Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us | Robert Reich

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/29/american-reckoning?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

31 comments

  1. I’ve heard this one. They elect Trump again at the end.

  2. Only real change will happen if enough voterst get off their butt this time and get to the polls.

  3. Is it though? I feel like in the end they are going to elect a democrat by a little margin and everything is going to happen again, nothing the democrats do is good enough anything the republicans do can be forgiven.

  5. I’m this thread, defeatist BS meant to urge the disenfranchisement of people who care.

    The wake of Trump’s devastating presidency is by far the best time to enact real change. People are pissed and every measure of that is showing that the cult is a minority.

    Vote in primaries. Make the changes we need happen… And if/when the elections show themselves to be tampered with, be prepared to take action.

    Government only functions with the consent of the governed. Saying it’s too late is just giving in.

  6. Please for the love of our world and everything precious let the veil be lifted!!!

  8. The fact they fell asleep at the wheel tells us everything we need do know. Liberals are only pro womens rifts, pro lgbt, anti war, anti Epstein, pro Gaza, pro Medicare for All when on social media so they get upvotes.

    They don’t show up with any consistency when it comes to actually voting. They don’t care. This mess is 100% on the voter. The youth of America loves Trump. They love this chaos.

  9. The functional literacy rate in the U.S. is so low that a real reckoning is unlikely…many people wouldn’t even recognize what it means.

  10. Lol. A recession/depression needs to happen before this thing gets more swing statey.

    On top of that, Dems will need to fix the housing problem on their watch for there to be a full fledged flip

  11. What are the waking up from? Trump is just the final symptom of a history of violence and anti-intellectualism that began with the very first settlers.

  12. Idk man. Nearly everyone I know now has turned pretty far right (and I live in California, San Francisco).

    Maybe it’s different in the rest of the country.

  13. Doubt it. Peasants might complain but they are cowards.

  14. Which is why there won’t be an election come November. Some attack or “concern” or something specifically orchestrated to give them a reason not to have an election.

  15. I too hope the US fixes its horribly broken system, but I fear that the best we can hope for is a democratic victory that once again leads to nothing changing and then Trump 2.0 will emerge.

    Reich is correct that Trump is a symptom and not a cause.

  17. We absolutely should still vote and organize and donate for the midterm and the eventual general election, which are both scheduled to happen. I’m not saying give up at all.

    It’s naive ignorance, *dangerous* ignorance, to assume it will happen and be ok. This clique of Nazi scum has accumulated an awful lot of criminal and moral liability to ever realistically consider allowing a peaceful transfer of power to threaten them. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. ✌️

  18. ‘A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.”
    — Lewis on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act

  20. When will Americans learn. These headlines and talking heads are so delusional. No one is “waking up”.

  21. I want to believe this, but sadly history has shown that this is simply not going to happen, the average voter is a moron and cannot grasp even the concept of a bigger picture, a bigger world beyond just themselves in tha immediate, singular, moment.

    Until Americans en masse are able to actually understand how this world, their day to day lives, the lives of others, all major economies worldwide, are all interconnected and depend on one another, we will never change.

  23. The big difference between now and when MLK was able to show the atrocities on the nightly news, is that the right wing controls over 50% of the broadcast licences.

    Trump is trying to take away the FCC license of any news organization that disagrees with him.

  24. If all the fucking doomers in this thread got together and used their collective effort…

    …they wouldn’t get anything useful done but at least they would stop shitting up the internet for a little while.

  25. They ARE the minority they are just so loud and they have money creating the effect they are a majority. THEY ARE NOT

  26. Trump has smashed the world order. The USA no longer has allies, half of the world is on the brink of war and we are charging full steam ahead towards global hyper warming. The Democrats will do little to nothing to change any of that, they will as usual focus on pandering to their lobbyists and the kleptocracy. 

    A sea change in politics is needed. A leader unlike any we have seen before. But Americans will always vote for the guy who promises them lower taxes and other pipe dreams.

  28. this sub constantly:
    – MAGA IS MELTING DOWN

    – IS THIS THE END OF TRUMP?

    – AMERICANS ARE WAKING UP

    reality:

    nothing happens

  31. They’re waking up huh? No, they’ve always known what has been going on for decades, they just choose to play dumb.

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