@MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
2026-10-20 15:48 UTC
I keep bringing this up to people IRL too. I legitimately just do not understand how this is the case. Everyone says it’ll keep dropping, but it just hasn’t. It’s terrifying to know that 1/3 people in the US think like this. I know due to population distribution it’s not exactly like this, but imagine if every third person you interacted with in your daily life still supported this. 3 tellers at the bank? One of them is a rabid supporter of a rapist and felon, have fun! How do we even function as a country? There is something deeply wrong with these people and I don’t even know where to start. I have gone no contact with a few trumpers in the family and they weren’t good people to start with necessarily, but they were contributing members of society. The longer it went on the more angry and entrenched they became. I wonder if they started like this or there’s an element of digging in their heels that has made them unable to believe their lying eyes and ears.
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 18:21
That third doesn’t trust the same news sources that you do; many don’t do anything political at all, and just vote by party. The other third is politically educated, they just disagree with the Democratic party on key issues (like for one example abortion). Democrats are only a third (28% or so) of voters and shrinking (same with Republican party, 28%). 44% of voters are independent. I know it doesn’t seem so on Lemmy, but the real world is a very different place. Why, they didn’t even cheer when Charlie Kirk was assassinated! Unbelievable!