Trump, the right wing, and billionaires are destroying America.
What’s this article doing not pointing fingers at the right people.
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The business plot wasn't treated as treason. They should have strung those rich fuckers up. Now the same sort of fuckers are going to succeed.
The son of their point man was a president. As was his son.
Should be ending their lines. Would save so many lives.
Nope, because it was rich people fucking with rich people. That’s ok.
America stepped onto this path with Regan, this is just the inevitable swan song of a process that Democrats didn’t have the balls to stop.
I mean, pre-Regan America still had much that could have been improved, it wasn’t perfect. But it gave its citizens one of the most prosperous eras in human history for the working class.
Regan winning re-election in every state but Minnesota resulted in the two parties adopting the exact same economic policies.
There was no viable alternative, so the economic inequalities that neoliberalism creates has run rampant for 40 years
Author can't accept this is exactly what maga voted for. The republican base, against their own interests, have wanted to strangle every facet of the federal gov for as long as I've been alive. They just finally got the supermajority and a leader both dumb and lacking empathy enough to make it happen.
I agree. The Republican goal has been to dismantle the government for decades. Maga just pushed it over the line to actually happen.
There's a lot gone already.
They’ll cry later when they realize they broke what they will want later but destroyed.
MAGA: “destroy the government!” Also MAGA: “The government isn’t paying my social security and I can’t afford my medications!”
Expect a tidal wave of "I can't believe the Democrats did this to me" as that unfolds.
Nah, they'll still blame immigrants, transgender athletes and blue haired woke snowflakes until they die.
They're toddlers
Toddlers are usually quick learners.
Yanks certainly aren't.
I don't think you understand what Yanks means
In my part of the world, it means "Americans"
Agreed, but that is a huge generalization to a large population. I am part of it, but I certainly don’t feel I have much influence in shifting political power to something that isn’t crazy and leaning authoritarian.
Do you have that kind of influence in your country?
My country had compulsory voting, which has prevented the crazies on the fringes, or predatory groups who pour money into the campaigns of politicians that they can control from rising to power
A yank is part of the northern states.
To the rest of the world, it's just another stupid 'Murican
We get the "Yankee" thing
We don't care though
You're all "yanks"
We know you're not all stupid and worthless, but too many of you are, and we wouldn't care, but' Murica makes their stupidity the rest of the world's problem
You're not much brighter, buttercup.
No see it's ok to generalize 300 million people as a cultural monolith this time.
It's always ok as long as its against Americans
There it is, that's the xenophobia used by right-wing politicians and corporate interests to divide the working class!
I agree. Also foreign idiots on lemmy
Our highest court has made sure that what you described by the crazies is how our government is controlled.
Oh, I know
America has always been a backwards, corrupt and hateful shit hole
The myth about how America came to be is lapped up by yanks, because they're indoctrinated from birth, and if they eventually learn the reality, it's rare for them to be able to think their way past a lifetime of propaganda
As opposed to every other European colony, that are totally at-grips with the genocidal horrors they inflicted on the people they displaced?
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Hmmm... Now, who would want to see America fall in grace against the rest of the world? It's a real head scratcher. Also, how could it happen from the top down? Really makes you think, eh?
The entirety of the global south, including but not limited to:
Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Every native american nation, The entirety of all modern states of Africa, Afghanistan Iraq, Iran, Syria, The Philippines, China, Indonesia....
Canada too 🙋♂️
If someone is a great person with minor flaws, you don't hold those against them and you always invite them to the bbq.
If someone is a piece of shit asshole all the time, you don't want them anywhere around you.
Yes, this is all happening as planned, by the tech oligarchs, who ... essentially have successfully turned the country into an outright corporatocracy.
The government still technically exists, but it is nearly totally directed by capitalists, who themselves are essentially just playing out ego fantasy power trip battles as to who can be the best John Galt.
This is the ideal 'libertarian' society, realized; techno-feudalism.
This is turning into Shadowrun-lite. Because in the world of Shadowrun, corporations run the show and the government is like second behind.
I mean that is every cyberpunk scenario from its very inception.
Something something ENEMIES something and DOMESTIC. With dementia, who can remember any of those oath things anyway?
I hope we get some cool countries out of this balkanization at least. Fingers crossed for Cascadia!
Will it be strong enough to hold off the Mormon theocracy in the Rockies though?
Good, the US needs a reckoning.
Optimistic of you to think the reckoning it gets will be the one it needs. Theres no mistake the US won't make again once someone thinks they can make money from it. If capitalism still stands nothing will fundamentally change. Maybe it buys another two or three election cycles.
Trump and his Nazis are definitely destroying this country
The conservatives and their party, the Republicans, are destroying this country, and are backed by extremist radicals like the Seven Mountains Mandate and Thiel and Curtis Yarvin and the authors of The Sovereign Individual and The Unhumans and so on.
These people need to be named. Talking about some nebulous thing like "the United States" in a headline without naming the guilty is just helping the enemies of the country. Sure, not too far into the article this current administration is named, but why not put that or the Republicans in the headline?
Yeah, we're well aware. We are trying to resist it, but the problem with Americans is that the Religious Right that operates this country, has socialized us since the Civil War to behave ourselves, and be polite at all times.
So while MAGA doesnt have any problem with abandoning their socialization and regressing to poop-flinging apes, the rest of us have an instinctual obsession with politeness, even to those who are proven to be evil.
Eventually, though, that politeness will wear out, and when that happens, and the rest of polite society is driven past the breaking point, the eruption will be... glorious.
Onto the "No shit, really?" pile.
No, Trump is destroying the USA.
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