The two trends that really bite are the searches on election day for "Did Biden drop out?" and "How do I change my mail in vote?" A significant number of people were either so uninformed that they had not noticed the biggest story of the election or were so confident in the polls that they only realized the consequences of a protest vote when it was far to late to change. I'm not saying these are the only reasons for how things shook out but they are, for me, the most infuriating.
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Definitely a very clear echo of the whole Brexit protest vote regret vibe.
Except this is like having Brexit, undoing it, and then doing it all the fuck over again after seeing how fucking dumb it was.
Quality of education matters
Goes to show that education and critical thinking skills don’t mix.
Yeah or focusing on “STEM” as if it’s the only thing that matters. People think that because they can solve technical problems that they can also solve society’s problems without any further education on the matters. The best example of this is Elon Musk.
Definitely don't think too much about why it is, exactly, that people are being steered away from degrees that actually do teach critical thought.
I also will not think about the reason behind why exactly politicians are dismantling public education as quickly as they can.
White and latino men were the largest demographic shifts of who sat out the election
Every other stat is almost a non factor to these two data points.
If every person who voted for Biden in 2020 did the same for Harris in 2024 then she would have won in a landlslide
But they lost 8-10% of those specific demographics, probably because of the masculinity issues of American men
Sounds like they need to be highly reeducated.
Too bad only Republicans are pushing policy for reeducation camps.
We know republican voters aren't interested in educating themselves...
Makes sense
In the sense that the most fervent supporters of fascism are the petite bourgeoisie, yeah.