• alanine96@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    1 year ago

    The people who voted for these politicians are by and large not the demographics being fucked over by those policies. I also used to feel like the right response was to laugh at these states, and being reminded that people who didn’t want these policies are still suffering from them didn’t really convince me of anything–after all, collectively, isn’t that the community they’re choosing to live in?

    What changed my mind about that is realizing the harm is disproportionately distributed. Disenfranchised people are LESS likely to vote republican but MORE likely to suffer the effects of republican government. So when “they get what they voted for”, it’s really, “the poor get what the rich voted for”, and that doesn’t make me happy to laugh at at all.

    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yup. I didn’t vote for those fuckheads, but guess who got displaced for a week because they didn’t have power during that storm? Yeah, that’s me.