i was thinking native american genocide and slavery, but yea...there's a lot of shameful bullshit in our history. which makes me want to add (so i will), the GOP is desperately trying to eradicate these events from our history education, while simultaneously accusing people of "trying to erase our history" by removing confederate statues. it's absolutely fucking mind-boggling. and racist bigoted nazi inbred hick maga voters lap it up like hogs at the trough

it's hard to imagine living life being so fucking gullible

when something big happens, for example covid, and you have information sources calling it a "hoax," while other sources are reporting on the daily mounting death toll, and also people you know are dying, AND you choose to side with the sources calling the whole thing "fake news" despite evidence you see with your own eyes, then the problem isn't that you don't have access to good information, the problem is that you're a cultist, and believe what you're told to believe, instead of believing that reality is real

climate change is another in-your-face example

as an aside, one of the first things our shiny new fascist government did upon taking over was to cripple research having to do with covid and climate change. now, why would they do that? because if there's no evidence, then there's no crime. this is that critical thinking piece they're so aggressively removing from the curriculum. and obviously succeeding

You assume these people read what you read, listened to what you listened to. They very likely did not.

I assume that when I told my parents 57 times specific reasons trump was a terrible person and they ignored me that I wasn't hallucinating. I also assume that their comments like "the media treats him so badly" is a result of them watching the news like they have for 40 years but in this case choosing to think that it was suddenly unfair, unlike every other time in history. I assume that when my sibling told me they are marrying a trump supporter after years of claiming to hate trump and care about the future, they did so out of a similar tendency to ignore reality. I don't think trump supporters are innocent. I think they're extremely mentally lazy at best, dogshit people at average, and malicious sociopaths at worst.

Ps. My mom actually had the gall recently to say she didn't know these bad things about trump or that he'd be a bad president. Which even if I hadn't told her myself many times, is not excusable. She is literate and has cable and the Internet. All are things she used to use in order to educate herself to a small degree. Now she wants to feign ignorance when I know for a fact I worked pretty hard to educate her. My late grandfather was the opposite. He said he liked trump but then I told him he had several wives and allegedly raped one of them. At that moment he changed his mind. Pretty fucked up almost no one else can do that, literally regardless of what information is brought to light.

They do have chance to redeem themselves in a few weeks....

we can only hope they learned a little lesson from this colossal disaster they rooted for

All good points but voting for dog shit would have been better. Much better.

True enough.

True to a certain extent. The education system is trash, but knowledge is out there. There is a lack of curiosity coupled with an in overestimating one's intelligence. Boomers are an excellent example of the narcissistic belief they're always wished while gen Z leans more into the lack of curiosity side.

"Education" is not the solution you people think it is. We need to fundamentally change our culture in order to move in a better direction.

Greed, entitlement, consumerism, apathy; all of these need to stop being so socially acceptable and easily fewer than 2% of the people I come across ever mention it.

Candidates with corporate overlord approval are almost always shit.