• Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t know why you think I’m assigning Trump voters any intelligence. I am certain they’re incapable of critical thinking.

    I’m not saying people are interpreting what “America First” means. What I’m saying is that the meaning of “America First” is clear to anyone who thinks it through, and it takes a moron to not to consider that eventually Trump’s aggression will turn to allies, and to large swaths of his own voter base as well.

    But the fact that the meaning is obfuscated in discourse doesn’t change that people voted for this, because there was ample evidence of the true meaning, evidence that can only be ignored purposefully. They voted for this, they voted him for “America First”. It’s like driving home without thinking, with the brain fully on autopilot. People know what they’re doing, even if they’re not thinking it through.

    • DaveyRocket@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      People who aren’t thinking things through know what they’re doing? If you say so….