>“There is no point in pretending that a man who believes that any election he loses is rigged, that the judicial system is rotten and corrupt, and that his political enemies belong in jail, is a believer in democracy,” Edward Luce wrote in the Financial Times.
But when half of the voting population potentially agrees with the man, isn’t disturbed enough not to vote for him by his comments and actions, or is simply too stupid to understand????
Because 40% of Americans are ignorant, have no education beyond high school, are afraid and prefer strongman tactics as endorsed by their Evangelical ministers.
We’ve been getting reports on this for years, I’d say it’s more that we’re burned out than unafraid. Not speaking for those who are on board with the takeover of course.
I don’t think it’s fair or correct to say we’re “sleepwalking” into it. The system is set up, via gerrymandering and the electoral college, to allow a determined political minority to “game the system” and remain in power even if a majority of voters oppose them. Turnout may have been at a record high in 2020, but Donald Trump has never had the support of a true majority of American voters. Not once.
Many of us may not be responding with the urgency history tells us we ought, but most of us know what’s happening. The ones who don’t are that favored political minority.
You can only shake your fist at the sky so hard.
I live in a metropolitan area of the US and it feels like we’re being dragged into a dictatorship by the uneducated mouth breathing bottom 48% of the populous
I hate these shitty headlines. (1) no one is sleepwalking into it. A third of America have become facist neo nazis and are cheering for it. (2) plenty are afraid. (3) those who aren’t are the dumb cultists who think Trump cares about them and is the second coming of Christ. They are literally too stupid to be afraid.
Six words:”But, it won’t affect me, right?”
These six words have been thought of and spoken throughout Human organization and where does it always lead?
Complacency; in want of being privileged, at best or ignored at minimum.
Both are illusions that are shattered.
Every damned time.
Edit: more words, punctuation
Because since the 1970s our country has been on a downward spiral with people sicker, broker, and stuck in a rat race. Anyway out seems like a win and centuries of White Capitalist propaganda have them looking at Trump as their ticket out.
Propaganda and the right wing grievance bubble.
Pretty much sums it up.
What are we supposed to do? We’ve been voting in special elections and the big one is next year. We’re not sleepwalking, we just can’t express our power until late 2024.
I hate these articles.
The problem isn’t the people who would vote against this bullshit, it’s the fascist Trump supporters who are putting us in this position.
Maybe a better phrasing would be that all the so called ‘checks and balances’ do not seem to be up to preventing America from just casually becoming a dictatorship. Plenty of us are doing our best to prevent it, but goddamn if that doesn’t seem like it may be enough.
…and too many people have forgotten that rights were fought for, not just granted – and that fight involved a lot of bloodshed.
We aren’t. 20% of us are cheering as we march towards it. 40% have been soo riddled with fear and anxiety since January 5th that we’re exhausted, and frustrated that our Politicians and Media seem soo relaxed about it. Our children and wives are losing their rights, Corporations and the Wealthy are squeezing this country like a wet dish towel, and Hitler is on the rise, but ya know, Biden’s a little old. The issue is that neither group is over 50%, so not enough to win on their own, and we need to count on flighty people, who may not be too involved in politics, or may be too busy to pay attention, and all our futures hinge on how they feel in the moment.
The crazy thing too, we knew Trump was a fraud a long time ago. He bankrupted 4 casinos, the Trump Taj Mahal in 1991, followed by Trump Plaza and Trump Castle in 1992 and later Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. in 2004. How is that even possible? Only an idiot could do this. Yet, MAGA says he is some business genius. LOL! He’s just the USA’s #1 conman. Wake up and smell the coffee!!!
Because they believe the dictatorship will allow them to openly hate and discriminate against brown people, immigrants, poor people, queer people, non-Christian people. It’s the fascist version of American exceptionalism. Being able to hate on others (and feel you are better than your neighbor) is more important than democracy in the eyes of a big chunk of the population.
According to recent polls, the candidate who is on the record saying that they will be a dictator on day one of his term is the front runner to be the next president.
He has a litany of legal suits around him defrauding the American people, from racist housing practises in the 1970s to his ‘university’ refusing refunds in the early 2010s.
He has repeatedly said he will refuse to accept the result of an election if he loses.
He has previously called for all Muslims to be barred entry from the country and implied that only ‘some’ Mexican migrants are good people.
In 2017, he gave a presidential pardon to a sheriff who was guilty of breaking a court order that demanded an end to the sheriff’s racist profiling tactics. That same sheriff had previously proudly called his county jail a ‘concentration’ camp.
He is currently being investigated for a massive amount of classified information going missing on his watch and then being discovered in his home after he has left office.
He is currently being investigated for his campaign to undermine the 2020 election result and illegitimately stop the peaceful transfer of power, with his tactics ranging from coercing election officials to browbeating senators *while their place of work was ransacked by his supporters, who chanted about hanging political opponents*. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in any state, with dozens of audits, state committee, and independent investigations.
He kept very few of his pledges from his last term as president. He didn’t drain the swamp; one of his last actions in office was to lift restrictions on his staffers and admin officials becoming lobbyists. He didn’t build ‘the wall’. He didn’t come up with a healthcare plan to replace Obamacare. He didn’t even investigate Hilary Clinton, let alone lock her up. The trade deficit with China continued to grow. Blue collar job growth remained at the same rate as before his term – as did job offshoring.
Is this the best the USA can produce in terms of leadership?
rational americans are aware and are worried
We are afraid.
I know people who have said they won’t vote for Biden because of his conduct on Israel-Gaza. One even suggested four more years of Trump would be an appropriate punishment for democrats in order to jolt them into finding their morals. I try to stress to these friends that there might not be another election if Trump wins next year. These people are operating as single-issue voters in a very dangerous year to do so. They are so focused on one issue and their moral righteousness that they can’t or won’t see the possible death of American democracy around the corner.
On top of that, Biden gets so much more hate than he deserves. It seems like most Americans aren’t aware of the good and progressive things he has done.
People think that politics is a game. They think of their chosen party as their football team and football has no real consequence for them in life so they think that politics has no consequence for them.
i love how journalists and people cannot figure out that for a lot of Americans their MATERIAL CONDITIONS DO NOT CHANGE with either a republican or democrat in charge. So they either opt out of voting or vote for the candidate who says they’ll blow up the system. And then you have people writing useless articles about people should be ashamed that they aren’t voting for democracy. when it’s the other way around, the politicians should meet the needs of the voters to EARN their votes, loyalties to a party are the reason we are in this situation in the first place.
Keep in mind that a lot of Americans struggle to get the basics food, water, shelter. So higher ideas like democracy, while I think its fucking nuts to take for granted, are not at the top of the needs list for a lot of Americans.
Also the poor are least likely to be able to vote anyway.
I feel like as Americans, we need to talk more about the Compromise of 1877. It’s a bit of history that is never talked about, and I think it gives us a disneyification of our own history of democracy.
we’re not asleep and we defeated the traitorous bastard once – we’ll do it again!
There are a shitload of uneducated bored Americans who think a dictatorship sounds simpler and exciting. They think they’re living in a TV show where they’re the main characters who will definitely not be fucked over.
They’re not afraid because a lot of them welcome a white, Christian nationalist, fascist state.
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Not exactly sleepwalking. More like sprinting.
>“There is no point in pretending that a man who believes that any election he loses is rigged, that the judicial system is rotten and corrupt, and that his political enemies belong in jail, is a believer in democracy,” Edward Luce wrote in the Financial Times.
But when half of the voting population potentially agrees with the man, isn’t disturbed enough not to vote for him by his comments and actions, or is simply too stupid to understand????
Because 40% of Americans are ignorant, have no education beyond high school, are afraid and prefer strongman tactics as endorsed by their Evangelical ministers.
We’ve been getting reports on this for years, I’d say it’s more that we’re burned out than unafraid. Not speaking for those who are on board with the takeover of course.
I don’t think it’s fair or correct to say we’re “sleepwalking” into it. The system is set up, via gerrymandering and the electoral college, to allow a determined political minority to “game the system” and remain in power even if a majority of voters oppose them. Turnout may have been at a record high in 2020, but Donald Trump has never had the support of a true majority of American voters. Not once.
Many of us may not be responding with the urgency history tells us we ought, but most of us know what’s happening. The ones who don’t are that favored political minority.
You can only shake your fist at the sky so hard.
I live in a metropolitan area of the US and it feels like we’re being dragged into a dictatorship by the uneducated mouth breathing bottom 48% of the populous
I hate these shitty headlines. (1) no one is sleepwalking into it. A third of America have become facist neo nazis and are cheering for it. (2) plenty are afraid. (3) those who aren’t are the dumb cultists who think Trump cares about them and is the second coming of Christ. They are literally too stupid to be afraid.
Six words:”But, it won’t affect me, right?”
These six words have been thought of and spoken throughout Human organization and where does it always lead?
Complacency; in want of being privileged, at best or ignored at minimum.
Both are illusions that are shattered.
Every damned time.
Edit: more words, punctuation
Because since the 1970s our country has been on a downward spiral with people sicker, broker, and stuck in a rat race. Anyway out seems like a win and centuries of White Capitalist propaganda have them looking at Trump as their ticket out.
Propaganda and the right wing grievance bubble.
Pretty much sums it up.
What are we supposed to do? We’ve been voting in special elections and the big one is next year. We’re not sleepwalking, we just can’t express our power until late 2024.
I hate these articles.
The problem isn’t the people who would vote against this bullshit, it’s the fascist Trump supporters who are putting us in this position.
Maybe a better phrasing would be that all the so called ‘checks and balances’ do not seem to be up to preventing America from just casually becoming a dictatorship. Plenty of us are doing our best to prevent it, but goddamn if that doesn’t seem like it may be enough.
…and too many people have forgotten that rights were fought for, not just granted – and that fight involved a lot of bloodshed.
We aren’t. 20% of us are cheering as we march towards it. 40% have been soo riddled with fear and anxiety since January 5th that we’re exhausted, and frustrated that our Politicians and Media seem soo relaxed about it. Our children and wives are losing their rights, Corporations and the Wealthy are squeezing this country like a wet dish towel, and Hitler is on the rise, but ya know, Biden’s a little old. The issue is that neither group is over 50%, so not enough to win on their own, and we need to count on flighty people, who may not be too involved in politics, or may be too busy to pay attention, and all our futures hinge on how they feel in the moment.
The crazy thing too, we knew Trump was a fraud a long time ago. He bankrupted 4 casinos, the Trump Taj Mahal in 1991, followed by Trump Plaza and Trump Castle in 1992 and later Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. in 2004. How is that even possible? Only an idiot could do this. Yet, MAGA says he is some business genius. LOL! He’s just the USA’s #1 conman. Wake up and smell the coffee!!!
Because they believe the dictatorship will allow them to openly hate and discriminate against brown people, immigrants, poor people, queer people, non-Christian people. It’s the fascist version of American exceptionalism. Being able to hate on others (and feel you are better than your neighbor) is more important than democracy in the eyes of a big chunk of the population.
According to recent polls, the candidate who is on the record saying that they will be a dictator on day one of his term is the front runner to be the next president.
He has a litany of legal suits around him defrauding the American people, from racist housing practises in the 1970s to his ‘university’ refusing refunds in the early 2010s.
He has repeatedly said he will refuse to accept the result of an election if he loses.
He has previously called for all Muslims to be barred entry from the country and implied that only ‘some’ Mexican migrants are good people.
In 2017, he gave a presidential pardon to a sheriff who was guilty of breaking a court order that demanded an end to the sheriff’s racist profiling tactics. That same sheriff had previously proudly called his county jail a ‘concentration’ camp.
He is currently being investigated for a massive amount of classified information going missing on his watch and then being discovered in his home after he has left office.
He is currently being investigated for his campaign to undermine the 2020 election result and illegitimately stop the peaceful transfer of power, with his tactics ranging from coercing election officials to browbeating senators *while their place of work was ransacked by his supporters, who chanted about hanging political opponents*. There has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in any state, with dozens of audits, state committee, and independent investigations.
He kept very few of his pledges from his last term as president. He didn’t drain the swamp; one of his last actions in office was to lift restrictions on his staffers and admin officials becoming lobbyists. He didn’t build ‘the wall’. He didn’t come up with a healthcare plan to replace Obamacare. He didn’t even investigate Hilary Clinton, let alone lock her up. The trade deficit with China continued to grow. Blue collar job growth remained at the same rate as before his term – as did job offshoring.
Is this the best the USA can produce in terms of leadership?
rational americans are aware and are worried
We are afraid.
I know people who have said they won’t vote for Biden because of his conduct on Israel-Gaza. One even suggested four more years of Trump would be an appropriate punishment for democrats in order to jolt them into finding their morals. I try to stress to these friends that there might not be another election if Trump wins next year. These people are operating as single-issue voters in a very dangerous year to do so. They are so focused on one issue and their moral righteousness that they can’t or won’t see the possible death of American democracy around the corner.
On top of that, Biden gets so much more hate than he deserves. It seems like most Americans aren’t aware of the good and progressive things he has done.
People think that politics is a game. They think of their chosen party as their football team and football has no real consequence for them in life so they think that politics has no consequence for them.
i love how journalists and people cannot figure out that for a lot of Americans their MATERIAL CONDITIONS DO NOT CHANGE with either a republican or democrat in charge. So they either opt out of voting or vote for the candidate who says they’ll blow up the system. And then you have people writing useless articles about people should be ashamed that they aren’t voting for democracy. when it’s the other way around, the politicians should meet the needs of the voters to EARN their votes, loyalties to a party are the reason we are in this situation in the first place.
Keep in mind that a lot of Americans struggle to get the basics food, water, shelter. So higher ideas like democracy, while I think its fucking nuts to take for granted, are not at the top of the needs list for a lot of Americans.
Also the poor are least likely to be able to vote anyway.
I feel like as Americans, we need to talk more about the Compromise of 1877. It’s a bit of history that is never talked about, and I think it gives us a disneyification of our own history of democracy.
we’re not asleep and we defeated the traitorous bastard once – we’ll do it again!
There are a shitload of uneducated bored Americans who think a dictatorship sounds simpler and exciting. They think they’re living in a TV show where they’re the main characters who will definitely not be fucked over.
They’re not afraid because a lot of them welcome a white, Christian nationalist, fascist state.