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>The people are largely unhappy with how things have been This is an understatement to say the least, and the fact it's been denied and even refused by the pow
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The people are largely unhappy with how things have been
This is an understatement to say the least, and the fact it's been denied and even refused by the powers that be until today is why the pendulum has swung as hard as it has.
Americans wanted change, and they finally got it with ferocious retribution because it's been held back for so long.
- lanstin 2y agoLike the old Mencken quote: `Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.`
- pstuart 2y agoThe sentiment I get in this regards is that people are angry and want to "burn it to the ground", without any thought of what might possibly take its place.
- kenjackson 2y agoThe weird thing is these same people will tell you the US is the greatest place on Earth and if you don't like, then leave!
- allturtles 2y agoThe real U.S. In these people's minds, the federal government and its millions of employees are a parasite sucking the blood of the real U.S., not a part of it. I will leave analogies as an exercise to the reader.
- kristjansson 2y agoExactly. Freeways and airports and fallow fields fully paid for. Cheap imports and complete and utter physical security. BLM land to hunt and graze and drill and fell. Rivers that don't catch on fire, not even a little bit. And it would be so much better without the got-damn'd feds.
- pstuart 2y agoThey literally worship the flag. “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
- jltsiren 2y agoMore like Americans repeatedly vote for change, because the change they got four years earlier was too bad. It reminds me of Chile, which keeps oscillating between socialist and conservative presidents every four years.
- mastersummoner 2y agoI'm confused. Are you saying specifically that you think the experiences described in this article are for the good of the country? Or do you think they're an exaggeration/lie.
- pizlonator 2y agoI don’t think that’s what the comment said at all. You’re extrapolating too much. Explaining the pendulum swinging violently because folks didn’t feel heard is not the same thing as saying that it’s a good thing that the pendulum has swung so violently.
- Dalewyn 2y agoI'm a Trump voter (2016, 2020, and 2024) so I obviously find all this a good thing, just for transparency. That said, that is tangential and irrelevant to explaining how and why the pendulum swung back as hard as it did. Trump won his first term in 2016 because Americans were fed up with the Bush+Obama status quo of endless wars and waste. Drain the swamp, fuck the establishment! As the sentiment of the day went; remember Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party? Biden winning 2020 was a sharp rebuke by the powers that be; how dare the people demand change and elect an outsider, how dare the people demand peace and effective government. Biden and Harris's 2024 campaigns likewise were based strictly and ultimately on continuing the status quo; Harris "had no policy" in large part because the "policy" was the status quo. Trump winning again in 2024 with a historic campaign is a sharp rebuke to that, he is the people's retribution for being denied and refused for so long time and time again. For voters like me and us, NASA and the like having their funding slashed and denied is merely collateral damage for a greater and long-awaited cause.
- tmerse 2y agoTrump won his first term in 2016 because Americans were fed up with the Bush+Obama status quo of endless wars and wast Does this include threatening Greenland with military action or does it not count as war if there is little resistance to be expected?