No, Amish voters in Pa. did not carry the election for Donald Trump
www.inquirer.com
The large Amish community in Lancaster County and across the state has long been seen as an untapped voting bloc for Republicans.

Jebus, stop trying to find a single group to blame, it’s the entire god damn American public that’s at fault.

White, Latino, Blacks, Asians, men, women, Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, atheists, Republicans, Democrats, progressives, everyone in America knew who Trump and Republicans are and screwed the pooch and the entirety of America.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      17·
      11 days ago

      We either are, or are not a country. If you absolve yourself of responsibility because you didn’t personally vote [for Trump] then there’s no impetus to make the country better. After all you’re just a passenger. You gave up your agency.

      Edit- I missed a couple words. I never meant to say they didn’t vote.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        51·
        11 days ago

        This is just some weird line of thought you came up with but it stands up to no scrutiny. Where it falls apart even more obviously is if you look at the more authoritarian governments around the world. Go ahead, blame those victims too and see how much sense it makes. But we don’t even have a democracy in the United States. The popular vote doesn’t matter as long as the gerrymandering worked as intended (which is often).

        The only way your logic would hold up at all is if there were some international program that let people move for free to another country if they didn’t like what was going on in theirs. Because that would never ever exist, and so much is beyond our control, it’s just braindead to pretend otherwise.

        Ps I voted and said so. Not sure why you’re saying I didn’t. My whole point is that we don’t get to victim blame those who did their part to stop this evil

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          17·
          11 days ago

          Oh you voted Harris so you’re a victim now? Nobody has any sympathy for the people who did nothing but vote in those autocratic regimes. And throwing away your own agency certainly doesn’t make you a victim. We’re all in this no matter who we voted for.

                • Maggoty@lemmy.world
                  12·
                  11 days ago

                  What’s nonsensical here? We have a responsibility as citizens to turn this around. And saying, “but I voted against Trump, so I don’t owe anything” is just giving up your agency. If he goes the worst path the gestapo aren’t going to stop to ask if you still feel like being political.