Obviously I didn't want Kamala to win.
But the real issue is that I personally feel that Kamala was selected to lose.
Hillary Clinton too. It's all the more effective to have us feel like we really dodged a bullet, and won something by electing him.
When I was younger no one cared about politics.
You could talk about it, and people generally just didn't give a damn at all.
Even in 2016, I can remember telling my father that we needed to get Trump elected. He basically told me that I shouldn't live "with the world on my shoulders".
By 2020, he was calling me begging me to vote. Same in 2024.
He jumped in on Trump full-board, and I know a lot of people who only started worrying about politics since after his first term.
Trump's function was to get people invested in voting, and it worked.
Everyone worries about politics.
When I look at Facebook that's mostly what I see from people who not that long ago didn't say anything political.
Social media is also a huge part of why this happened because of the algorithm prioritizing content that makes people outraged.
It's why half the country became fixated on the idea that police officers kill unarmed black men constantly, and why we have body cams on every officer.
Ironically, now the left has even floated the idea of getting rid of body cams which is INSANE.
But the more people watch them, the more they become aware of what police deal with and why they are trained to open fire when someone acts questionably in defying a lawful order.