• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    24 hours ago

    While polls are likely BS, supposedly 90%+ of Republicans support Trump, in what can only be believing what he says. Even though farmers benefit the most from free trade, and immigrant labour for that matter, they seem to keep voting for him.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      23 hours ago

      People treat politics like sports until there are clear personal consequences for them. The problem is that most people don’t really connect government policy with the goings on in their daily lives. They treat it as an abstract team sport that happens on TV. But when you get an economic crash as a result from a war, it becomes hard to ignore the causality behind it/