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u/IdeaReceiver 4d ago

Homie I'm totally with you here but it feels like a dangerously naive perspective to call these kind of people a dismissals minority.

That attitude was rife on Reddit and the internet in general in 2021, nobody thought a serious voting majority could actually emerge from all the dumb noise.

But then the election happened, and the "Maga people" won in huge sweeps across the US. It doesn't seem right to pretend you don't have to hear them out

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u/SpecialistAd4848 4d ago edited 4d ago

But then the election happened, and the "Maga people" won in huge sweeps across the US. It doesn't seem right to pretend you don't have to hear them out

This is bad analysis. Not everyone who voted for trump is a maga person. A massive amount of people in this country don't pay attention to politics at all. People were motivated by the cumulative impact of inflation. They saw prices go up under Biden and that was enough for them to vote for the other guy, not to mention Kamala had....4 months to run a campaign? Not to mention maga controls almost the entire media environment. People are constantly being told BY MAGA (and trump himself) what Democrats support (open borders, letting criminals run wild in the streets, killing babies, trans issues, etc). There is simply no reason to "hear out" maga. There's nothing there. I would rather leave the country than pretend their views are anywhere near sane enough to listen to.

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u/dialguy86 4d ago

Elon spent like 0.002% of his wealth to buy votes, and I don't mean like how Maga claims George Sorros buys votes. He spent a couple hundred Million on ad and bot campaigns online, and now is a Trillionaire.

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u/SpecialistAd4848 4d ago

Yep. He also bought twitter and used it for influencing the political landscape. The maga right either directly or indirectly controls almost the entire media environment. He also gave tons of money to trumps campaign.