They’ve been trained to believe that politics is a team sport. What else do you think motivates them to vote against their interests?
Chomsky had it straight many decades ago, and sadly, we haven’t done much as a whole to prove him wrong:
”When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on.
These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding.
On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief.”
And it’s certainly turning out its ugly head again today. We’ve got motherfuckers coming here to talk shit…but when the red flags about the economy were coming out in 2019 and when they horribly botched the response to one of the worst pandemics we’ve ever seen? Fucking crickets. They can’t defend his policies (to the extent they even know what they are, which is doubtful), but they love to talk shit about “cuck lib tears.” And they think “libruls” are the problem.
No, motherfucker. The problem is dickheads like that who refuse to learn anything. If they have one talent in this world, it’s the complete inability to understand simple things and when called out for it, act all butthurt and indignant.
One of the big problems the Democrats had last night was low turnout. Sadly, the wrong people turned out. But that’s how it always is. When Trump said that he could shoot people on Madison Avenue and his numbers wouldn’t go down, he wasn’t joking and he wasn’t wrong either. There’s a reliable contingent of people who will vote for a fucking convicted felon as long as they have the magic R next to their name on the screen. They have no moral compass, and they think the biggest problem is people like me saying that they have no moral compass. Them not having a moral compass is their issue, not mine.
It’s like I tell my MAGAt cousin every time he spews out one of his baseless, chickenshit conspiracy theories without the slightest shred of evidence to support it:
if you don’t give me a reason to believe you, I have no reason to believe you, and not having a reason to believe you is literally the best reason not to believe you.