• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    republicans wanted us uneducated so we’d be easier to manipulate. now those chickens have come home to roost. our populace is easily manipulated by russian propaganda

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      1 day ago

      Pretty much.

      This is what the Republicans have wanted for decades, they’ve just also been largely lying about not being this craven or extreme for decades.

      I come from a right wing household, was raised listening to Rush Limbaugh on the AM radio all the time.

      The base has always been like this, the people on top, funding and puppeting the base, have also always been like this.

      The mask is just off now.

      Trump just gave them all permission to stop pretending they gave a fuck about making sense or pretending to give a shit about any principles.

      It literally just is ‘first the Dems get a Black President, and then they ask us to wear masks in a pandemic?’

      Too much, the hard core rightoid loses their mind at this point, and just wants everything to burn.

      Of course it doesn’t help that neoliberal capitalism has been disenfranchising everyone for decades, but the base Republican voter is way way way too stupid, or horrendously misinformed to know what those words mean.