Trump is precisely the result of America’s history. This is what our history has led to. Like quite literally. If our history and institutions and economic and political system couldn’t produce Trump and enable his actions they wouldn’t have. They did. Twice.
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Perhaps we shall reflect on centuries of American norms and how an enormously powerful dumbshit white aristocrat relates to those norms
Trump reflects divisions, not destiny. He’s a choice, not an inevitability.
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I don’t forgive evils. But your parents were never superheroes, they & you were always flawed. Highlighting only that aspect of you isn’t who you are either. That’s reality not naïveté.
Maybe you can list the (real) humans & systems without flaws?
Now a strawman. (I didn’t say nor imply the Third Reich was A-OK nor use a statement that can forgive them)
With your “logic,” we should judge you the worst person on Earth for doing this; no?
Instead of addressing my point, you attack me with sarcasm & mockery to discredit me.
Argue against my point. Otherwise, bad faith.
Because it's a fantastic documentary, and it can help you understand why Trump's administration was an inevitability of neoliberal austerity politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to72IJzQT5k&t=17
One thing you didn't include that the Adam Curtis documentary details is the withdrawal of the left from politics.
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Most Dems don’t support “Imperialism,” but U.S. foreign policy under both parties has involved military presence & global influence.
Yes, political parties aren’t acting with citizens interests.
The criticism is real.
4 of them went to their graves with the belief that the American people would fail to keep the Republic they had been given.
What we need is to get rid of all ability at patriarchy & have women-only societies that last a total of 1 generation.
It is really quite sad that youth think finding flaws (very easy) in an imperfect world illuminates the person or system was “bad.”
Cartoon superheroes are flawed. People read them because they relate; it is real to have imperfection.
FDR interned Japanese Americans based on their race, and allowed the construction of Mount Rushmore on Native American land.
Teddy didn't think of Natives as human, and his policies reflected that.
If we judged you or me by only our worst deeds, we would be on the list of the worst people of all time.
This idea that I can find flaws, so they are bad is wrong; again, naïveté.
Everyone has done bad things. If we were only judged by our worst moments, without considering the rest of who we are, we’d all seem like terrible people. But that wouldn’t be fair or accurate.
We love to pretend to be high-minded and fair, but we're the country that declared all men to be created equal, then built our economy on enslaved labor, on land taken from indigenous people we wiped out to get- and then we tried to whitewash that instead of facing how morally awful that was
Our politics is very much a contest of praising the emperor's cool clothes even though he doesn't have any
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
"Governors choose senators."
"Only white, land-owning men can vote."
And, of course, "It is acceptable for said white, wealthy land-owners to keep slaves on their property."
Definitely didn't just fall out of the coconut trees.
The aberration is that sex machine Will Stancil can't see anything but his privilege
The Dems want to paint rainbows on it, the republicans want to go back to segregated seating but what we should be doing is switching to fucking trains
I've been saying that 2016 showed us who Trump was. 2024 showed us who *we* were.
This special fucking time.