A self-confessed ’MAGA junkie’ from a red-voting city devastated by Department of Government Efficiency firings has said she regrets voting for Donald Trump.

    • Hanrahan
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      13 months ago

      And they’re a majority of white woman? Wtf?

      I am aapaled by guys voting for Trump but women voting for him fries my tiny fucking mind.

      • @alphabethunter@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        One way to look at it is that these women are so used to being abused, to the point that oppression is deeply ingrained in their minds as just “the way it’s supposed to be”. Another way to look at it is that there are people out there who truly enjoy being submissive, and who truly think that being seen as lesser is all well and good. Truth is probably somewhere in between. However, It’s a really dangerous tightrope to walk about saying that a huge majority of grown adults can’t make decisions for themselves because they are literally incapable of choosing the best for themselves due to cultural manipulation. It basically debunks democracy as we know it. It makes it really hard to defend democracy when you can’t fully trust the ability to make informed and educated decisions of the majority of your population, so we pretend that it’s a non-issue and simply don’t talk about it.

        • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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          13 months ago

          However, It’s a really dangerous tightrope to walk about saying that a huge majority of grown adults can’t make decisions for themselves because they are literally incapable of choosing the best for themselves due to cultural manipulation. It basically debunks democracy as we know it.

          Democracy depends on an educated citizenry.

    • @Zink@programming.dev
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      13 months ago

      The most generous explanation I can come up with is that many of them are ignorant and have been told all their life that white christian republicans are the good people and are THEIR people.

      And many of them are just dumb mean conservatives the same as the men voting against their own interests.