Project 2025 is a Blueprint for Fascism: Why Aren’t More People Panicking?!

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1. because they voted for it? Am I right?

2. If voters were ignorant enough to vote for Trump despite January 6th and all of his other wannabe dictator statements, there really isn’t any hope of them having enough intelligence to understand what a dangerous situation they created by voting him back in. 

3. But he told everyone he didn’t know what it is, so it must not be real. 

   Get ready for the “I voted for trump not for this” defense. 

4. Because they aren’t really aware of the significance, to them, of the institutions that Trump will wreck.

5. Because fascism means cheap eggs.

6. As long as someone with low information is promised potential monetary gain, they don’t care how you get there. Even if that means significant rollbacks of things you take for granted every day.

7. Many are panicking but they’re like deer in the headlights stunned.

8. Because they don’t understand how our government and economy work at all. They won’t panic until it’s too late.

9. They must think it will be concentration camps of everyone else and not them.

10. I’m still not convinced this election was won by Trump legitimately. Go ahead, rail and downvote on me all you want. But given Trump’s statements on the campaign trail alluding to such shenanigans, and the fact he acted like he didn’t even have to try towards the end…it leads me to believe the fix was in.

11. Because history has clearly demonstrated that dictators are almost always handed power to them on a silver platter

12. Because they welcome it.

    1930s Germany – Jews. 2020s – immigrants.

13. I’m prepping

14. Most voters aren’t panicked because most voters think they’re “one of the good ones” that won’t be impacted. 

15. >…viewing pornography punishable with prison time…

    I’m sure the young men who backed Trump must be so happy to hear that. What’s next? Masturbation perhaps.

    >>…maintain a biblically based definition of marriage and family

    Do they mean plural wives and having a quiverfull of babies until the mother’s body literally wears out?

    I saw this coming when Reagan was in office. It sucks to be right sometimes.

16. Because they think Trump will hurt *others* and not *them*

17. Most people I’ve spoken to about it do not believe it is real.

18. Three thoughts. Many people are dismissing it as much ado about nothing, another group want it all to happen and many people are worried but recognize they cannot do much.

19. People are dumb

20. I guess the same reason there wasn’t enough panic in Germany in the 1930s?

21. Chickens voted for Colonel Sanders

22. Because this horrible shit has been normalized!

23. We have discussed this and other topics like it to death over the last few weeks but the answer remains the same. Most of the voters took the very classic non-incumbent bait of we will out more money in your pocket than the current guys…and that’s all it took, as we have seen repeated in a lot of elections globally post pandemic.

    The vast majority of voters are very ‘surface level’ with their choices and with Fox News being the most viewed ‘news’ channel in the USA and giving zero air time to Project 2025 or any significant GOP policy other than ‘the Republicans will protect the border (which they are refusing to do until elected), because is scary right now’ and ‘Trump will bring down gas prices’ it’s not shocking that many were easily taken in. Most voters are not looking any deeper than that. Tbh most aren’t even going Fox News deep.

24. Because reading comprehension is low.

25. When it comes to mass deportation, many GOP farmers were dismissive saying Trump 1.0 didn’t raid their workers in most interviews I’ve read. Of course this could be whistling by the grave for 2.0 and home builders who use migrant framing roofing crews mounted a guest worker permit offensive pre-election. We’ll see.

    On the Democratic side, social psychology papers opined many major Democratic donors would be pissed *if voters returned the idiocracy into power .. again* and may let the avg consumer take their lumps while “softening” up the Trump 2.0. There’s also looking at legal issues. They may have to pay $1-2 more on their Chez Snooty tab to ensure the dishwasher is legal .. whatever.

    On reproductive rights and lbtg front, think it’s way more serious. Overhearing some conversations at a state u coffeehouse, some young hetero women/couples are leaving the US at least for a bit (probably with parental financial support). Lbtg people have been migrating away from red areas even before ‘24. Black people (a significant amount) have been moving back to the south for economics for a couple decades, and if anything the choice of Harris will probably resonate with them. One bright spot as the Democrats need to be challenging everywhere.

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