What scares me the most about the US election is the tribalism. The fact that people have stopped caring about what politicians do or say, because it all comes down to “our candidate good, their candidate bad”.

This way of thinking is what has opened the door to dictators throughout history. And the problem is, people do not regret their vote until the dictator wins and starts taking away their freedoms — THEN they suddenly complain, THEN they “never supported the guy”, and then it is too late.

@randahl

You have to understand ... what looks like weird shifting justifications for voting for the racist guy is actually just common knowledge among racists that you aren't supposed to say aloud the real reason why you support the racist guy.

If you go by what they say, you might think that they will regret their vote later on when the racist guy goes against what they said they wanted. But in truth, they won't regret it. They never believed what they said in the first place.

@isaackuo @randahl Well, there's a lot that the guy says that you can't hold a position on. You couldn't say if it's true or false. So they're quite used to going, "What he really meant was..." and then just filling it in with whatever they want because what he said was meaningless in the entire--not even any context or subject to latch onto.