• wildcardology@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’ve watched interviews of MAGAts being asked what specific Trump policy made their lives better and their answers are always “the economy”.

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      11 months ago

      They know that the real reason isn’t popular so they won’t say it most of the time.

      “He’s hurting the wrong people!”

      That’s all one needs to know, to determine that they are only about needless suffering, for needless suffering’s sake. They are not interested in helping anyone. They want to ensure that you have to suffer at least as much, and preferably more than they did.

      This particular ideology is literally counter to every previous ideology. They finally managed to create more than enough for everyone, and for the first time in human history a generation decided to be so greedy that their descendants are less well off than their parents.

      Welcome to late stage capitalism.