One is Michael Lyras, a 44-year-old American, who lives in Volusia County, near Orlando, in central Florida. Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump “all three times” but says he is upset with the way things are going: “I regret my last vote enormously,” he says.
“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Lyras adds. “He [Trump] is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this”
"He [Trump] is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this”
You did. He said this is what he would do. He says he wanted to do all this the first time he was elected and it was only his non-sycophantic cabinet members that held him back. You didn’t pay attention. You need to accept this and learn from it, because if it’s not already too late to vote again (and it might be), you will need to pay attention and be MUCH more discerning in the future.
Yes you did. This is who he said he would be. You just ignored everyone pointing that out because they were just some derogatory version of liberal to you. People who cared about things like rights, the Constitution, the corruption of the Checks And Balances in our government. But let’s face it, the real reason you care at all is because it’s finally affecting you personally. Your government handouts are on the ropes. Your medicare, medical costs, and food supplies are all hurting you and going to get worse. This would all be fine if people were just being tossed into the backs of unmarked vans by masked “officers”, protesters seeking equal rights were shot at and firehosed, and forests were clearcut for timber, coal, and oil platforms. But now it’s making difficulty for you personally, so you care.
Asshole was fine with everything that addled rapist pedo did, as long as it didn’t hurt him personally…
Lol Michael you’re a fucking idiot, you big dumb bitch.
As your state turns into a wasteland remember who you voted for to lead you there.
“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,”
Oh now he’s concerned about civil rights, now that he’s gonna be losing some weight. Yeah OK bud.
This is just another idiot who doesn’t realize they’re on our side. The country is desperate for progressives, decades of the uniparty convinced most people they don’t exist
… they’re literally too stupid and un self aware to effectively be on anyone’s ‘side’.
This is is the kind of absolute moron ‘median voter’ that the Dems claim they are trying to appeal to, and they claim their method of being appealing to this person is to workshop and focus group develop a perflectly bland, near meaningless corporate marketing campaign that is so very obviously inauthentic.
Spoiler: You don’t effectively message/market to inconsistent idiots with fake intellectualism, you effectively message to them with consistent and easily digested messages that are spoken with genuine conviction, confidence, and a consistent style.
As an example: Compare Mamdani’s campaign to Harris’.
I am so very tried of pretending that the average adult American is not an actual fucking moron who reads and writes and thinks at a 5th to 6th grade level.
They are.
Don’t act like adult idiot children are even capable of having a consistent or coherent worldview that extends beyond their immediate day to day experience.
They’re not, they run on vibes, they’re mostly concerned with being on the side of whatever seems to be popular right now, like middle school friend group dynamics, and they also have the ‘is this person lying to me’ assessment capabilities of a middle schooler who’s always on their phone in school.
Democracy doesn’t work in a nation of uneducated and un/misinformed dolts.
Nearly every prominent historical philosopher/pilitical theorist who ever argued for democracy would also tell you that there must be a significant and effective effort to ensure the masses are capable of critical thinking and are also reasonably well informed.
… A h(y)uge reason that Trump and MAGA are even politically possible in the first place is that so many Americans are just objectively morons… and that is because the Republicans have been for at least 40 years, successfully corrupting and corroding public education.
Why do they do this? Many reasons, but a big one is that morons are easier to lie to and trick, run confidence games on.
What does a non profit do when it wants to try to raise support for a democratic society in an illiberal region?
It funds universal schools and sports clubs, to establish a foundation of learning, curiosity, and in person community involvement.
What do you do to destroy the fundamental basis for democracy?
You ruin and gatekeep and exclusionarily containerize those things.
But they’ll do it again given the chance
He voted for Trump all three times.
I didn’t vote for any of this.
