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PoindexterOglethorpe

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6. So true.
Sun Jan 5, 2020, 12:54 AM
Jan 2020

I do not have the patience to talk to these people, to engage them and find out why the fuck they vote against their own self-interest.

I suppose it's a combination of how badly history is taught in school (and DON'T get me started on that topic) and the fact that most people never read another book after high school, never pay any attention to anything that's not professional sports or something connected to Hollywood. But the vast majority of people are ignorant and have no clue that they are ignorant. This has always been the case. It's nothing new. But nowadays those people vote. And they vote from ignorance.

Sigh.

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amazing, isn't it? Takket Jan 2020 #4
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