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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
Trump, the right wing, and billionaires are destroying America.
What’s this article doing not pointing fingers at the right people.
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.
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
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?
You are describing Libertarians. Yes, that was a sect of the Republican cult in the past, but now they are mostly fascist. Government social spending is bad, but they want military and law enforcement granted MORE power. They want people they don’t like to suffer and or die. Both over seas and domestically. Those are the morons. The rich want protection of their wealth and free reign over basically everything.
No, they’re describing Regan republicans. Don’t you remember how he deregulated everything? Told everyone “government is the problem”? And that if we didn’t tax the rich, the wealth would “trickle down” to the average American?
To this day there are still people who believe in this bullshit.
I'll be blunt, I've never actually met a libertarian by the definition of libertarian.
I found the easiest way to find out. Ask about gay marriage and abortion, they'll want them outlawed, want the government stepping in.
Libertarians were just Republicans who wanted to smoke weed, and now that Republicans are cool with weed they don't really have anything left.
I used to be a Libertarian. The first time I voted, I voted Libertarian down the line. I did grow up a Republican since I am a white male from a middle class background and it’s traditional for white males to be Republican in this country. However, like you said, I liked smoking weed and drinking, plus I hated cops and came to view war as a tremendous waste of money, resources and human life. My Republican upbringing had me believing that taxes were strangling the economy as well. So I figured gubmint bad. Republicans may say that too, but they love war and hate human rights when applied to people they don’t like. They want a “strong” government to hold down undesirables and conquer and control the rest of the world. Fascists. That is the difference. I’m very liberal now. I have lived through a lot of things in the real world and now realize that those veiwpoints are unrealistic and awful respectively.
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.
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?
Something something ENEMIES something and DOMESTIC. With dementia, who can remember any of those oath things anyway?
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.
Sometimes you just need to burn the forrest down... (batman)