Demonizing people who disagree with you makes them dig in their heels and elect the dangerous candidate and party, in spite of their best interests. Demonizing those people feels satisfying and necessary in the moment, but it ultimately backfires.

The so-called enlightened people can’t be counted on to vote. (I say this as one of those so-called enlightened people, albeit not in your country and therefore unable to shift the balance with you.)

Until you folks figure these two things out, this is your new reality.

This is absolutely right. There’s been an arrogance and complacency from moderate parties in the West over the last 20 years, assuming that the electorate will just automatically vote for them regardless. Now they’ve got to try and get these people back from the extremes, which is going to be harder to do than if they hadn’t taken them for granted before.

It’s part of a trend of a significant portion of the electorate feeling ignored. It’s a trend that’s happening in large parts of the West, we’re seeing it in Europe too in places like France and Germany.

Now you can argue about whether these people have a genuine grievance or not. But if we don’t try and address the underlying causes of these people abandoning moderate parties, we’re going to see more and more extreme candidates and parties being successful. And I don’t think that’s something any of us want.

The American Constitution will stop him doing a lot of things people are scared of.

People on Lemmy will tell you it’s going to disappear because orange man wants to kill everyone, or something.

What is likely to happen is nothing.

Yes, there’s an awful lot of hysteria about Trump, when in reality he’s just a shit president.

Thank you for being patronising, I understand it perfectly well.

I’m trying to bring a semblance of reality to the mass hysteria.

“Known bullshitter spreads bullshit”.

He said all this kind of nonsense the last time he ran. He’s just a stereotypical “big man” who just says any old shit for attention.

This doesn’t really make sense.

He has won because more people voted for him in a democratic election. That’s literally democracy in action.

You might not like the result (it’s frankly bizarre from an outsider’s POV), but that doesn’t mean “democracy is dead”.

Or just talk about her policies: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50802-harris-vs-trump-on-the-issues-whose-policies-do-voters-prefer

It’s actually incredible how they tried to copy Hilary Clinton’s campaign tactics of endorsements and warnings about Trump.

That didn’t work last time. Why would it work now?

And Harris has done worse than Biden in every county in America.

Not every state. Every county.

How would he win it through fraud? If he wins, he’ll win legitimately.

Claiming that it’s fraud if he wins is exactly what Trump did in 2020.

Did you know that wanting to browse cat pics is just a distraction from the oppression of late stage capitalism by the bourgeoisie?

Or that they just want to get away from politics for five minutes.

No one, because I live in the UK.

But I would vote Harris with zero enthusiasm.

If you have a passion for something and the means in which to pursue it, I would go for it.

Think about how you will feel in the future if you didn’t pursue it and left yourself with questions of what could have been.

Not when he has been creating a narrative since 2020 that he was the real winner of that election and all these court cases are just designed to try and stop him from being President.

His supporters have bought the premium subscription to this narrative, so nothing is going to change their minds. In fact, the more court cases there are, the more support he gets.

Even though going after him for his alleged crimes is the right thing to do, I actually wish they’d just let him fade into obscurity instead. Because all it has ended up doing is helping his campaign.

To be fair, the current Israeli government has far-right members in it, so a centrist would look far-left in comparison!

Yeah, this isn’t something that any of us can decide for you. And any views will be clouded by how people think on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Well, it’s computer software, so it can’t be non-binary.