He won because decent people are empathetic.

That's exactly right.

you are saying he got pity-voted in

Tucker Carlson made a good point - this is breaking ground - Fetterman is a pioneer. It won't be long until all US candidates are mental cases - in fact, wasn't that the case during the last presidential elections? An elderly with cognitive problems vs. an elderly with obesity/temper/ego issues?

It is also true that this is the very definition of the beginning of the country's collapse - when all your billionaire candidates are pity-voted in and the nation is governed by people who can't tie their own shoes due to cognitive/age-related/mental issues.

I just hope the world survives the US' downfall, because one of the mental cases you elect for POTUS position is bound to press the red button, especially when they usually surround themselves with other mental cases.

Probably. Almost as ridiculous as when people vote for trannies as homecoming queen just to give themselves some of that "I'm so progressive" dopamine hit.

When he began a rally introducing himself as John Fetterwoman, that got my vote

You don't care that he is soft on crime and wants to release criminals?

Would you let a dr who had a stroke operate on you out of compassion?

Do you really believe what you wrote? Do you really believe that only your side are "good, decent people," and anyone who votes differently from you isn't?

When I see the result of the election, it tells me that your side will vote for the Democrat no matter who he is. As long as the name has "Democrat" next to it, it gets your vote. That may be true about the other side, too, but until they run someone senile or crippled by a stroke, it's only guesswork.

More big picture, this feels like a clear next step in the decline of the U.S. Voters have been so trained to obey their party that they no longer vote based on a candidate's qualifications, they only vote to keep the other party out of office. This is how you end up with a Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

Rather than pretend that the other side is a bunch of bullies who make fun of stroke victims, and rather than pay yourself on the back for being one of the good, decent people, open your eyes to the truth. Both sides are made up of good, decent people who have differing ideas about the way the country ought to be run, and it's a tall order to make a case that someone with the limited mental capacity of John Fetterman belongs in a position of power.

OP probably has one of those idiotic "We Believe" signs in his yard. Signaling "I am a decent person and you're not" is his biggest priority. But putting a mentally impaired stroke victim in the Senate is sadistic to the poor bastard whose brain is scrambled. Putting a politician who has made it clear he is in favor of releasing violent criminals on the public is stupidly indecent to society.

He won because a lot of morons voted for him.