Exactly - the fact that some of the dumbest people in the country basically won the long game against the entire judicial system and every democratic guardrail says something about the state of our democracy...
You can blame Garland and you can blame Biden for naming him and you can blame the cringey email lady for not being an Obama level rockstar but everything comes back to voters being too fucking stupid and deluded to recognize very very basic reality.
Why should the average American take the threat of trump seriously if the democrats don’t? By not prosecuting trump for his insurrection they told the American people this wasn’t a big deal. And they listened. And now dems like Fetterman are completely bending the knee.
i dont look forward to the bewildered rage of his followers after his inevitable betrayal of them
anymore than i relate to or understand the dumbfounded confusion from those on the other side
that cant or refuse to understand how it all could've happened
Not only did Trump's insurrection succeed 4 years later in overthrow of USA,
but also,
RUSSIA WON THE COLD WAR!
It just took 33 years longer than the fall of the USSR on 25.Dec1991, when the Soviet hammer & sickle flag lowered for last time over the Kremlin.
Part of me wants to see it break up, putting the fash behind the borders they so crave. Another part of me recognises how difficult that would be for those who aren’t complete pieces of shit who just happen to live next to the scum.
The Democrats need to learn not to bring a knife to a gun fight. Because of January 6, they were so determined to do the right thing to be opposite of GOP.
But we should’ve gone with the 14th amendment. People are gonna die because of the SOB.
You are right. We do need to keep our heads up. I’m going to criticize the crap outta them the next four years, though. Oh I’m so excited to do so. Sucks we have to go through this though.
What? This is about to be a generations long dark age we probably will never recover from and these guys have been training and waiting for this scenario to enact violence while everyone left of George Bush has been unilaterally disarming themselves.
Depressing/more depressing--who can say? Until Trump becomes president he can say whatever he wants, That doesn't make it so. Think of all his rants in the courthouse--not a word inside the courtroom where he could only tell the truth. I know, I know. I'm relying on rational thought.
I want to stress that Kamala impressed me. She was a much better candidate than I expected.
However, at the end of the day, the Democrats just don't excite a significant portion of the electorate. Trump won with fewer voters than he had when he lost in 2020.
Man, the fall of any civilization is always such a mood. That’s why I console myself by listening to fall of civilizations podcast. It’s happened to the best of us. Over and over and over again
We needed to do a bunch of political theater first, to make us feel like America wasn't just a failed experiment, show us that there WERE, in fact, consequences...
Right up till they ran out the clock.
Ofc that’s more depressing. abd the dems are patting themselves on the back that they are saying “here you are sir, right this way sir” when two seconds ago they were all “if you protest against genocide, and make us lose you bring destruction upon democracy “
Absofuckinglutely what’s gonna happen exactly if they actually do that? Shits gonna get worse? We’re talking abt dealing with deranged psychotic bullies there is no high road to take. That’s a fantasy. Israel did this for years. Ppl are only now waking up to that mistake and it’s way too late
Not a single person on the left is patting themselves on the back today. Zero.
We need ranked-choice voting real bad, but today it is a two-party system. If you don't vote for the major candidate closest to your own views, you are helping the other candidate. It's crappy, but that's reality today.
Dems lost because they are a garbage party that gaslit their voters that Biden was a viable candidate like it’s weekend at Bernie’s until it was way too late. They lost because they haven’t tried to win since 2008
We'll never know, but I have a hard time believing Harris could have overcome the racism/misogyny + anti-incumbent sentiment because stuff is more expensive than it used to be. Trump never had a viable answer for making stuff cheaper, but that is apparently unimportant.
Ofc he doesn’t. it’s not abt that. What the right has figured out that the dems haven’t cuz challenging capital, is tapping into ppls emotional experience and acknowledging their anxieties. Dems do the opposite they say “everything is great trump will ruin it” >>
If ppl don’t feel like shit is great they will not believe you and they will easily want a target for their anxieties. Ofc trump won’t fix the economy ppl know who he is and he still won. How many times does this need to happen and in how many countries for strategy to change?
Well, dems opted for a Kamala when they could have Nina Turner, who is better in all senses than Kamala will ever be, but... Being to the left of center is the unforgivable sin in the US.
As someone who has read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" many times over the decades, the parallels since '16 have always been disturbing and it hasn't gotten better.
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You can blame Garland and you can blame Biden for naming him and you can blame the cringey email lady for not being an Obama level rockstar but everything comes back to voters being too fucking stupid and deluded to recognize very very basic reality.
This, on top of 20+ years of Fox News and other right wing outlets funded by billionaires to keep the public stupid.
This is a very long game.
It is not the fruit Republicans wanted, but they only care about standards as much as they have to.
Instead nearly half of US voters saw that and said "yeah, that's fine."
anymore than i relate to or understand the dumbfounded confusion from those on the other side
that cant or refuse to understand how it all could've happened
but also,
RUSSIA WON THE COLD WAR!
It just took 33 years longer than the fall of the USSR on 25.Dec1991, when the Soviet hammer & sickle flag lowered for last time over the Kremlin.
AMERICA HAS FALLEN TO ITS OWN STUPIDITY.
But we should’ve gone with the 14th amendment. People are gonna die because of the SOB.
However, at the end of the day, the Democrats just don't excite a significant portion of the electorate. Trump won with fewer voters than he had when he lost in 2020.
Are the voters apathetic? Maybe.
Right up till they ran out the clock.
We need ranked-choice voting real bad, but today it is a two-party system. If you don't vote for the major candidate closest to your own views, you are helping the other candidate. It's crappy, but that's reality today.
In a democracy, the voters would be active players.