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[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

It's the universe where enough people didn't vote. If everyone who says stuff like this voted, we wouldn't have had Donald Trump as president the first time.

People are incredibly rational. We can put people on the moon and send rovers to Mars. We are working on fusion reactors and quantum computers. Humanity is really good at rationality. People are really uniformed and lack critical thinking skills. Those things have to be learned.

MAGA supporters think they are acting in their own self-interest. They lack true information and the critical thinking skills to challenge the false information that they've been given. Given that they have been misled they then act in a rational way to their own destruction. Trump's supporters think he's going to make America great again. So they vote for him. They don't check their zip code. They don't check the polls. They are convinced that a second Trump presidency is in their own self-interest. So they do the rational thing of showing up and voting for him.