Whenever I’m speaking with others about politics I’m reminded how fucking dumb half our populace is. It’s not even something from the past 100 years, even during the Roman times populism was a thing.

If anything you’d think that with our current educational system people would be smarter but sadly the opposite is true.

Peoe vote for parties just because they hate foreigners here. Sometimes I ask them, “did you know they wanted to increase taxes on X and decrease taxes for the rich”? And then you get all sorts of insults slinged at you. Blue collar workers with minimum wage calling me a “leftie” because I care about wanting decent health care and social wellbeing. People with minimum wage voting for parties that want to create more hardship for them and increase wellbeing and power for billionaires.

Mind you, I’m not even from the US, populism and fascism is a problem everywhere. You’d think people would have learned something from 1939 - 1945. You’d think we’d cooperate for the wellbeing as a species and try to explore things to make our life on earth better (or even trying to reach into space).

But nope here we are, hating on minorities. Helping billionaires getting more power. Destroying the wellbeing we have enjoyed for a couple of decades.