• GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I 100% agree. However, and I hate that I’m saying this… She is correct. Cost of living is, beyond all doubt, the #1 issue for the American working class at this present time. We are feeling personally hurt in our pocketbooks, regardless of the subjective level of empathetic psychological harm we are experiencing, which obviously only applies to the ones who care for their fellow man.

    Truly, if we want them out, it needs to be made very clear that the GOP is not financially in their personal best interests. Selfishness is a far greater motivator to empathy. I may see a starving child, but if I’m starving too? Shit man, I’ve never starved before. Who knows?

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      19 hours ago

      Even that isn’t guaranteed. They’ve voted for racism over their finances before, they can do it again

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        19 hours ago

        Not a one of them believes that. Yes, it’s true, and that was explicitly the reason. But they would swear up and down that they voted for him because of money, not culture wars. A self-selling lie, to be sure, but if you want to understand their reasoning, you need to accept that they do not believe they were/are being self-defeating.

        Again, if they believe, beyond their own ability to ignore it, that Trump os bad for THEIR finances, they’ll drop him. It’s in their selfish nature.

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          It was also very strongly touted to be one of the biggest reasons for the economy being as rough as it is. The brown people are taking your jobs and wasting your tax dollars and murdering your children and eating the dogs… A ton of people voted to get them out to save the economy. The funny thing is a ton of those people are/were the main reason prices aren’t higher. It’s a self own in like 12 different ways.