(December 7, 2024 at 2:30 am)Belacqua Wrote:(December 7, 2024 at 1:57 am)AFTT47 Wrote: But yet, there is the current internet rising massively in favor of the assassin who wasted the evil CEO. I don't get it. It doesn't square with the election results - at least not in a way I can make sense of.
It makes sense if you think about many people's perception of Trump vs. the Democrats.
NOTE: I am not saying that people's perception of him is correct. I am not a fan of Trump. I did not vote for Trump. I am not excusing him. I am DESCRIBING what other people say.
Both parties work for the corporations. The US is not a democracy in the sense that the will of the people makes any difference.
https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf
Until recently, the Democrats might hold up shiny objects to get people to vote for them -- reasonable health insurance, that kind of thing. But it's been obvious for a while now that they're not serious. Early in Obama's term he had Dem majorities in both the House and Senate. He had won partly because he said he'd do something about health care. He didn't try to institute single payer, he went with Mitt Romney's plan which is better than nothing but still enriches insurance companies more than it guarantees care for citizens.
Hillary is on video saying "Single payer will never happen."
In the election just past, Harris didn't even bother with promises. She was clearly chosen by the elite to serve their interests. That's why old-fashioned mainstream Republicans, like Dick Cheney, endorsed her. She serves the same masters.
Trump enrages these old-fashioned Republicans because he may not serve the corporations obediently enough. In fact it's almost certain that he'll end up doing the corporations' bidding, but that's not how he talks on the campaign trail. Many people were persuaded that he will be something other than business as usual, that he will break the monopolies that rich people have over government policy. (And I'm sure everyone else here will be more than willing to explain why that perception is false.)
Though better-informed people will disagree, voting for Trump, for many people, had the same emotional punch as shooting a CEO. It's about sticking it to the Establishment. It's about doing something transgressive to show that you've had enough with business as usual.
In US elections, perceptions are more important than fact, and that's what many people perceived.
*Bravo*
Head on nail.
