Originally posted by Neon Ignition
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You just have to accept that enough of the US voting public are ignorant and choose to remain so. That they are xenophobic, racist, sexist, misogynistic, perhaps anti-vax, creationist - and they will choose these values over logic or reason, not because they've been "fooled", it's because they want to. They don't want to think about it. Thoughts about trans people or asylum seekers or climate change make them uncomfortable, because they've made decisions their entire lives to allow that to be so. They don't want anyone to challenge their perceptions, and they also believe they might one day be a reclusive rich person and want to make sure the world is still balanced in their favour "when" that happens, and **** everyone else. And they dress this up in a kind of toxic perversion of the American dream, twisting its beautiful ideals of freedom, tolerance and liberty into something that serves as the first sentence in a paragraph of a textbook printed in several centuries' time about the downfall of civilisation. Or maybe just an epitaph stamped upon to the unattended ruins.
For some time now, I've held a strong belief in the "good" Americans, because I know plenty of them. But if they can't get this **** under control, I despair to think where we'll be in 20 years.
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