This Area of South Dakota Voted for Trump by Roughly 70%. Here's What They Think Now - A video by CNN

[factnotopinion]

As they said, most people they talked to said it was risky to talk about politics, and they especially won't talk to someone who they think is against them.

The majority of his supporters absolutely refuse to link him and his decisions with the quality of their lives worsening. They'll blame China for being 'unreasonable' they'll blame democrats for spending too much on "woke" programs that there's no money to give them relief. They'll simply just refuse to talk and say "it's too complicated for me to know what's happening but I trust the president" like basically what the cattle farmer said.

The heart of conservatism is fear. You can't compete if you're afraid, so what you do instead of bossing up is to try and crush others. Conservatism is the seed. A failed media and weak liberal opposition is the soil. What grows out of those conditions is fascism. The promise of fascism is this: " there are too many people taking advantage of our system. If we eliminate them, then there will be more for us. We deserve it because we are the TRUE citizens"

It's a loser's mentality. You don't want to compete against women for a job, so you'd rather bar them from working. You don't want to compete against international competitors who want to offer cheaper products, so you ban them from selling. You don't want to develop the mental fortitude to confront and make amends for the historical wrongs your ancestors committed to create a system of white supremacy you benefit from, so you just burn the books and ban the history. You don't want to understand how more complex the world actually is, so you'd rather ban any science that doesn't confirm what you already want to believe. You don't want to level up and learn other languages and make yourself more competitive, so you ban immigrants and other non whites in hopes that you'll have access to jobs you are VASTLY under qualified to have. If you kill all the people with disabilities, then that's money saved that would be going towards social programs meant to let them live their lives with some measure of dignity. It's all about hurting other groups to ensure that you get a special focus and privileges because you "deserve" them but they don't.

History has shown us what happens when you try to run a country that way. You lose. The south lost. Mussolini lost. Hitler lost. No fascist government has ever actually endured because at its heart it worships the appearance of strength rather than true strength. The romans were not a successful empire because they massacred everyone from a different ethnic group than their own. They were successful because they folded those ethnic groups INTO their own to the point where there were roman leaders of African and western European descent. These morons though are too afraid of the hard work and intellect it takes to build a strong prosperous society, so they see diversity, negotiation and compromise all as weaknesses instead of parts of a greater strategy.

All you can really do is stop wasting your time trying to interrogate whether these people regret their vote. The media was also complicit in his election because he is a ratings MACHINE for them. They needed him to win so they could pump out content like this constantly. If you don't want to frustrate yourself, focus on what's going on in your city. Focus on what you can do about zoning laws, public transport, police brutality, voting districts, etc. The federal branch of government is a clown show that needs to just play out until mid terms come around and you vote to send people to Washington who will at least try to check him.

Just beautiful articulation- sums it up perfectly.

 

[Vandelay]

Hope it's not too late when people finally wake up.

Listening to this, I think it's important to note that the people who didn't vote is worth noting. That is probably telling.

 

[TheJet]

Forgot South Dakota was a state. We need 2 countries already.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Some of them talking about taking a financial hit just to let Trump carry out his policies, straight crazy mindset.

A lot of them will take that L in silence though, you'll never hear about it because they wanna protect their white savior Trump.

For the next few years they will move in silence, and in 2028 re emerge with republican hats & flags to do it all over again.

Most of them won't ever mention Trump again, just like with George W. Bush, notice how they never bring him up as his administration was a disaster.

 

[Wild self]

It's time for the Trump States to secede. Non violently of course.

We need to convince them that it's because of Washington, the liberals, trans and gays, etc are the reason that they have been getting the bad deal over these past. ? (When was Brown v Board ..?). 70 years? Yup, things basically went wrong around then, the post WW2 era.

Let's just settle this once and for all. Make Dallas the new capital of the confederation, and let them have some real freedom for a change.

Man, the red states gonna reinstate slavery once they secede from the union and dont have to follow the Constitutional amendments anymore.

 

[Wild self]

It's "American exceptionalism", breh.

That ideology is a part of the reason we're in this mess. Since the US is supposedly "the greatest country on Earth", many Americans (especially White ones) believe that the rest of the world "mooches off" America and that "the world needs America, more than America needs them".

It's both ignorant AND arrogant

Thats what Tariq Nasheed believes. He wants his cult to be like White MAGA and kick out the immigrants, so that brehs and brehettes work for $6 an hour.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Wish I could rep you again @Scustin Bieburr

shyt needs to be posted on every social media outlet.

 

[keond]

Trump ain’t some unknown entity. He been an ass for decades, he was already president yall know what he’s about. Cacs favorite pastime is acting like they are gullible. They voted for white supremacy and would do it 100x again

 

[romeodunn]

It's time for the Trump States to secede. Non violently of course.

We need to convince them that it's because of Washington, the liberals, trans and gays, etc are the reason that they have been getting the bad deal over these past. ? (When was Brown v Board ..?). 70 years? Yup, things basically went wrong around then, the post WW2 era.

Let's just settle this once and for all. Make Dallas the new capital of the confederation, and let them have some real freedom for a change.

This may sound crazy but in the long term, this will be the best solution for everyone, a velvet divorce.