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Putin won the Cold War. Things that are happening I would never though would happen and I really believed republicans would defend the constitution, they talked about it so much.
Now even talking against them is dangerous since they are tracking everyone. I really though people would protect more democracy
This guy is a sack of shit as big as trump, why are you upvoting the thread?
Ok, honest question. That Wikipedia article doesn't seem to say anything about him being a piece of shit, what do you mean?
He is a neo conservative, which I dunno if it qualifies him to be a POS but it does make everything he says pretty fucking suspect.
Sure, the never trumpers are better than not but they still helped usher in this current day madness
I suspect most people feel that if things get too bad (too late) things will be taken care of for them, someone else will do it, etc. Despite all the rhetoric there is still a lot of faith in the system, at least from the older folks. I have to say it is quite eerie and weird though and not in a good way.
I totally don't understand the "no resistance" part. Is then this country filled with total idiots? Or are they all that greedy, they think they are going to get something from that orange satan if they support him? Both possibilities are despiccable.
From an outside perspective, I have a feeling that there is a lot of resistance. It's just that politicians mostly aren't doing shit. Same thing for most media. And I think that yes, they are all mostly greedy.
That's the culture in the US, money has always been able to influence and coordinate over ideology. It has become clear that patriotism in the US is so obsessed with the romanticized past to make up any actual ideological conviction in the present. Otherwise, we would see a lot of states begin trying to coordinate with each other against a clearly unconstitutional federal government.
I thought, giving a gun to everything that breaths was supposed to prevent this?
No resistance! That's why ICE shot those people!
This guy clearly didn't do any research on the street.
He doesn't mean absolutely zero.
But things are far more dire than people think.
And huge rallies where people go home at the end of the day so nothing against someone like Trump. They need to stay out there instead of going back to work. The economy has to be brought to a standstill. It will take a huge toll. But to get rid of incipient despotism that's what it takes.
My friend Bob, who lives down the street, said the same thing (and he's no historian).
The US hasnt had a meaningful election in a long time. We were basically already a dictatorship. Now at least we can stop pretending that voting harder will change anything.
Americans don't care nearly enough as long as they still get their benefits from imperial plunder.
It’s this actually. Nothing Trump has done has personally impacted most Americans, so they aren’t going to riot in the streets yet. By the time he does, they will have deployed the army and America will get to have its own Tiananmen square.