They’re very stupid. Most adults have reading comprehension below a 6th grade level
Most adults think they have a higher than average IQ, too. Quite the coincidence, don’t you think?
No.
They have higher than median HQ. Not average.
The long story short is: communication is hard and media is very powerful.
Also, the media is very owned by the top 1%. They would lose some money if healthcare became single payer.
They support him for different reasons, and half of those people are unbelievably dumb.
Because people, on the whole, are very stupid.
Believe it or not, some of the people cheering him on actually just like chaos and violence and don’t have any deeper politics.
This seems like a slur.
I do not believe you. I believe that it shows that the elections were not true to the opinions of the people.
That’s a very naive view of the reality of the U.S. Healthcare system.
They’re not single issue voters?
Or at least not that issue single issue.
They’re fine with privately funded homicide.
Because they think: if I have to suffer, everyone has to suffer. If someone hurts someone, I support it because I want to hurt people.
USA, USA!!
The politics of the ignorant.
People want a world where they are rulers over everyone and everything and often many people just can’t understand that there are other living, independent, free thinking individuals in the world. Most people see other humans as a hindrance to their own enjoyment of life.
They love Luigi Mangione because he is against the private health system that is stealing their money … but at the same time they like Trump because he is against any socialized sharing of government resources - they believe that government should help only them or the worthy and not just everyone, especially those they think are unworthy.
It’s a belief system that is based on the individual and only the individual at the cost of everyone else.
I had this argument with my mom the other day. She agrees private healthcare is a broken system and needs to be fixed, but you bring up public healthcare and she’ll fight tooth and nail to argue against it. It’s insane. Literal “no take, only throw” tier mindset
Propaganda. People have been told their whole lives that socialism is pure evil, nevermind what socialism actually is. Public healthcare is socialism, therefore it’s evil.
These people have known hardship, and what all of this will mean and feel like when it will soon come to them.
“Rules for theee, but not for meee”
It will impact them, but they’ll blame everyone else first, and Trump second.
Cognitive dissonance.
People have been taught to fear single payer healthcare. Money equals speech and the health industry has plenty of it. They control the narrative since the rich and powerful have bought up the media companies. They also control our lawmakers with unlimited money via citizens United; putting roadblocks in place for any sort of fundamental reform.
People vote against their interests as a function of a corrupt oligarchy running the show. People are getting played and just don’t know any better / have a limited world-view.
They believe in a free market but also believe the free market is currently corrupt.
It’s like people who believe in monarchy but hate their corrupt baron.
Similarly, I believe in democracy and often hate its result.
