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People that are dumbfounded just haven’t been paying attention.
it's so incredibly frustrating reading americans thoughts on this stuff. like you just stroll over to virtually any reddit thread regarding anything the administration is doing and it's always "this must be illegal" or "it's happening" and what have you. Like they still don't get it. "I can't believe they're doing what they said they were going to do, I hope someone stops them" - proceeds to keep doom scrolling.
And then you have the democrats that insist the system isn't broken, insist that if they continue to play by the rules than the other side will also eventually decide that the rules should be followed...no, that's not how this work. A cheater doesn't suddenly have a come to jesus moment and thinks "you know...I really shouldn't cheat anymore."
Completely agree. I am in America, and it is incredibly frustrating. People, I think, are just kinda milling about until we hit an extremely obvious tipping point. There’s been far too many “lines in the sand” that we’ve left far behind us. Couple that with the average person who either has been conditioned to not want to think about politics or is “too burned out to care” (so frustrating), we end up where we are.
It’s certainly by design that republicans are constantly pushing villainizing critical thinking and institutions which teach it, even though they themselves all have degrees.
It doesn’t help that the vast majority of us are locked to our jobs for healthcare, and well over half the county lives paycheck to paycheck now and that’s only getting worse with inflation and wealth concentration at the top.
Losing SNAP benefits could be a tipping point. Once those millions of people run out of food (the largest group of recipients are, guess what, idiot trump supporters in red states), we might see some change. But not before (even more) people start to die, unfortunately.
And were privileged enough to only pay attention now
This is actually a huge part of the issue. While the move hurts white participants as well, proportionally it's much lower.
White people will largely shut up if they witness violence because they do not want to alter their racial privileges (and in doing so they avoid class solidarity).
Yes, and we will be dumbfounded how quickly they forget.
Hard to forget when you can’t eat.
They’ll forget who was at fault and blame the dems while giving the fascists a free pass.
Bingo.
On the way up to the next election (ha, if that ever happens) the Nazis will twist it that it all happened due to the shutdown, which was definitely not their fault. The others were the ones who wouldn't agree to things.
Whilst the dumb-ocrats will just blissfully bumble along not defending themselves, and then wonder why they have lost to the Nazis once again.
Gotta kill’em all.
As is tradition.
Imagine, army troops guarding grocery store exits.
It wasn't long ago that they were protecting cars.
Imagine being those fascist simps with all those guns and you’re like “yes, preventing the wrong people from getting food is my purpose”