One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.
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Murshed Zaheed
“Many farmers voted for Trump [b/c] he promised less regulation and greater prosperity for America’s farmers. The hard truth … like most of the folks who voted for Trump, farmers failed to do their homework about the reality” of the Trump regime.
What betting on the farm & losing looks like. 😬
What betting on the farm & losing looks like. 😬
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What I want to know: why the f*[} the people in power who could have stopped this over the last 8+ years, didn’t?
This Kansas article:
“We are now living and working in an environment where the only constant is chaos.”
2017:
Bannon told Ronald Radosh that he viewed himself as an “American Nationalist” … another Lenin. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/chaos-presidency-brought-you-steve-bannon
But, then, The Dems had at least 4 decades to counter the "drown gov't in the bathtub" rhetoric and they failed to make a case for the work good gov't can accomplish. Too worried about offending the donor class is my guess.
https://kansasreflector.com/2023/01/21/why-do-right-wing-voices-dominate-the-am-dial-decades-of-change-cemented-shift/
But to your point, yes, it does remind me of that as well.
Senator Ruben Gallego made many good points in this interview, though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/magazine/ruben-gallego-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Oh, I remember it now. “Sophomoric.”
On the other hand, it has never been easier to get accurate information about the world around us, and so I also lay blame at the feet of the millions who refuse to do so.
we assume people will just inherently know to flock to accurate, reliable info
also I'm not saying people don't have agency and share responsibility for their own befuddlement
Everything is kind of rigged against nuance and understanding and informed consensus
It's not "easy" to get informed, especially if you're a rural American with a limited attention span
I do not mean formal education, I mean the ability to read, seek truth, and discern between facts and the pablum of easily-consumed lies.
If George Washington said "I cannot tell a lie," many Americans can no longer "tell the difference."
No. They were convinced by decades of propaganda hamering it home. Reagan did a lot. And then Bill Clinton acquiesced and amplified it when he declared "The era of big government is over"
& now complain about filing paperwork / costs to send their goods to Europe
Quite a few can only internalise by saying EU red tape, rather than the red tape they voted for
As though there's been corporate and oligarch owned media enabling it on repeat for 40+ years.
but they are about to find out, unfortunately
Case in point. MAD has been the underpinnings of US security for decades. If Xi or Putin wanted to do a first strike, this would be the time to do so! Absolute idiocy
seems about right
I just made this fact up, but *gestures at everything* I am unable to prove it wrong.
We can't undo THAT.
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/elon-musk-doge-2671144086-2671144086
Where did the farmers get their news. Who owns the media.
Were they really suckered or did they just like the part about sticking it to libs, people color etc.
And folks: do not for one sec believe they cared a hoot about where the food was going. Just cash!
And The lack of being in reality of the way their day to day lives work astounds me