Just talked to someone at work and had to explain what tariffs are. I spoke with this person back in November and tried explaining all of this then, including Project 2025. At that time they said "yea, but both sides are bad." Tried to explain what that's exactly the sort of logic that gets the worst case scenario and that they have children and elderly parents to worry about but was brushed off. Some people are just perfectly happy to go through like with their heads buried deep in the sand.
I don't think they're happy to go through life that way, they're just so deluded they cling to the wishful thinking that it won't affect them and they can't get past that.
I don't know. Lots of people I talk to regularly (real life, not online) seem perfectly happy not knowing anything about politics and refusing to learn. It's really frustrating.
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u/BothRequirement2826 1d ago
A lot of Trump's policies, the tariffs being a perfect example, rely on the ignorance of the general population.
It's scary how tremendously well this has worked out for him.