Demonizing people who disagree with you makes them dig in their heels and elect the dangerous candidate and party, in spite of their best interests. Demonizing those people feels satisfying and necessary in the moment, but it ultimately backfires.

The so-called enlightened people can’t be counted on to vote. (I say this as one of those so-called enlightened people, albeit not in your country and therefore unable to shift the balance with you.)

Until you folks figure these two things out, this is your new reality.

This is absolutely right. There’s been an arrogance and complacency from moderate parties in the West over the last 20 years, assuming that the electorate will just automatically vote for them regardless. Now they’ve got to try and get these people back from the extremes, which is going to be harder to do than if they hadn’t taken them for granted before.

It’s part of a trend of a significant portion of the electorate feeling ignored. It’s a trend that’s happening in large parts of the West, we’re seeing it in Europe too in places like France and Germany.

Now you can argue about whether these people have a genuine grievance or not. But if we don’t try and address the underlying causes of these people abandoning moderate parties, we’re going to see more and more extreme candidates and parties being successful. And I don’t think that’s something any of us want.

The American Constitution will stop him doing a lot of things people are scared of.

People on Lemmy will tell you it’s going to disappear because orange man wants to kill everyone, or something.

What is likely to happen is nothing.

That’s for the maximum amount of protection, but it continues to protect afterwards. It’s not a cliff edge.

He was a shit President, but all the doommongering about how WWIII was about to begin never happened. Because he was just shit and incompetent.

The next four years will be similar.

I am very, very, very vaccinated, but I’m still not comfortable unmasked.

I genuinely don’t understand this attitude. The vaccines work, very well in fact. Yet people are still paranoid about COVID.

Why would you be worried after being protected?

Lemmy is going to be insufferable for the next four years, isn’t it? Hysteria is already through the roof.

Yes, there’s an awful lot of hysteria about Trump, when in reality he’s just a shit president.

It’s based on recognisable names. “Harris” is quite generic, whereas Kamala is instantly recognisable.

The similar situation in the UK was when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister. He was often referred to as Boris, as opposed to Johnson.

Thank you for being patronising, I understand it perfectly well.

I’m trying to bring a semblance of reality to the mass hysteria.

“Known bullshitter spreads bullshit”.

He said all this kind of nonsense the last time he ran. He’s just a stereotypical “big man” who just says any old shit for attention.

This doesn’t really make sense.

He has won because more people voted for him in a democratic election. That’s literally democracy in action.

You might not like the result (it’s frankly bizarre from an outsider’s POV), but that doesn’t mean “democracy is dead”.

Or just talk about her policies: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/50802-harris-vs-trump-on-the-issues-whose-policies-do-voters-prefer

How do these people not see any news? Like, at all?

It amazes me how people can be so unaware of anything going on.

It’s actually incredible how they tried to copy Hilary Clinton’s campaign tactics of endorsements and warnings about Trump.

That didn’t work last time. Why would it work now?

And Harris has done worse than Biden in every county in America.

Not every state. Every county.

We are the World Champions at it.

I dread to think what comes up if you search for those restaurants near you…

I had to queue for about 5 minutes for the EU referendum in the UK.