MAGA The Bitter Sweet Awakening

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In this segment we see someone who works in education with a special needs kid who voted for trump slowly realize their child in Oklahama isnt going to get the help they need under a trump administration.

[ronoc]

The whole "I didn't think the bad things would happen to me" is such a sadistic take because it means they pictured it happening to others and STILL were in favour of it.

[jamesrobertson]

I work with a MAGA guy who was complaining that his expanded Medicaid might be going away. He actually said "Why can't everybody in the country just pay, like, $100, so everybody could get insurance?" I told him that's called Universal Healthcare, and that's exactly what Democrats would like to do but Republicans are 100% against it. He had no clue about any of this, but he's been crowing about trump beating 'Kamala' for weeks now.

[aidancampbell]

I talked to quite a few Trump supporters before the election. They were really excited to vote for policies he didn’t have. Loved qualities about him that Trump doesn’t possess. They were determined to vote against policies that Kamala Harris wasn’t running on and told me all the things they didn’t like about Harris that had no relationship to her.
Trump supporters just had a fantasy election, and now their fantasy is crashing into the reality of what they actually voted for.

[ronhall]

The billionaire class has convinced the working class that the struggling class is the problem.

[dacksonflux]

"But myyyy son... me and my family are still going to receive services, right?"
This mentality is behind disgusting.

[GusMcGuire]

As someone from outside the US, I used to watch those westerns on TV where you'd see a snake-oil salesman conning whole communities out of their money, and I'd think "That's just exaggeration and stereotyping. No-one can be that gullible." Now I know different.

[AxelQC]

One of my HS friends is a huge MAGA head. He was attacking me for my support of "socialism", and then the next week he's posting on FB about how he'd just moved to Texas, and his school doesn't have the support his special needs son requires. I responded, "Well, Maryland provides that to kids, but you have to pay taxes for those programs to exist."

[josephmikolaitis]

The most important part of a functioning democracy is an educated & well informed electorate that cares.

[Paul-tybv]

The real lesson to take away from this is how many people are reliant upon government, taxes, and welfare who believe they aren't reliant upon government, taxes, and welfare.

[ctatrains]

They failed the open book test because it required an open mind.

[derekfebo]

George Carlin said it best (paraphrasing): "Think of how dumb the average person is, and then consider that half the population are dumber than that."

[tntakulus]

It’s sickening to see a country crumbling because of stupidity.

[dudemantype]

America suffered from the covid pandemic... now it's suffering from a stupidity pandemic.

[iainballas]

I legit have to wait at the bus stop near a guy who sit there every morning to watch the birds. He's in section 8 housing, rent-controlled fixed-income situation based on having broken his back when he was 26 (50 now) and being on full disability since 2002.
He voted for trump, and spends every morning talking about how he hates people who don't work for a living, and leech off the system. I finally looked at him after about a year of listening to him, and asked "So what do you do for a living?" And he blithely replied "I'm disabled. Obama wants to kick people like me to the curb." What the ACTUAL heck?

[margaretjohnson]

but i didn't vote for this! YES, YOU DID.

[lija]

"The cost of apathy is to be ruled by evil men" -Plato

[lakegroce]

God it’s like the Obamacare/ACA thing. I don’t have any sympathy for MAGA voters because they had no sympathy for the people they thought Trump was only going to hurt instead of all of us.

[ButUrWrongTho]

America was given a national intelligence test and they scored absent.

[AC-ywdu]

Kid is probably screwed and mom voted for it. Great parenting.

[ettazak]

This is the most comprehensive, yet brief, take on election 2024 outcomes I have seen. As a teacher, and human being, I shudder.