(April 20, 2025 at 6:14 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote:(April 20, 2025 at 5:45 am)Alan V Wrote: The fact that so many people can't see his barrage against the facts for what it so obviously is points to a huge flaw in human nature.
Does it? So the fact that so many people can* see through his barrage of lies points to something good in human nature? It's not human nature that is to blame for trump I would say but rather ignorance, hatefulness and failures of previous administrations to address very real grievances that people voting for him have. Real grievances like offshoring jobs or feeling that gov does shit for them (which considering the stagnation of federal minimum wage for example seems pretty on point) not some bullshit "deep state". It's mighty convenient to blame human nature when causes of trump success are the same as with other fascists - real inequality and anger rising from it coupled with ignorance and propaganda. trump is nothing extraordinary - his lies aren't any more outrageous than lies of jarosław kaczyński who called Germany a IV Reich and claimed that childbirth rates are low cause young women drink to excess (sadly I don't have appropriate idiom to convey it). I'm afraid that reason for trump seeming so monstrous is an american exceptionalism of beholders when in reality USA is a country like any other and just as capable of sliding into fascism as every other country.
I don't see the solution to many of our problems as political at all, but rather as educational. That's a big part of the reason I am blaming human nature now. Our collective laziness and intellectual dishonesty have caught up with us, just as you said above.
This is also why I am not at all sure that politicians can solve many of our problems for us, though they must of course talk as if they can. Many of them seem to be followers rather than leaders, as Trump has demonstrated. Our real options may be more limited and difficult than we imagine, so of course many people vote for the impossible.
