Same as in 2016, everyone wants to believe that if the democrats had just said the exact right magic words, did the magic dance and then shot rainbows out of their asses, their candidate would have won. And who knows? Maybe there was some combination of nonsense they could have done and gotten a bit closer and won a couple of those swing states, but I still don't think Harris would have won.
My better half speculated that boomers and men in this country still weren't ready to vote for a woman, much less a non-white one. There's probably some truth to that. There's also talk of the contingent that is either ignorant of all of the things DT says or has done, or doesn't think he's "being serious". It's not like we had a 1st term and 8 years to figure out what kind of person he was (most of us already knew). There's probably also some truth to that. There's those who believe every bad thing said about him is a lie by the left-wing-media cabal. Russian social interference and disinformation campaigns were and still are ubiquitous. At this point it seems like an open secret with every intelligence agency in the world. They may as well not even bother changing their names or masking their IPs; what little their targets seem to care.
All these are contributors, sure, and I'm honestly not sure how much they do or don't tip the scales. What I know is the main reason is that people just like DT's general pettiness and shittiness. He tells people what they want to hear about the types of people and things they don't like (for one reason or another). He makes idiotic and horrible promises of cruelty towards those things. They eat it up and tell themselves its ok because he says he loves Jesus.
Update: News item broke while writing this:
In grade school when talking about things like weather, the climate, or just other big scientific concepts, kids would shout out ideas like "Why don't they just build giant electric fans to blow the hurricanes and tornadoes away from cities and people". An 8 year can be forgiven for not understanding why something like that isn't feasible , and yet I know adults who still think like this. Perhaps not about the fans specifically (though it wouldn't shock me), but this notion that whatever (not even) half-baked idea pops into your head is a good one and are baffled as to why none of the experts in the field have thought of this yet.
I wanted to make a more conscious effort to get my thoughts in writing again. I’m not sure what I’m thinking about right now to be honest. When I had this thought it was 3am and I was very tired. My mind went to the cosmos... to the quantum. All the theoretical physics videos I’ve been watching lately have given me the drunken impression that I understand all of it. My mind went to places of a societal/social nature. Of course now I can’t remember exactly what it was because I was tired and high as kite. Something about how sometimes we don’t recognized things until we give them a name, then they’re clear as day. Giving it a name also rigidly defines that thing though... and whatever the circumstance, there are those that will try to cram everything into neatly labeled boxes when reality is much more messy. ( from the notion that ancient people’s didn’t see the color blue because they didn’t have a name for it. The truth is they saw the color blue, it just didn’t stand out as all that unique to them from just being a Shade of black. )
This last year was crazy, of course... but I think I was in shock for a lot of it. Seems like a dream now. I’m just now starting to process a lot of the fucked up nature of it.
