Volusia County, near Orlando, in central Florida. Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump “all three times” but says he is upset with the way things are going: “I regret my last vote enormously,” he says.
“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Lyras adds. “He [Trump] is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this”
I’d be curious to know what changes he thinks were so necessary.
I mean, yes, there’s a hardcore segment of racist authoritarians that are eager to bring back the worst aspects of the last several centuries. And there are people who watch fox news and see story after story about an invasion of immigrants murdering kids, eating pets, raping our horses and riding off on our women.
But there’s also people who just think that Republicans will cut your taxes and improve the economy while Democrats will raise taxes and hurt the economy. And, God help us, there are people dumb enough to believe that Trump is a beacon of fucking integrity who has only had legal problems because the entire justice system was corrupted by the Biden crime family. More generally, there are people who recognize that Washington is a dumpster fire, and therefore will vote for whoever they perceive to be an outsider (even a current a former president). And then there are people who just vote based on how they feel things are going who literally couldn’t tell you what one candidate or the other is actually going to do (eggs are too expensive, I’m voting for the other guy).
It’s brainwashing, truly. Years and years of corporate money interests and think-tank arguments meant to distract, confuse, and correlate “them” with bad things and “us” with good things. They tried it on the left, too, with less success.
. . . Did you think America before Trump was not in need for radical change?
The country has been a dumpster fire for decades now, change is needed because everyone except the riches quality of life is declining decade on decade.
Even idiots can see that, they just don’t know the solution so voted for the first person to speak to them differently despite their lies.
Building is always harder than destroying, and takes longer. A lot of Biden’s policy (anyone remember the infrastructure bill? Student loan forgiveness?) was a turn in the right direction that really would have made a difference in a decade or so. But was there really a faster way? Was there an approach that could have withstood a toddler in the white house throwing tantrums and knocking things over?
I’m not saying changes aren’t needed. But anyone who is demanding change has some idea of what kind of change they want. Nuclear annihilation would be change, but they probably don’t support that.
Even just the fact that they are upset is evidence that they wanted something more specific than just change. You can’t be disappointed without having some kind of expectations first.
What changes they want are to have enough money to survive and not be lower income like so many Republican voters are.
That doesn’t mean they understand economics or social issues to correctly identify the cause.
Lazy buzzwords, typical.
Republicans just gave tax cuts to billionaires while taking healthcare coverage from 17 million Americans. Democrats opposed that. BUT I GUESS THEY’RE EXACTLY THE SAME.
So you lack reading comprehension as there were zero buzzwords or mention of both sides being the same.