Originally Posted by
FORD
The majority of his supporters - or at least the ones who are vocally so - truly are a bunch of bigoted fucking morons, and we know this because they're only too happy to tell you so. Bigoted because they go to his Nuremberg rallies, and fucking morons because most recently, they take the Orange dipshit's "advice" seriously during the pandemic, not only demanding their "rights" to infect themselves and others, but also taking the most idiotic bullshit seriously, like the idea of drinking or injecting some sort of chemical disinfectant. Lysol, bleach or whatever.
You can't reason with those people. They're the same bunch of ignorant subhumans who still supported Chimp & Cheney after their 8 years of failure. But then there's a much smaller segment of Cheeto voters. These would be working class voters, mostly from midwestern states which were formerly huge parts of the manufacturing sector. States that have been absolutely devastated by 4 decades of fucked up economic & trade policies. And the DLC fake "democrats" are just as much to blame for those failed policies as the BCE republicans have been.
Two candidates spoke out against those policies in 2016. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Bernie got fucked over by the Clinton machine, leaving Hillary as the illegitimate nominee, and nobody had any reason to believe she would be any different than her husband or Obama on these issues. Of course the Orange Asshole was lying his ass off and -unlike Bernie - had no real commitment to the populism he referenced in his speeches.
But some of these folks, not being especially "political" themselves, didn't look closely enough to realize they were being lied to. All they knew is that their states were suffering and they wanted to try something different, since the "conventional" politicians from both parties had failed them.
Well, they certainly got something different! But unlike the moronic bigots, this certainly wasn't what they had in mind.
No doubt in my mind that Bernie would have won the general election in every single one of those states where Cheeto got the "narrow" electoral wins. And unlike Trump, he would have delivered on his promises, and would have easily won re-election in those same states.
Biden?? Well he certainly liked to play up his "working class guy" image in the past, but his track record shows anything BUT that. And I honestly don't see him doing any better than Hillary in those states. For all the same reasons she lost there.