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Idk maybe I'm getting older, but I've been through enough elections in my life to step back and see that this happens every time. The Internet turns to shit and everyone flings shit for a few days and then it's back to normal.

I feel like I'm past my prime in caring as much this year. My battles were fought in the past and now I'm disinterested in politics because I've been disappointed every time.

I curse and shout whenever I see a political ad. I cut relations with all Trump supporters back in 2016 and now I am cutting off all Harris supporters.

Don't assume that the majority of people who vote for Trump, are MAGA.

Many, if not most, are the same as many Biden/Harris voters in that they hate both candidates, and are voting for who they view as the lesser of two evils.

As I'm a Lemmy user, you can safely assume I'm not one of them, but the point stands.

But, if you're talking about people who have gone full on MAGA insanity, well they probably got there somewhere between 2016 and 2020, so there's not a a ton of new converts to deal with.

And even with then, they're the minority of a minority.

Of course, if someone is of the opinion that anyone who votes for Trump, no matter the reason, must be excised from their life, well that's their choice, but I kind of pity them.

Trump is not Hitler. He's too lazy and stupid to be Hitler. Let's not pretend that voting for Trump is the same as supporting Hitler, it's not.

He's a piece of shit authoritarian, but on the scale of American Presidents, the areas where he deviates the most from the norm, is how stupid and crass his corruption and racism is, not that he was corrupt and racist.

I still can't look you people (Americans) in the face from the last dozen horrible things you've collectively done.

How can you ever let your guard down around this maniac society, let alone go back to normal?

Living in the interior of the stolen lands, what normal do you even think there is to offer? Endless towns build on nothing but walmarts and jails, having displaced any culture of value generations ago.

The simple answer, if they wrap their entire personality up into red or blue I don't associate with em anyway. The fools who believe either side cares for them is hilarious. Frankly until there is a third option to split the vote it's one giant dumpster fire regardless of which rich fuck wins.

To the many people here saying (apparently with pride), "I just cut them all out": You are making the problem worse.

Honestly, if this is really your attitude to your fellow citizens, you deserve what you get. They have a vote.