"We can be realistic about how dark things have gotten and retain the hope necessary to fight what could well be a long, even generational struggle to reclaim American democracy." Unsettling overview of how off the rails everything has gotten: - ThreadSky

gregsargent.bsky.social • 1 day ago

"We can be realistic about how dark things have gotten and retain the hope necessary to fight what could well be a long, even generational struggle to reclaim American democracy."

Unsettling overview of how off the rails everything has gotten:

Reposted from Alan Elrod

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

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oeishik.bsky.social•1 day ago

The harm being done now, we may never be able to completely erase. It is another shameful period in our history. https://youtu.be/yVK75OHqDXo

beihai.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is America's version of the Great Leap Forward (economically) and the Cultural Revolution (substitute trans for capitalists)
Trump has rolled up a shitton of crazy in less than 3 months.
Trump and Mao are surprisingly similar; charismatic degenerate sociopathic narcissistic morons.

radioman49.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes very mad at Trump for extremely goid reasons etc

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is the critical point—for a substantial plurality of men, the line between cosplay and real-life villainy has completely dissolved.
They view harm to an innocent as hilarious irony; the act of *causing* that harm is perceived as no more substantial than playing a prank.

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•1 day ago

Since this is blowing up, allow me to suggest everyone read these other important studies, which I think work in context with @aselrod.bsky.social's piece to show more about how our country got here (thread):
https://bsky.app/profile/lovewinzalways.bsky.social/post/3lj3phcfezk25

mapablue.bsky.social•1 day ago

today is a good day to get in the streets to protest the banality of evil that saturates the ruling regime, and to build up resistance to this evil with friends and neighbors.

furtherexchange.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m 60. I will never see America return to be a normal country. It will take half a century.

kittywampuss.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I’m 61. I intend to live long enough to see us at least turn the corner. I am ornery AF and I hope a mixture of love, spite, and luck will let me stick around and keep advocating for what is good, right, and true.

wenleh.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The hostile takeover of the United States government we are now living through, with the full collusion of the Republican Party, reflects years of effort by Trump, a convicted felon, to create an environment propitious to smash-and-grab governance.
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat

kathleencoy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Your 401k....all this tariff bullshit is the result of a fictional character made up by Peter Navarro to serve as an " economic expert" to prop up Navarro's book! THIS TARIFF CRAP IS BASED ON NAVARRO'S IMAGINARY EXPERT. https://youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?si=evMNqgYQWL3vjzND

texasgeologist.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Atlantic: Trump Is Gaslighting Us
Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/signalgate-trump-administration-messaging/682308/

chasmaine.bsky.social•21 hours ago

History proves that during times of economic distress (e.g. 2008, 2020), the rich get richer fast — while middle and lower income people work years to get back where they started.

Trump’s tariffs are going to hit workers hard for the next decade.

https://www.thestreet.com/retirement-daily/retirement-research/2008-financial-crisis-continues-to-impact-the-lower-middle-class

anna0612.bsky.social•1 day ago

Americans have not gone mad, as Donnie and the Trumpee's were expecting us to have. Our children, our grandchildren, our communities, our systems, our veterans, librarians,

anna0612.bsky.social•1 day ago

and elderly deserve so much better. By the power vested to WE by the Constitution of the United States, we invoke Congress and the Senate to act.

anna0612.bsky.social•1 day ago

And if the won't, it is our rightful, lawful duty to prevent all the madness and take our country and our home back from those quacks in the White House and government seats.

lbhave.bsky.social•1 day ago

Excellent piece

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