Navigating the Vote: Buyer’s Remorse: Gen Z on Trump | Navigator Research
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This Navigating the Vote report covers Gen Z voters who supported President Trump in 2024 but now regret their vote.
  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If you were duped in by the anti-war message after his first term even, I mean, come on. You are pretty slow.

    And really, that can’t be helped. They can vote and drive and buy guns and make families and everything. We know for a fact that there’s a third or so of our population that are absolutely intellectually impaired.

    Then, another large portion are ignorant, they act impulsively and have wishful thinking, even if they’re pretty smart. They just think that they “know” things, while not having the faintest idea… these are usually of the religious variety.

    Another quite significant portion have mental illness that influences their reality, like narcissistic and sociopathic and depressive features.

    Then, another large portion are alcoholics and drug addicts. This is often paired with another feature

    They’re all just walking around and driving cars and on the bus and the train and planes, they are everywhere and any one of them can do anything at any time. Who knows why they voted for who? They don’t even know. it’s amazing that we can make it through the day, really

    • psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Libs again being completely out of touch with reality (and ableist).

      People don’t become uneducated because they’re mentally defective, they become uneducated because schools get underfunded. People don’t just become drug addicts, they get addicted to drugs because of mental illness and the stress that comes from being poor. Religiosity also tends to decrease when people are exposed to more non-religious people and when the need for community is fulfilled by other things. Most people aren’t born with mental illness, they develop it because of their conditions.

      Liberals do nothing to actual help these things then when people inevitably get stop coming to vote for candidates who will both screw them over and some people shift to the other side they blame the voters for being “intellectually impaired,” which conveniently isn’t a problem anyone can solve, just an unchanging fact to divert blame to and sigh over.

      And when you point this out all they do is compare themselves to Republicans and say that they’re better than the alternative. I mean like c’mon, how ridiculous is this gonna get? It’s like a whole playbook on how to never do anything.

        • psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 days ago

          They’re not imaginary, they’re everywhere. Everywhere you look you’ll find people who think politics isn’t about changing things, but about adhering to idealistic moral prescriptions, or people who invert reality and think that ideas are the cause of material conditions, not the other way around: you see it whenever someone uses the concept of punitive justice based on free will and that individuals choosing evil are the root of societal problems while ignoring the material context that creates those people. There are like endless examples of these liberals; liberalism is the dominant ideology that is so prevalent it can pretend to be apoliticalism.