Muslim voters disillusioned with President Biden’s position on Israel are facing the prospect of a difficult choice in 2024.

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    1 year ago

    This article says that a higher percentage of Muslims voted for Trump in 2020 than did in 2016. Is it really far fetched to think that percentage could continue to rise?

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      And their stupidity had nothing to do with being Muslim. I can assure you that stupidity runs deep through much of the Human species.

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        Okay, so then why wasn’t there an even distribution of this stupidity?

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            Demographics across the spectrum of humanity.

            Trump didn’t see a general increase of votership across the board, or he would have won, right? So it seems silly to hand wave it away as just “humans being stupid”.

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              That presupposes they are independent factors. The more likely case rather, is that certain demographics attract stupid people. Trump famously said, “I love the poorly educated!” When a choice is involved, such as trump/Biden or dem/rep, we don’t need to see an even distribution of the population within those choices. With religion, often the smarter you are the better chance of you self selecting out of religion.

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                So you’re saying that their being stupid is more likely to cause them to be Muslim?

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              "Evil or Stupid? I’m not sure which is more dangerous. "
              “Stupid! Evil only gets uppity every once in a while. Stupid is with you 24/7.”

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      It’s because people see Trump as a chance to make America a theocracy… and well, both Christians and Muslims have traditionally been keen on theocracies for some reason.

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          My opinion is people wishing for theocracies are merely using religion as an excuse for control. Kind-hearted religious people adapt their religious views. Mean-spirited ones hide behind their religion as an excuse to do bad things.

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            I think there’s more here at play than theocracy. I don’t know why more Muslims supported Trump the second time around but something is causing them to support someone who has a track record of being hostile to them.