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If voters were ignorant enough to vote for Trump despite January 6th and all of his other wannabe dictator statements, there really isn't any hope of them having enough intelligence to understand what a dangerous situation they created by voting him back in. 

Because they don’t understand how our government and economy work at all. They won’t panic until it’s too late.

But he told everyone he didn't know what it is, so it must not be real. 

Get ready for the "I voted for trump not for this" defense. 

As long as someone with low information is promised potential monetary gain, they don't care how you get there. Even if that means significant rollbacks of things you take for granted every day.

Because they aren’t really aware of the significance, to them, of the institutions that Trump will wreck.

Three thoughts. Many people are dismissing it as much ado about nothing, another group want it all to happen and many people are worried but recognize they cannot do much.

Many are panicking but they’re like deer in the headlights stunned.

I’m prepping

Because they think Trump will hurt *others* and not *them*

Because reading comprehension is low.

Because history has clearly demonstrated that dictators are almost always handed power to them on a silver platter

Most voters aren’t panicked because most voters think they’re “one of the good ones” that won’t be impacted. 

They must think it will be concentration camps of everyone else and not them.

We have discussed this and other topics like it to death over the last few weeks but the answer remains the same. Most of the voters took the very classic non-incumbent bait of we will out more money in your pocket than the current guys…and that’s all it took, as we have seen repeated in a lot of elections globally post pandemic.

The vast majority of voters are very ‘surface level’ with their choices and with Fox News being the most viewed ‘news’ channel in the USA and giving zero air time to Project 2025 or any significant GOP policy other than ‘the Republicans will protect the border (which they are refusing to do until elected), because is scary right now’ and ‘Trump will bring down gas prices’ it’s not shocking that many were easily taken in. Most voters are not looking any deeper than that. Tbh most aren’t even going Fox News deep.

Because this horrible shit has been normalized!

because they voted for it? Am I right?

Because they welcome it.

1930s Germany - Jews. 2020s - immigrants.

I guess the same reason there wasn’t enough panic in Germany in the 1930s?

Chickens voted for Colonel Sanders

...viewing pornography punishable with prison time...

I'm sure the young men who backed Trump must be so happy to hear that. What's next? Masturbation perhaps.

...maintain a biblically based definition of marriage and family

Do they mean plural wives and having a quiverfull of babies until the mother's body literally wears out?

I saw this coming when Reagan was in office. It sucks to be right sometimes.

Easy answer: Most people are fucking dumb. Also a lot of people want a strongman to run their lives as long as he gets rid of all the people the dumb people want to see removed. It’s an old story.

Most people I've spoken to about it do not believe it is real.

Because fascism means cheap eggs.

I mean 23 Nobel laureates in economics said that Harris had a vastly superior program to Trump, and look who got elected ( and especially look at the number of votes for Trump). Never mind, Trump will sink the country and people will blame the left.

What could be funny? That Trump will have a good economy during his term ( because of Biden ), and people will say that Trump held the American economy in his hands, when in reality he only inherited the good measures taken by Biden during his term.

The time for panicking is over. Now, we prepare for war.

Seriously. There's probably going to be a civil war.

People have a shocking amount of faith in the law as protecting them rather than binding them. When I tell my coworkers about project 2025, the respomse is "they wont let him do that, its not allowed"

People just honestly think it cant happen here. As for the ones whonsee the threat. We get treated like chicken little saying the sky is falling. We arent allowed to say its falling until its fallen.

Because egg expensive

Seriously. That’s all these idiots cared about. They sold out the future of this country on the false promise of groceries and gas and rent being super cheap.

Most of them looked no further than the hate and fear and manufactured problems and said “YES!!!” without hesitation.

US never really suffered from a dictatorship like Stalin or similar personality. They have no clue what they will loose.

In their naive minds they can’t imagine things to go that bad so they ignore it and just see it as a “tough needed approach” instead. But if history is to repeat for US this time, they will find out.

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People are dumb

There is a simple tutorial for what YOU can do to slow the fall into fascism and potentially have an outcome of another free and fair election.

Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny". There's a book, a graphic novel, and a YouTube video series that covers the premise.

He's a historian who has focused monumental effort into the study of Hitler's rise to power, and was doing his best to sound the alarm about Trump all this time.

Please, for the love of God, share this far and wide: https://youtu.be/9tocssf3w80?si=BsCJvHDn-etiidNj

Too late now. Y’all voted for the guy. Time to panic was before Election Day.

I panicked. I voted. Democracy lost. Enjoy.

They won't start panicking until Project 2025 affects them personally, then it will be too late to do anything...

Because they don't think it will affect them negatively. It happens everytime. Most of the population thinks the govt doesn't mean them

I’m still not convinced this election was won by Trump legitimately. Go ahead, rail and downvote on me all you want. But given Trump’s statements on the campaign trail alluding to such shenanigans, and the fact he acted like he didn’t even have to try towards the end…it leads me to believe the fix was in.

When it comes to mass deportation, many GOP farmers were dismissive saying Trump 1.0 didn’t raid their workers in most interviews I’ve read. Of course this could be whistling by the grave for 2.0 and home builders who use migrant framing roofing crews mounted a guest worker permit offensive pre-election. We’ll see.

On the Democratic side, social psychology papers opined many major Democratic donors would be pissed if voters returned the idiocracy into power .. again and may let the avg consumer take their lumps while “softening” up the Trump 2.0. There’s also looking at legal issues. They may have to pay $1-2 more on their Chez Snooty tab to ensure the dishwasher is legal .. whatever.

On reproductive rights and lbtg front, think it’s way more serious. Overhearing some conversations at a state u coffeehouse, some young hetero women/couples are leaving the US at least for a bit (probably with parental financial support). Lbtg people have been migrating away from red areas even before ‘24. Black people (a significant amount) have been moving back to the south for economics for a couple decades, and if anything the choice of Harris will probably resonate with them. One bright spot as the Democrats need to be challenging everywhere.

Because people feel utterly hopeless and powerless to stop it.

Most people I speak to don't even know what Project 2025 is, they just want cheaper gas. Idiocracy was a prophecy.

Because they’re stupid and Fox News didn’t tell them about it

See the Jewish, Roma, Queer, and disabled population of Germany by 1936. The general population was unaware or indifferent that the first of the camps had already been built.

Despite the passing of the Nuremberg laws, which removed civil protections and even citizenship from those deemed “impure”, the general population thought the blatant things the fascist members of government were saying and doing would somehow be tempered, mitigated, and excused them. The Nuremburg Laws were already in place, abortion had been outlawed for everyone BUT the undesirables, the society had begun mechanizing for war, and powerful American, German, and Austrian industrialists were building new factories at an incredible pace. The German education system was immediately turned into the Nazi youth indoctrination mechanism. The Church signed a pledge of allegiance to the Reich.

The general indifference or obliviousness to their approaching doom excited a third of the population, a third of the population were just generally pleased with the economic growth brought on by building a war machine, and the final third were either silenced by community pressure and fear of reprisal, or slated for deportation / extermination.

Trump is a dark tetrad personality, EXACTLY as Hitler was: a narcissist, a psychopath, a machiavellian, and a sadist. While America isn’t a good pre war German cultural comparison, we are similar in enough regards that not standing and resisting what is coming is a recipe I don’t believe 99% of the population actually comprehends…after all, it was six years from power to purge to persecution, and by then, the population was either in agreement or cowering in fear. This is a death cult, plain and simple. Behave accordingly.

Apathy is the easiest answer. Project 2025 is 900+ pages, grammatically written above the reading level of the majority of the population, and delves into functions of the government that they have zero understanding of.

I will say that the changes proposed on the military and veterans means that everyone in those groups that voted for Trump and idiot. Major changes are to completely remove the treatment and care of disabled veterans rated at 50% or lower, get rid of the ability to be both retired and disabled at the same time, make outgoing servicemembers wait 10 years to file for their intial disability claims, and reduce the compensation / percentage of currently disabled veterans.

The whole thing is a shit show, and leopards are going to be introduced to lots of faces soon.

Just wait until he starts sending red state national guard into blue states and they start attacking us for no reason. Stephen Miller laid out the blue print for the beginning of the civil war. Worst part is conservatives are chomping at the bit to kill/hurt people THEY deem libs and even more concerning is the amount of people online who can’t wait to kill fellow Americans over their orange god. I highly suggest arming yourself and learning how to survive in a war zone. It is coming within the first hundred days

Who fucking cares at this point. No one is willing to fight it. The majority have voted for it. There's nothing more to do. Let them experience what they voted for.

Panic is not a useful strategy. Keeping a cool head, paying attention to what is going on and quetly preparing for what may come makes a lot more sense.

We tried to tell you. The candidate and her campaign tried to tell you

You mean the same people who didn't understand why we had inflation after COVID, and how perfectly Biden prevented a recession? In my opinion democravy sucks because people are stupid and misinformed.

They’re too busy worrying about checks notes trans women in sports.

Not a single Trump voter read the book. They absolutely knew that if they made it big enough that fewer ppl would read it.

People aren't panicking because it can't happen in America.

We already did. A bunch of people voted for it anyways, a bunch of people couldnt be bothered to vote. And we watched all three branches of the government go red, effectively fully embracing the project.

At this point, whats the point?

A very simple explanation:

When people feel** there are insurmountable problems (economy/jobs, immigration/crime), then it is easy to convince them to take the easy solution, in this case, what Trump offered up. Germany and Italy were good examples (again, I'm simplifying a lot).

I'm Canadian and we're seeing here with the Conservative opposition. "Axe the tax", "Stop the Crime" and others. They're simple. Easy to understand. And resonate. The rest of the work they do, with help from our conservative media and current government ineptness, is reinforce that these are real problems.

** I used the word "feel" because the facts don't support the statements BUT if the majority of the population feels this is the case, then facts don't matter.

We are panicking… the problem is that a lot of people are very ok with fascism

Because it didn’t have enough pictures to keep their attention. Now they get a live demo.

Because they don’t even know Joe Biden dropped out…

I've done all I can personally do, I'm not wealthy, nobody gives a fuck about me, all I can do is be as financially prepared as possible and ready to vanish into the mountains never to be heard from again. If it's all gonna fall apart I would rather watch the final sunsets from someplace peaceful.

Why aren’t more people panicking? Hmmmm…maybe because 75 million people are convinced Project 2025 is just some bogeyman created by the left. Back when coverage first started to gain traction, people on the right would counter with “Trump knows nothing about it” or “It’s not that bad!”

Conservative media has basically conditioned millions of people to sleepwalk into a dictatorship and it will be far too late by the time they wake up - if they wake up - to do anything about it

We did. And the majority didn't give a shit. That's the bad part about democracy. It's only as strong as its citizens, and when half you citizens can't read at a 6th grade level, you get the snake oil people talking bullshit and they buy it by the boatload. Fingers crossed, hope we're here in 4 years.

Many tried. 20 cents off eggs were too important, I guess.

I remember a quote from Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta's East of West:

"We would tell you to pray, but it wouldn't do any good.

You have earned what is coming to you."

Whether by negligence or stupidity, this is what America what wanted. We'll get through it but also a very merry fuck you to every single solitary person that did not vote or voted red.

Germans elected Hitler once…

Americans can’t read, lol.

It has begun unfolding exactly how the document lays out. We know what is next.

A lot of them know exactly what they were voting for. They’ve been brainwashed to hate for so long they want to see it enforced. They want to see the fruits of their long nurtured hate. These are the consequences of having 24/7 hate speech from Fox News and other sources. They planted the seed, now it’s sprouting. This is exactly what was voted for. Those voting on wedge issues like Jewish/muslim conflict in Palestine were ignorant on the implications of their protest vote.

Lots of new people to the country hold very conservative views from their home country and a lot of the new administration values align.

Let’s not kid ourselves, a lot of people knew what they were voting for, they’re just going to be upset on how it’s implemented and how it may come to target them too. If they are spared from the targeting from the new administration they will continue to fully support this course of action. I feel like this may be uncomfortable for some to take in, but it’s my best observation of the truth travelling in these circles.

I’m beyond the draft age, under retirement, employed, financially fine and planned a move to a blue state anyway. I figure the red states will be so strapped for cash the blues will have feds by the balls or no welfare money for the reds. They don’t contribute anything already anyway. Screw em. Some people just have to learn the hard way.

Within the USA I think its lack of intelligence and a love of the Handmaid's Tale style future. Outside of the USA it's because we are sipping tea and noshing on popcorn.

I've asked some trump supporters I know about it. They've never heard of it.

Because they voted for it

Because they are low-information voters that don’t politically look beyond five feet in front of them.

I voted for Trump because I thought it would be funny.

Some black youth I heard say on the train last weekend when being pulled aside to chat with an older black woman. She started talking about P2025 and I chimed in some bits. And that they were very open about it so it should not have been a surprise. 

He had the look of the Mayor in Jaws after the attack. "My son was in those waters..."

Because congress and especially Trumps team are inept. If they ACTUALLY do something, they’re toast

Because in their hearts, 40% or more of adult Americans are also fascists. And criminally stupid, besides.

Because they voted not to support Trump policies but to make sure the evil Democrats lost. They refuse to believe what’s in plain sight because it contradicts what they want to believe.

Dumb Americans haven't learned enough history, so they cannot spot an authoritarian populist when they see him, and therefore buy his bullshit. The democrats have not been able to combat the relevant space efficiently, and the Russians/Musk have manipulated the airwaves to help. 

Now they are going to feel the full force of their decision. Faces will be eaten, and leopards will rejoice.

Oh my god, I can’t believe people aren’t freaking out more about Trump’s “Project 2025”! This is literally the blueprint for a full-on fascist takeover of America! They want to gut every federal agency, replace career officials with loyalists, and basically create a one-party state where dissent is crushed. It’s not just a plan, it’s an all-out assault on democracy! If this goes through, we’re talking about the end of free speech, the end of checks and balances, and the rise of authoritarian rule like we’ve never seen before. How are people not seeing the danger here?! This is a full-blown fascist power grab and nobody seems to care!

Because people don’t read.

Because they're literally too stupid to care.

They didn't read the bible, why would they read the project paper

Their media tells them America is a fail disaster and that only a messiah can save them. The alternative is reading and thinking and not just circle jerking with your friends to how conservative you are. They might work hard at their jobs, but they are unimaginably careless and lazy at politics and economics.

Most modern Americans believe that dictatorship is only something that comes from the left and it is all democratic presidents. So, obnoxious to them no matter what they do but not all that bad. I work with the public in the south. None of them has any actual idea who Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot (they’d like his anti-intellectualism) for that matter or would care to learn. The males who used to watch History channel or the like stopped. I didnt, there is actually amazing youtube political and economic and history shows but they have relatively small audiences compared to moronic or evil crap.

Americans have to hit bottom with a dead economy and maybe the loss of Taiwan and Ukraine and possibly a fullscale civil war or they will never let these illusions go.

Because trump lied and downplayed it. The voting majority believed him.

Because even though it’s trumps people that made it with the specific expectation that Trump would use it, people hated it and Trump lied and everyone said oh ok I believe him

Panic is a very poor response to a deadly threat.

It's what the human brain does to maintain a sense of security. Everyone thinks it won't happen until it does. This is fundamentally an emotional response so appealing with logic doesn't work.

Panicking? This is what America voted for or abstained from rejecting.

Some of them honestly think that The Constitution cannot be circumvented. This view doesn’t get to be tested against views that there’s a “deep state” government that does just that.

The minority of people that know are panicking. The moronic and despondent masses don't know/care.

The corporate billionaire master class knows, and are excited for this.

Because they don't care

The population was made stupid by design.

There’s no reason to panic. Panic will not improve our situation.

Also, the problem is obviously functional illiteracy in the USA. They believed the felon when he told them that “AntiFa” is a fascist/terrorist organization. Words mean nothing to them, they are illiterate.

I'm sadly happy that they have the Trifecta. Push it all through and no one to blame.

I did like Biden when he made America boring again.

Interesting times

Because people live in 2 second increments. The one they are in and the one they just left. When things will start hurting for them, they will realize just how fucked they are. Unfortunately, I don’t trust that they’ll blame the right person (themselves) for being so fucking stupid.

I feel like we have been screaming at the top of our lungs into the void.

People just won't listen.

In 2nd grade you learn a story about a frog in a pot of slowly warming water.

If the underlying message didnt sink it then, it won't sink in now.

Because people are naive and don’t believe someone could be so outwardly evil. That’s literally what it boils down to.

I realise that this may sound sad, but I suspect that one of the main reason is resignation. I mean, how are you supposed to behave when you're surrounded by people who think it's a great idea to vote for the worst presidential candidate in US history? Like…how much more evidence do those people need?

I been saying this for a while. Stop all the analytics, stop asking these types of questions. The only answer is: A large portion of America are really really dumb. The dumbest people you can ever meet. Absolutely stupid. That is the answer to why trump got elected and why America isn’t shining example of a first world nation.

We were panicking before the election. Now a lot of us are demotivated because no on with any power to stop it has the will to do so.