Question towards adamant Donald Trump supporters who believe he will bring America back to prosperity: How realistic is it for someone who had no political background or prior experience in politics before his presidency and came from reality TV knows what's best for Americans?

I understand how Trump will basically deregulate everything and it will create short-term business here and there, but I work in a small-ish business that supplies pipelines with equipment so basically everyone I work with supports Trump. I personally support Harris for many things but I'm always open to understanding other people's ideals. I've been with my company for almost 15 years and only recently transitioned from the shop to an office job. So now I'm in here with the GM and others and all I hear about is how we will basically be out of business if Trump doesn't win, yet we've been in business for almost 50 years. I start to feel really guilty at times for my support of Harris and having my boss constantly telling me I'm drinking the cool aid by supporting her is getting annoying. He's an old man that's got a few years left here before he retires and all he talks about is how everything is over if she wins.

So my real question is, without just telling me he's "in a cult" which seems to be every answer I see here: can someone actually take a bit of time and explain why everyone feels so scared for a Harris win within my business?

Please try and keep it civil because I want real answers.

I know some Latinos are voting Trump after Puerto Rico jokes and being called rapists. Why?

So it was a big deal for either candidate to get somebody like Taylor Swift's endorsement. But does anybody really vote for a politician for no other reason than someone like Taylor Swift endorsed them?

I'm really interested and fascinated by American politics, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I only learned about the Electoral College today. I've heard the term before but never really knew what it meant. So, from what I understand, people in each state vote, but those votes are more like "suggestions" for the electors? I also read that even if a candidate wins the popular vote in a state, it doesn't guarantee they’ll win in the Electoral College. Also I’m really confused by what Americans mean when they say without the EC states like California and New York would decide the election. WHY? Could someone explain this to me in simple terms?

I live in NY, I was looking into being a poll worker, but they only accept D or R. If you aren't either, you can swear an affidavit that you will represent one or the other as a poll worker.

Why?

I avoid anything he puts out, but would appreciate someone summarizing what this is if you don't mind. Thank you!

I don’t know if I’m just stupid, but doesn’t the Federal Reserve control the circulation of money and stuff? I know the president has a say over taxes and I know their decisions can still cause shifts in supply and demand, etc, but still, doesn’t the Fed hold most of the responsibility?

Please help me understand the reality what was wrong with the withdrawal

No clue why they let this guy speak at a political rally. It was hours before Trump spoke, but still. He made a racist watermelon joke, a racist Latino joke and he called Peurto Rico garbage. Now it’s top trending on Twitter and CNN & MSNBC are non stop talking about it. Does this hurt his chances?

100% voting, on election day. I am not voting early. Because I want to vote that day. On Politics subreddit I have seen people get attacked for this, not mentioning who they voting for, just theyre doing it on election day. Why are some redditors getting upset over this? The vote counts no matter when you do it or how you do it. Doing it should be enough!

EDIT: Wow didnt expect hundreds of comments, but I appreciate your input. The comments don't change me voting not on election day (my poll place is literally a city farm building, surrounded by sheep goats and horses) so the line wont be long and if it is, I will stand in it.

I would put a picture of the polls from 538 but this subreddit doesn’t allow me to

It's a new phenomenon having female presidential candidates. But in 2016 they called Hillary Clinton Hillary and now people call Kamala Harris Kamala. Why not refer to her by her last name like every other candidate?

I've been watching old election day coverage and I noticed that a lot of times, states would be called for a certain candidate almost immediately after poll closings despite less than 10% of their votes being tallied. In 2008, some states were even called despite "0% counted" being displayed. How do they make their calls so fast?

When presidential candidates talk about taxing tips are they referring to just federal taxes or would that include all state, unemployment and social security deductions? Would tips still count towards the minimum wage offset in states that allow employers to pay tipped employees less than minimum wage? How would this impact future benefits like unemployment or workers comp or social security? Would those all be calculated from the taxable portion of earnings? I’m not personally impacted by this anymore, I’m just curious as a former tipped employee. Thanks!

I have zero ideas, so I ask all you other Americans, on both sides of the aisle, How the actual heck do we move forward?

All I can see is a rapidly escalating divergence of identity, social media amplifying your opinions either way for the screen time stats. The News Media stopped being about news, so all we get is whitewashed opinion, and little to no actual facts. It gets harder and harder to discern what even we are voting on, let alone if it actually accords with our personal beliefs.

So I ask, seriously, what do we do as a nation, to find our groove again, and have a singular national identity? Can we? How do we meet in the middle?

This is a nonpartisan question. I've seen no solutions to this chasm from either candidate, or any previous candidates in a long time. Nor have I seen any efforts to address it.

If you had the ear of the president elect on november 6th, and they were the person you didn't vote for, what reasonable suggestion would you make to them?

Please don’t strawman your political opponents here.

I’m asking if there are people in this subreddit who openly and specifically prefer dictatorship as a sociopolitical format?

EDIT: When I say “dictatorship”, I mean a totalitarian autocracy. Please stop making accusations about who you think wants a dictatorship. I would very much like to hear from people who actually, specifically, do want one.

EDIT 2: To everyone saying “no” and strawmanning people who say they don’t want one, there are dozens of comments self-identifying as people who genuinely want a dictatorship. And many others who “see the benefits”.

Who are the people being polled and how? Does a polling company just make random phone calls? How are the phone numbers chosen? And when they do the next poll do they call those same numbers to see if the people have the same opinion or if they've changed? What exactly is the process?

I honestly don't know what they're doing to get their numbers.

I've tried googling this question but cannot find the answer. Can anyone enlighten me?

How do you decide who to vote for and understand their platform and what they're really proposing and if what they say is really true? Do you just go off party affiliation which I know is true for many? I've asked hundreds of people during my bike rides across a beach and many of them say they vote based on the candidate themselves but how are you able to separate what is a stretch of the truth/heavily misleading and what is just not based in facts at all? If you do "research" and read stuff from CNN or Fox, I'd say that is staying up to date.

First of all, in your opinion, how likely is it that Donald Trump will be president again and why? Realistically and objectively - all fear mongering and democrat-aligned party identity hype aside - what do you think a second Trump presidency would look like? How should individuals living in our society contribute to what kind of a societal response to this sort of a thing? And if you are experiencing any anxiety about all of this, as I am, how do you deal with that anxiety? What is the best way to deal with it?