Proof that widespread ignorance is leading this country to Trump

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-supporters-sharply-divided-media-consume-rcna149497

Excerpt: "Biden holds an 11-point lead among traditional news consumers in a head-to-head presidential ballot test, with 52% support among that group to Trump’s 41%. But it’s basically a jump ball among digital media consumers, with Trump at 47% and Biden at 44%.

And Trump has a major lead among those who don’t follow political news — 53% back him, and 27% back Biden."

What this says to me is that the more you actually know, the more you will support Biden. The less you know, the more you support Trump. And if you get most of your news from social media you lean slightly Trump.

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RidetheSchlange

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Then what about the tankie dark web fans, like those that love Hasan and the Majority Report who have been actively campaigning against Biden for the last year and only softened (coincidentally at the same time) when it became too real that Biden could lose because of the dissent in the left. Now they're back with modified angles at the same time and various anti-Biden bad takes While you can't say they're one-topic voting right now, they do have a one topic in punishing Biden for Gaza and everything else.

The other issue is the war on education. The republicans and conservatives worldwide, such as the Tories, have been at war with education and this is why you've heard all these dark web people claim education doesn't matter, from Joe Rogan to Fuentes and everyone else at war with US universities now. They're not at war with anything but people getting educated. They only want the hardest of idealogues in the US to be educated. Brexit and the Tories having absolute control over the UK sent a message worldwide of how effective attacks on education can be, especially when you fill that vacuum with propaganda and fake news.

proudbakunkinman

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The portion of the "left" heavily influenced by Russia, going back to the Soviet Union, and China (where being left to them means bashing Democrats and their base (the evil "libs" and liberalism as a whole) all the time and placing high priority on global conflicts, present and past, with an anti-US/west campist world view) are more influential online but in actual data, are still a small percent of the population. Of course, the presidential elections are decided by a small amount of voters in a few swing states. Their talking points in addition to the very similar Republican / right ones (as well as clickbait, ragebait pumping for-profit "news") influence many people who don't know better, particularly people who are very online and/or watch a lot of 24/7 cable news, especially Fox of course.

I think an even larger problem is the many people who avoid following politics and vote based largely on the price of things (which they think is the "economy"). They don't align Republican, and especially not Trump fans, but are leaning towards voting that way or not at all largely based on that. Due to covid related inflation (both the real increase in core costs but also the ease for companies to exploit it to increase profits) as well as lower wage workers earning more (and those at the top of the companies not wanting to cut into their paychecks and profits and passing that on to consumers), they were up noticeably more for a couple of years following the peak of covid. The rate returned closer to normal for the past year or so but the prices have not gone down much, which is what people seem to be mad about, comparing what they think prices were before Biden became president to now. Likewise with the cost of housing and renting being up for various reasons.