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> I'm just not sure if the world deserves this.

So, I'm right and the other party is wrong? No questions asked.

A more useful thing would be: WHY did people vote for Trump? They are surely intentional as you observe. What gave them this intention? Was it DEI? Did they like Trump's hair?

> They are surely intentional as you observe.

I share exhibit A: a BBC interview with an "undecided voter". Excerpt:

"I have no freaking clue man. It's so hard. When I voted for Trump, it came down to who would I trust with my kid alone and it wasn't [President Joe] Biden.

I'm still undecided.

All of my family is voting for Kamala and my friends are voting for Trump.

I'm going to vote for one of them. I've got no idea which one.

I'm still super-duper undecided. I think I'm leaning toward Kamala over Trump, if I think about who I would trust alone in a room with my daughter.

I'm going to make up my mind when I go into the ballot booth."

I share this, not to lampoon this human being, but to correct any misconceptions that human voters always have a rational model of who to vote for, and why.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7484kwl55qo