Trump is winning all these states and look at the percentages. How?

Edit: many news agency are calling PA for Trump. So we are truly fucked.

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    You grossly overestimate how intelligent/informed the average American voter is. I really don’t think they know what they’ve done, are doing or what is being done to them.

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      I’d really like to know how many people didn’t hear Trump call Brad Raffensperger and try to get him to throw the election. I’m shocked anyone could listen to that and think it’s OK to give him power again regardless of their position on any of the issues.

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      It’s beyond clear they have no idea or are 100% complicit, there is no middle ground. Our country is absolutely fucking retarded. We are doomed

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      This has nothing to do with intelligence, but everything to do with selfish entitlement.

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        The pandemic wasn’t that long ago, that experience settled any debate as to how ill informed the average citizen is. Most of the people voting are actively working against their own interests. There is a minority who benefit from the bad policy, the majority inevitably suffer. That has been the state of affairs since (at least) the Reagan era.

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          Every antivaxer knows the Science shows vaccines work, they just refuse to accept science, and claim it’s a conspiracy, because they are religious fanatics, that refuse to accept anything that counter their religion.
          I’ve claimed for 20 years that USA as a nation is mentally ill. They celebrate individualism and freedom to a point where sociopathy has become a virtue, because zero moral standards means ultimate freedom. Then they replace their lack of moral standards with arbitrary pseudo moral standards from the bible.
          That’s the problem, not that they are uninformed.

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            Every antivaxer knows the Science shows vaccines work

            Having debated a couple who are quite intelligent otherwise, I’m going to have to dispute that.

            Sure, they know broadly that exposing the immune system to something that looks like a pathogen primes it to respond to that pathogen in the future, but they tend to be way off on the implications. I’ve heard it suggested that too many vaccines cause people to run out of immune memory. I’ve heard that all antibodies cause inflammation. I’ve heard that previous attempts to produce coronavirus vaccines killed the majority of test subjects years later.

            None of those claims are true, and the only way they could be true is if everyone in the field of immunology is lying all the time.