Many voters supporting the former president also rated him as more truthful than their own friends and family

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    It’s because they are literal fascists.

    Yeah, I’ve said it a bunch of times. Gonna keep saying it, because it’s true.

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      Are you ready for the people who don’t understand what fascism to tell you that you’ve got it wrong?

      It blows my mind that people can’t accept that the Nazis had the same enemies that the Christian Nationalists do today: sexual, religious, and ethnic minorities & leftists. It’s not a coincidence, it’s a plan.

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        It’s the way history is taught in the US. We gloss over any wrong-doing by US leaders, whitewash American history while discussing pretty openly the failings of other states and forms of government…US educated children are (and I mean this word…literally) LITERALLY brainwashed into thinking that things like the vague concept of “fascism” existing only in Germany in the 30s-40s. If it’s not actual swastikas and red flags on every street corner with Jews being rounded up and killed by the millions…then it can’t be fascism.

        Our education system is severely lacking in a lot of ways, but not knowing how to put history in proper context while explaining how everything that’s happened has led to today and the exact conditions we are in now is one of its gravest failures.

        Not to mention, painting capitalism—a system that breeds people to viciously live in spite of others—as infallible and the final and only answer. That’s another horrible heavy dose of indoctrination that is just treated as a given.

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        Are you ready for the people who don’t understand what fascism is to tell you that you’ve got it wrong?

        Yup.

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    Because he’s the only candidate who has expressly promises to make the lives of people they hate worse

    Of course, that means their own lives will be worse, but they’re not smart

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    Despite Trump’s countless lies, 71 percent of Trump voters believe he is a source of “true” information, beating even their own friends and family, who ranked second with 63 percent.

    We have a term for this in English. It’s called a cult.

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      It was always weird to me how cults worked even with people’s friends and family saying otherwise. But here it is.

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      It’s worse than Idiocracy. In Idiocracy, the president recognized there was a problem and hired the smartest man to fix the problem. Later on he even stepped down as president and appointed the smart guy to take his place.

      We could only wish the Republicans had someone with that much integrity.

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    It’s because he’s making himself out to be a martyr who is challenging a corrupt system, which is why “the system” doesn’t like him and is trying to steal what is rightfully his.

    See? He’s the one fighting the true corruption!!

    Honestly, anyone who still buys into his shit at this point is dead to me.

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      It’s ironic because the system is truly corrupt, but he’s the worst of it.

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      I bet there is a significant portion of his base that thinks they’ve got it all figured out, proper iamverysmart or iamverybadass stuff.

      They see the same in him as themselves: stupid unjustified confidence and just spouting off random thoughts as truths. Just being an abrasive dickhead, but in a way that makes others feel embarrassed to even listen to them.

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    Trying to find any melanin in that crowd shot is literally the worst kind of “Where’s Waldo”.

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      Just such an insane photo in general.

      The all white crowd? The absolutely insane looking lady, holding the scared looking baby? The “Thank You, Lord JESUS, FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP” sign?

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    Predominately these are people that will vote anyone in that be burn down their house. The more evil the better as they dream of a chaotic revolution.

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    Trying to scroll through that site is a nightmare of mobile pop ups and interruptions. Clearly they’re not about getting information on anything to people when an ad covers 70% of the screen centered over the article.

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    This is TDS just on the Trump side, complete morons, anyone who idolizes politicians is dumb as fuck

    Look at that woman’s face….