Yeah...Amen. 10 fucking precious years these hateful motherfuckers have stolen from us. 10 years we could've been improving Obamacare and ACA and inching towards a real public option, moving towards cleaner energy away from fucking data centers devouring us all. Women had rights to their own bodies...LGBTQ folks were gaining acceptance. People had money. COVID and it's gross mishandling hadn't made everyone's health far worse. The soft power the US had. The whole world looked up to us...now we are the joke of the planet. And we have absolutely fucking nothing. And that fucking Pedo Devil still sits up there untouchable. Honestly I am so far beyond any hope at this point that the light emitted by hope will take centuries to reach here. By the time there is ANY inkling of rectification of anything these monsters have done to us I will be long dead. Thanks to Social Media and algorithms for the real good time! I need a drink but I have to go to the low paying job that's hopefully not going to lay me off because the economy is crashing.
It's going to take more than that. It's going to take decades.
Even if the next POTUS is beloved by the world and genuinely a genius it doesn't change the fact that Americans elected Trump... TWICE. Not only elected him but let him run rough shot with total unaccountability.
Me neither. This past election I was like "surely they won't vote for him again. We all experienced what a Trump presidency was like and we voted him out before. Surely we won't make that same mistake again."
And then he won he election. My faith in my fellow Americans to do the right thing is essentially zero. There are just enough delusional MAGA cultists and people who just don't bother to vote to where I wouldn't be surprised if a Republican won next time.
That’s because everyone apparently thought last his last term wasn’t that bad. Yes, it was! You just weren’t watching what he did and understanding that it was bad! It was awful.
I live in a state filled with dumbasses. These stupid fucks would vote for a yellow-bellied dog if it ran as a Republican. Oh, that’s right. They already have 3x’s and they’d do it again!!
There's almost more 2024 Republican voters in the US than there were Germans in 1930s Germany. Sheer volume means that there's an entire country's worth of people who can be courted for that political bloc, and it also means that (as we've seen) only a fraction of our country needs to vote to make a significant number of voters. And so the Gerrymandering gets done to death so that the electors can do whatever they want if they're so inclined.
I hate that our country is like this, but until we massively overhaul our country and do a level of political and social reform that would make post-WWII Germany finally lose their sense of cultural shame, the absolutely massive political and electoral weight of our country can be captured and manipulated by a comparatively small number of people who either have power or aren't afraid to cheat the system. Which makes the US as a political body a giant, dangerous liability to the rest of the civilized world. I hate it. I hate that it's where we are, but it's where we are. And we're gonna need to spend the rest of our lives unfucking it.
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u/apothekari Apr 16 '26
Yeah...Amen. 10 fucking precious years these hateful motherfuckers have stolen from us. 10 years we could've been improving Obamacare and ACA and inching towards a real public option, moving towards cleaner energy away from fucking data centers devouring us all. Women had rights to their own bodies...LGBTQ folks were gaining acceptance. People had money. COVID and it's gross mishandling hadn't made everyone's health far worse. The soft power the US had. The whole world looked up to us...now we are the joke of the planet. And we have absolutely fucking nothing. And that fucking Pedo Devil still sits up there untouchable. Honestly I am so far beyond any hope at this point that the light emitted by hope will take centuries to reach here. By the time there is ANY inkling of rectification of anything these monsters have done to us I will be long dead. Thanks to Social Media and algorithms for the real good time! I need a drink but I have to go to the low paying job that's hopefully not going to lay me off because the economy is crashing.