Storming the capitol was not a thoughtless action but an honest reaction. Given that people have been censored on all platforms for suggesting the exact same thing that the other major political party has been crying about for 4 years, what did they really expect to happen? In my view, this makes any and all violence that occurs as a result entirely the fault of the media, the tech industry, and the Democrats. Oppression is the most degrading form of violence. It's not just a cause of social unrest, it's literally a guarantee of reactionary violence.
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I live in one of those states. The state has mostly been turning blue because of three factors.
The first is super low corporate taxes bringing in tons of businesses, and then those businesses bringing in out of state workers who fit their corporate culture. I was at a coding bootcamp in a podunk town near where I live a couple years ago when I first noticed this. I couldn't believe how openly political everyone was there, and that they were all, not just left of center, but Clinton/Obama style corporate neoliberal Democrats. I'd never worked any place where politics was even a regular discussion, but here it was just everywhere.
The second reason is middle class white women have basically been brainwashed in this state by the mainstream media to a ridiculous degree. Many of them cannot discern the difference between propaganda and news. They don't notice the bias that has become layered into all reporting in the past 6 years or so.
The third factor is that there a lot of African Americans in the state and they are voting more, and while I think more of them are becoming Republicans than ever before, the majority have been led to believe that all Republicans are racists because the handful of racists left in the state are mostly Republican and that has historically been the case.
But I still think there was fraud going on the election that was responsible for the results. Biden is everything they accuse Trump of and worse, and I can't believe that most people would vote for the party of lockdowns, censorship, and race riots in a state that really has avoided having many of these issues so far.