it’s interesting to observe that Democrats are not stepping up their efforts to sway voters and win gerymandered districts, but rather “play politics”. There’s a distinct vacuum in US politics where working class has been completely abandoned by republicans and democrats, where republicans are busy enriching themselvesband democrats are busy enriching rich donors who in turn shower democrats (with small exceptions) in kickbacks etc. Whoever seizes workers can have next election, but no politician seems to be interested. It really looks like Idiocracy v1.0 is in the works.
Idiocracy is already here. Watch anyone on TV speak, even news broadcasters. Then go back and watch the same kind of thing but from like the 60s. Even reality or talk television. These days everyone sounds like they barely have two brain cells to rub together. I watched an interview the other day of Hunter Thompson and a Hell’s Angel from the 60s and the literal biker gangbanger sounded more eloquent than professional broadcasters do now.
People have been aspiring to stupidity and denigrating intelligence for so long that everyone today sounds like an idiot. Most places I have ever worked at are run by people who are hardly competent enough to do the base jobs of the people they are managing. We have arguments about plainly illogical political issues that should have obvious answers if people had reasoning skills anymore. “Make other countries pay their fair share with tarrifs!!1!1” meanwhile tariffs are paid for by you and I, the consumer.
We are already so far balls deep into idiocracy that people are too stupid to even recognize how stupid they are. And thus the cycle will beget more and more stupidity, since there is no intelligence left to aspire to anymore…
Why try to educate MAGAts when they willfully ignore the obvious right in front of their eyes?
Yeah they want one party rule so they can do whatever they want forever. People will get more and more upset with the things they do while in power but won’t be able to stop it so they’ll stop participating which will guarantee even more Republicans win. They want to make the Democrats non existent, they would have already made them illegal if they felt like they could.
The more they push the more I think the US will not last that much longer, maybe a decade, and then it’ll split into multiple countries. People who are liberal and leftist on the west coast can only be so useful if the feds ruin everything they do, so they could split off and make their own thing, as has been talked about more and more recently.
Pretty much Putin’s dream, Russia’s biggest adversary voluntarily and arbitrarily committing suicide.
(Or about as voluntary as most convenient suicides benefiting Putin.)
It would be the messiest split ever, considering there are blue economic strongholds in most of red leaning states, and red rural areas feeding the cities throughout the blue leaning. At a macro level all the states are co-dependent, everyone fails if the union fractures.
There is no clean way out of it. Split, civil war, fascist dictatorship crackdown, world war against the US, war with Mexico and Canada forcing the US collapse, sending every possible minority to a concentration camp and ruling for decades only to eventually collapse like all fascist dictatorships do. There is only messiness in the future.
I really wish more people saw it with this kind of clarity.
From an early age Americans are programmed to have an emotional attachment to the idea of a unified country, but the reality is most would be happier with governance being more localized and proportional.
So glad someone else feels this way. I’ve been pretty certain we’ve been headed for balkanization since the first election. This districting fight feels like a logical step on the way.
This country is too big and diverse to accept a turnip dictatorship much longer.
I don’t welcome the inevitable war that would follow a declaration of secession, but I happily look forward to a post-war Pacific States of America. It’s long overdue.
That’s kinda the point
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Any elections the US will have from here on out will just be for show, just like Russia and Nazi Germany. November 2024 was the last chance to prevent America’s descent into fascism and the orange fuckwit got more votes than every other Republican candidate this century.
The only way out from here is a general strike which will ultimately be subject to state-sanctioned violence against its own people, leading to a violent revolution. But it’ll take a lot more suffering amongst ordinary people to get to that point.
The population that is armed are Trump supporters and are too stupid to know how to use those firearms correctly. You know, gun safety is “woke.”
The left does nothjng but bleet like sheep, but when it actually matters, they don’t show up.
Liberals try to appease everyone and in turn accomplish nothing.
Centrists are the worst traitors as they go where their “feelings” tell them to rather than where the facts dictate.
Conservatives (the Liz Cheny types) could have stopped all of this madness but are too scared of being ostracized to do anything but fall in line.
The fascists love this but the fascists are too stupid to realize that the rich fascists are the only one benefiting while the poor fascists are their lapdogs that routinely fight against their self interests.
Mike Johnson looks like a South Park character already.
This is Because REPUBLICAN Voters ONLY Vote for the Candidates who REPRESENT their Values! Values like Deporting All Their Workers while ELIMINATING their Healthcare and RAISING the Prices of LITERALLY EVERYTHING!
Optimistic to think we got decades.
Future elections will just be for show anyways
Not if there isn’t a US house.
There will be. Keeping the US House around is to help legitimize fascism. “What do you mean we’re gutting the legislative branch? The US House and Senate are still there and you still voted for them”
There will be.
Not if the United States collapses.
This was planned from the very start. The Senate always existed to check the people.
I don’t think that will happen. They are running out of fingers to point fast, once they rule for two presidencies in a row and can’t point their grubby fingers at Democrats anymore they’ll be dealing with a full scale revolt. Their policies prevent them from lasting a decade because they are so harmful.
Counter point, republicans would love a revolt. They’ve been looking for a reason to expand their camps.
They want a revolt “of the left”, they don’t want starving and desperate citizens banding together no matter creed. And I’m tellin’ ya, they’re cooking up a recipe to get Mussolini’d with their own destructive and corrupt actions.
And the coward Americans are still taking this lying down
Where are the country paralizing months long protests against this to ensure democracy survives?
America and Americans are a joke
• Half of Americans are covered by health care from their employer
These are massive systemic problems, some designed with the very intent of keeping the necessary labor action from taking place.
You sound like an entitled 15 year old who has never held a job before.
Idiot.
Guys, what should we do? The guy who lives in a country with a massive social safety net and center left politicians who support labor protections said we’re a joke. Even though he has risked nothing and only has the barest inkling of what life must be like in America right now, I’m worried about his stinging criticism
Easy to demand people put their lives and livelihoods on the line while you sit safely in your nice little country where none of this shit is happening.
You’re a fucking joke.
