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If both-side-ism makes you feel better than everyone else. It didn't start collapsing in 2017. This has been brewing for a long time, one could argue since the
by papito 5y ago
If both-side-ism makes you feel better than everyone else. It didn't start collapsing in 2017. This has been brewing for a long time, one could argue since the 90s, when political discourse and bipartisanship started degrading. Donald Trump was just the catalyst needed to accelerate the final collapse. And by collapse I mean "collapse". American democracy is not surviving the next 20 years.
As an aside, it it really strange to see people falling in front of Trump to protect him on HN, a place with seemingly smart people. A man with zero principles, no moral compass, and fewer redeeming qualities than Caligula.
And all of this in a thread that is wondering - why doesn't Donald Trump care about our rules?
Off to shout obscenities at a school board meeting, toodles!
- smaryjerry 5y agoEvery generation thinks their problems are the worst. It’s just more of the same political fighting where one side demonizes the other to try to get people on their side. The world moves on until the next time they need to demonize someone and nothing of importance really happened. There is no collapse, just on to the next candidate.
- caf 5y agoEverything stays the same until the moment that it doesn't.
- papito 5y agoThe first time in American history there was no peaceful transfer of power, the loser claimed the election stolen, and refused to concede. So, no, it's not "just another candidate". This false both-side-ism is intellectually dishonest.
- smaryjerry 5y agoIt’s not both side ism. They literally lied for years and spent millions of tax payer dollars trying to take out the president, and yet nothing more than words were said by the other side. Send pretty insignificant to me. If anything the opposite party you are claiming abused the legal system while the other simply expressed an opinion with no abuse of power whatsoever.