I got this from a story on The Guardian, talking about a poll by Arab News Research and Studies Unit and YouGov, that states Arab Americans support Trump by a thin margin, despite overwhelmingly agreeing that hate crimes and racism will get worse if he’s elected.

I just… we’re fucked. We’re totally fucked.

  • Hello_there@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    I think the rationale goes like: Punish the good guys for being bad. They’ll lose, and then 4 years from now they’ll reform and treat you better. Essentially, give up on this next 4 years and hope that you’ll have an actual representative of your constituency after that.

    If the choice is between genocide and genocide lite I can see people making that decision.

      • Hegar@fedia.io
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        2 days ago

        If humans stopped trying something just because it’s never ever worked, we wouldn’t have to worry about republican governments getting elected.

    • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      That makes sense, but how well did that work in 2016? Pretty fucking badly, and now we’re stuck with a conservative Supreme Court for possibly the next few decades.

      Change needs to start from the ground up. Once left-leaning voters can actually match conservative voters’ numbers in off-year elections, then we can talk about reforming the party.

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      That’s a big fucking gamble. They better pray that if the would be dictator wins, there’ll even be another chance in 4 years.

      • CityPop@lemmy.today
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        3 days ago

        The alternative is there is never a chance, you just keep voting your color and they never have incentive to seek your vote.