So many conservatives had their brains utterly broken by Obama winning the WH, twice.
Him winning the Nobel Peace Prize only compounded their meltdowns. The fact that we had Dump right after Obama is likely because of their collective meltdown. They often tell on themselves, and pretty much say as much: "we had to vote for donnie after Obama, because { something something radically changed America } " - typical DARVO shit.
And Dump’s brain was probably broken the most. He doesn’t understand why he doesn’t have one - he’s white and he was in the WH 2x now. Why does he not have one, but the black president does?
Trump does not understand nor care about the meaning behind any of these shiny baubles he covets like a 5 year old. He whined that he couldn’t award himself the Medal of Honor for fuck’s sake.
You’re partially right. The issue is that most Americans seem to be content with conservative leaders while things are good - both culturally and economically.
And when things turn to shit, like they always do with conservative leaders, they will vote in a progressive one and “put up” with progressive policies - which are usually long term helpful - until they fix that shit.
And the moment things are looking better, they go right back to conservatives.
You can look back the past 60 years and the pattern is clear: conservative presidents and congress emerge when the economy is good, they’re handed a golden package that would literally keep improving if they literally did nothing, but nevertheless they came in, fucked shit up, caused a recession, that triggered a progressive leader who came in and fixed it, then immediately once the economy was back on track, another conservative was voted in…
The only outlier would be Bush W, who got voted in right at the dot-com bubble burst, and stayed on until the 2007-08 crisis that got Obama elected
I doubt it will be fixed without a major shift in the average American attitude. Yall over the pond still put too much emphasis on “everyone to their own devices”, rugged individualism ideology. It clearly doesn’t work.
But for the average American to understand that uplifting the lowest of the society literally helps EVERYONE (except the ultra wealthy capitalists) to a better life. Americans need to understand that chasing the possibility of becoming one of the elites, one of the billionaires - which, let’s be honest, is a daydream at best for 99.999% of the population - is not what life should be about. You don’t have to have 80%+ of the country suffering just to enable 0.001% to live like kings and the 19.99% to live an okay life. We have the technology, the science, the ability to ensure that baseline quality of life for literally everyone on this planet.
It just needs to come down to everyone having the base understanding that it’s not the [insert today’s favourite minority group to alienate]s causing their issues, but the capitalists seething the culture war so they can get richer.
And Dems are the problem too. They’re just as deep in the shit as the Republicans. Both parties need to be disbanded, most members banned from holding a public office, and then a reform wave of progressives needs to happen - ban lobbying, ban financial donations above a certain amount (I’d say $1000 per person per year is a valid limit), strict campaigning guidelines, and strict penalties for not delivering campaign promises. Keep your politicians in check, have a proper recall procedure, term limits, transparency in financials as a baseline, and so on.
So many conservatives had their brains utterly broken by Obama winning the WH, twice.
Him winning the Nobel Peace Prize only compounded their meltdowns. The fact that we had Dump right after Obama is likely because of their collective meltdown. They often tell on themselves, and pretty much say as much: "we had to vote for donnie after Obama, because { something something radically changed America } " - typical DARVO shit.
And Dump’s brain was probably broken the most. He doesn’t understand why he doesn’t have one - he’s white and he was in the WH 2x now. Why does he not have one, but the black president does?
Trump does not understand nor care about the meaning behind any of these shiny baubles he covets like a 5 year old. He whined that he couldn’t award himself the Medal of Honor for fuck’s sake.
You’re partially right. The issue is that most Americans seem to be content with conservative leaders while things are good - both culturally and economically.
And when things turn to shit, like they always do with conservative leaders, they will vote in a progressive one and “put up” with progressive policies - which are usually long term helpful - until they fix that shit.
And the moment things are looking better, they go right back to conservatives.
You can look back the past 60 years and the pattern is clear: conservative presidents and congress emerge when the economy is good, they’re handed a golden package that would literally keep improving if they literally did nothing, but nevertheless they came in, fucked shit up, caused a recession, that triggered a progressive leader who came in and fixed it, then immediately once the economy was back on track, another conservative was voted in…
The only outlier would be Bush W, who got voted in right at the dot-com bubble burst, and stayed on until the 2007-08 crisis that got Obama elected
Most definitely. Problem now is he has caused so much damage that it will probably take decades to recover from it.
I doubt it will be fixed without a major shift in the average American attitude. Yall over the pond still put too much emphasis on “everyone to their own devices”, rugged individualism ideology. It clearly doesn’t work.
But for the average American to understand that uplifting the lowest of the society literally helps EVERYONE (except the ultra wealthy capitalists) to a better life. Americans need to understand that chasing the possibility of becoming one of the elites, one of the billionaires - which, let’s be honest, is a daydream at best for 99.999% of the population - is not what life should be about. You don’t have to have 80%+ of the country suffering just to enable 0.001% to live like kings and the 19.99% to live an okay life. We have the technology, the science, the ability to ensure that baseline quality of life for literally everyone on this planet.
It just needs to come down to everyone having the base understanding that it’s not the [insert today’s favourite minority group to alienate]s causing their issues, but the capitalists seething the culture war so they can get richer.
And Dems are the problem too. They’re just as deep in the shit as the Republicans. Both parties need to be disbanded, most members banned from holding a public office, and then a reform wave of progressives needs to happen - ban lobbying, ban financial donations above a certain amount (I’d say $1000 per person per year is a valid limit), strict campaigning guidelines, and strict penalties for not delivering campaign promises. Keep your politicians in check, have a proper recall procedure, term limits, transparency in financials as a baseline, and so on.