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You don't even live in the US, whereas most of us here know or are closely related to people who voted for him.
But sure, you probably know better.
I've lived through the conditions that produced MAGA, and I honestly could not care less if they felt "desperate." A lot of us have felt desperate, it doesn't excuse literal fascism.
I'm sure slave owners felt desperate when Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation. That's about how much I care about MAGA voters' claims of "desperation".
By the way, try actually finding out specifically what those people mean and you'll eventually realize that it comes down to ignorance, racism and xenophobia.
They became "desperate" after a black man was elected president twice.
But why do you think they are xenophobic or racist?
Doesn't that stem from nationalist and capitalist propaganda.
The notion that one state is better that the others exists everywhere and reinforces the nationalism very heavily. This is just the basic competitiveness of capitalism, that has its roots everywhere.
All these issues can be attributed to the capitalist nature of the state
It's because Europe and pacific Asia were humbled by the war. They know (culturally through their grandparents) that tyranny is not to be fooled around with. In the US we never got that lesson, in fact the war pulled us out of the Great Depression. So for our grandparents the lesson was war saved the economy and led to the US becoming the richest country in the world.
That's why we're so war hungry culturally as a people, we don't know a war that was actually devastating for us, even WW2 was fought overseas not a single bomb was dropped on the mainland.
So now we have a population of morons who think war is good.
I thinks it's also due to a lot of US exceptionalism propaganda. The US was always depicted as the savior or protector of the world. This has been ongoing for a long time, whicg is why the propaganda is soo deeply engrained in people's minds and it is a lot work to actually get through to people affected by it.
It's similar in Germany and a lot of the western world. Foreign countries are seen as uncivilized and people are only seen as humans if they can provide value to the nation. Propaganda is difficult to work against. Some people are easier to reach though and that shows that it is not impossible to reach people.
Yes but I think the lesson of WW2 shook the German people, like it did the Brits and French. Imagine a colonizer like Germany but didn't really suffer much during WW2. That's the US.
I'm done caring why
Because they are too weak, stupid, and proud to end the cycle of abuse.
It's like a man (or woman) beating the shit out of their child and then shrugging and saying "Well it was done to me".
Not sure how I can say this more clearly. American conservatives are bad people.