The result may surprise you: about 50/50, based on polls. These people relate their thoughts and experiences and explain why they feel as they do.
The result may surprise you: about 50/50, based on polls. These people relate their thoughts and experiences and explain why they feel as they do.
It’s literally just boredom and dissatisfaction driving people to change from one side to another. Thanks to the two-party corporatocracy that the US pretends is a democracy, what other options do they have?
That is one component.
Not being able to connect the things happening irl with the specific policies that Trump implemented to directly cause them is another. e.g. he deregulated train safety, then we saw a bunch of train derailments occur, both still under Trump and some later under Biden. Trump basically defunded those specific police, then we FAAFO.
Another is that when you are surrounded by people who say the same thing (as one another), some people go with that “authority” over what they see with their very own eyes. So they trust the Joe Rogan podcast over their own analysis - e.g. MANY federal crimes is bad, but if podcast says so then it must be “the system” that is bad (which heavily ironically… it is!) rather than Trump. Normalization of Fox News did so much bad, especially allowing it to call itself the label “news”.
We did not get to our current state of affairs overnight, and we will not be able to dig ourselves out of this quickly and easily. Ironically, they get that, and despite him being a racist personally, they are willing to overlook if he would make things better. The other side has to get its message across that it will do more to help the common (black) man & woman than Trump would, and did.