NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide.
JuSt VoTe NeXt TiMe!!!
And every time I tell people we won’t get a vote they laugh at me. Holy fuck, people just don’t get how severe and horrible this administration is. We can’t remove them for abuse of law, we can barely counter their worst abuses just to have them win in the end, and we’re about to have them as dictators for life with no voting.
I honestly think the only solution is to leave this damned country. But guess what, unless you have a decent amount of money, that’s out, too.
We’re fucked
The problem is so much worse than voting. The last two election cycles showed the highest turnout of voters and young voters in recorded American history.
The problem was not that nobody voted, the problem was the voters had no idea what was going on or who to vote for because all our collective brains have scrolled right out our ears and people have atomized perspectives and don’t interact with each other anymore, allowing our nation to curdle, to fester into a million little sub-groups where you face no challenges, no backlash, no accountability and your every delusion will have a fanbase.
We did all this while POURING money into the industrial complexes that only seek to sell you marginally better products that fall apart of become obsolete within a few years, powering the corporations that own our politicians.
The average median voter has no idea what’s real or not, has no interest in policy, has no idea how policy even works or what our branches of government are, and has been scrolling for so long that they don’t know how to be alone with their own thoughts. That’s why Trump and his ilk are shredding the country apart right now. We didn’t fight the idiots hard enough because we weren’t social and involved enough to make them feel shame. We could have used shame as our mightiest weapon because they are radically insecure and scared of being shamed, but apparently our side was equally scared, so the dumb billionaires with too much wealth to even feel shame won out in the end.
People used to say that Steve Jobs had a reality distortion field, but I think Trump is a thousand times worse.
It’s so bad and the standards are so different between him and just about anybody else, sometimes the 0.01% chance that he’s the world’s best actor rather than an idiot and/or Russian asset scares me even more.
Yes, I don’t think Trump will lead America to a better life, he will only lead the rich to a richer position, so we need to seize the opportunity to make ourselves rich
Lol, anyone in a position to seize the opportunity to enrich themselves is already extremely privileged. Most of us live paycheck to paycheck and many have to supplement those paychecks with credit. We aren’t seizing shit.
You can buy guns on credit, you can also go massively in debt and keep your guns, eventually they’ll no longer be able to take you to court, this is definitely not life advice though.
Your country has more guns than people. Do something about it.