• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    I think they intuitively recognise that something is wrong, that they are being fucked, that the whole establishment is bad. They go for outsiders to it as a result of this.

    The problem is that they can’t tell which outsider is lying to them and which outsider is telling them the truth. They just know that the insiders are all “the swamp”.

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        6 days ago

        They don’t exactly have options.

        It’s the same in the UK. Everyone can recognise “None of the options we’ve tried have been good” so what do they do? They give it to whatever other option is available. That’s Reform next.

        The attitude I see over here is also partially “fuck it then, break everything, I don’t care”. Which is a partial manifestation of latent revolutionary energy.