Over two-thirds of likely Republican voters continue saying they will vote for Donald Dumb in both the republican primaries and the general 2024 election.
These are the white protestant backwoods deplorables who live in the desolation of the American interior and whose isolation make them fear anyone who is not blond like their orange idol. Ignorance is rampant and self-centerdness is endemic to America which never ceases to pat itself on the back: manifest destiny, greatest country, most powerful, beacon on a hill... every self-serving superlative has been used.
As a sample of the threats that are being made by the deplorable white racists of middle America, read here what the former Tennessee governor, Mike Huckaby, a typical neanaderthal peasant from Appalachia, had to say if Donald Dumb loses the 29024 election: [ https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mike-huckabee-hints-violence-trump-204332757.html ]
The evening primetime news of the big television networks goes by maginfied titles like "Word News Tonight", in which you may hear one report of international news (only if it bears some relation to America) with the superficial coverage of a Hollywood movie, then a bunch of news on petty crimes, drug busts, hurricane excitement, runaway fugitives, a tear-jerker of course, and weather and sports, all interspersed with long minutes of mind-numbing consumer-driven commercials. And these are the big networks, the "private federal" news if you will, not the even more plebeian local news. There is one poor parent of them all, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) which is funded with crumbs of federal money, which is why it spends weeks and months every year on annoying fund-raising to survive. But it produces what I consider relatively interesting and in-depth analysis. Otherwise, American news is a commercial enterprise; it has no interest whatsoever in educating its audience. To the contrary, it serves the American public the fast food equivalent of information.
Rarely is news presented about other countries, which is why the average American cannot tell where Canada is located on a map, let alone more distant countries which might one day, American imperialism oblige, be invaded by democracy-exporting and resource-pilfering America. Which is why also, American soldiers are inevitably shocked and feel condescending at the cultural differences between their "great" country and Iraq for instance. Having no idea about, say, the Vietnamese or the Iraqis, their history and their narratives, this cultural shock that US soldiers experience translates into endless nagging about supposed post-traumatic syndromes and depressions upon their return home. In a properly informed, prepared and educated army, soldiers are able to overcome these difficulties. Can you imagine what the Americans would be going through if their country suffers the trauma that Ukraine is going through? Yet you see Ukrainians fighting calmly and confidently, sometimes with a smile, without the hyperbolic bullshit (of either exaggerated heroism or exaggerated victimization) one can imagine in American soldiers.
This is the America that voted for idiots like Reagan, the Bushes, father and son, then climaxed its imbecility by electing Donald Dumb who lost the popular vote by several millions to Hillary Clinton, but won because of the archaic electoral college system that resembles Lebanon's "consensual democracy": It doesn't matter what voters choose; some unelected jackasses are given the power to decide and override the popular vote.
We all have heard the oft-repeated statistic that white Middle Americans will no longer be a majority by 2050, but only the largest minority. The upheavals caused by Donald Dumb all stem from this realization that the cowardly and politically-correct American news networks avoid discussing. Backwoods white America will not accept to be a minority, and is knowingly insisting on backing a criminal Mafioso like Donald Dumb because he offers them a chance to remain clinging to a nostalgic time when they had exclusivity of power.
What Donald Dumb means by "Make American Great Again" is to somehow buck the demographic trend working against white Middle America. Rather than accept that the world is changing and that America, the immigrant nation - no one is native to it except the indigenous native Amerindians - cannot remain stuck in 1776 or 1865, well-informed wise people accept change, adjust to it, and move forward. Donald Dumb's MAGA crowd is refusing the reality of change and appears to prefer a second civil war whose cost would be horrendous and its outcome uncertain, especially if led by the indicted, and soon convicted, Orange Man.
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