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Americans are dumber than I thought.

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That become very obvious in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023.

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They’re dumber because lots of them want Trump, but I wouldn’t say this makes Americans as a whole dumber because very few of them support DeSantis. He’s just throwing random shit out there like this at this point.

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Sadly, our woefully inept electoral system lets the few dumb ones speak loudly for the rest of us.

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Our systems are just so unbelievably broken. They gerrymander and destroy other systems to keep themselves in power and its just sick.

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We have been far too tolerant of the intolerant for far too long. This is inevitable

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Seriously…it’s that whole “they came after this group and you said nothing” bc we ignored the red flags. People ignore the signs until it hits them and its too late despite those like me doing what we can(which isn’t much) to fight it…

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American Republicans*** Don’t lump me in with those assholes.

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Euphoric Xenophobia moment.

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YOoo I guess we’re so fucked up that border war and colonialism is back on the table

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It’s funky to imagine that a state that was once seen as “purple”, generally, would also elect someone was ragingly insane as DeSandurz.

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You can thank gerrymandering and low voter turn out due to gerrymandering for that…

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Low voter IQ, I think you mean.

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It can be both, and often is

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How does gerrymandering play in to DeSantis election? Isn’t it popularity voting that decides Florida’s governor?

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Gerrymandering leads to disenfranchisement, which leads to lower voter turnout by the opposition, which then leads to his election. You see a similar thing happen in Texas as well because people think “oh my vote doesn’t matter, why should i vote anyway?”

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Tbf he’s done a lot to disenfranchise those he doesn’t agree with or make it harder for them to vote. All bc that side can’t believe they’re not popular anymore…

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This really rolls off the mental tongue

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I read this in Jonathan Harris’ voice.

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DeSantis is a fucking moron.

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He’s really not, his base is dumb and he plays to them rather effectively but he’s not dumb just manipulative and without morality.

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You are correct.

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I disagree, he’s dumb and horrible with anything that has to do with economics too. Fascism is a terrible system.

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I subscribe to the dumb-dumbs can vote for dumb-dumbs theory myself.

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Politicians play roles, his is to be hateful and just barely effective. In that situation playing dumb is quite effective.

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I agree that he manipulates his base.

He’s a fucking idiot, that’s not negotiable. He does too many things that do not serve the manipulation of his base that are too dumb to excuse. The meatball has no brain.

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