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Have you not been paying attention for the past several decades? Trump is unprecedented in audacity, crassness, and degree of harm. But the overall trend is rig
by mindslight 1y ago
Have you not been paying attention for the past several decades? Trump is unprecedented in audacity, crassness, and degree of harm. But the overall trend is right in line with what Republicans have been doing for thirty+ years (at least as long as I've been paying attention). And no, the destruction does not cause people to vote Democrat in response. People become more desperate, more reactionary, more quick to blame their fellow citizens, and more easy to lead towards supporting even more destruction - this is exactly how we've arrived at Trump in the first place. When the Democrats do get back in office, they effectively act as controlled opposition. Even if they try to undo the damage, most actions are sabotaged by a few "moderates" that have been captured by the corpos just like the Republicans. And then the Republican machine goes to work projecting - pointing to the Democrats' failings as open corruption, inability to do anything, fiscal irresponsibility as price inflation finally appears from the Republicans' profligate spending, etc.
Personally I'm not really worried about the "no more elections" panic narrative, because I think the real answer is that there isn't going to be much of a federal government left to take the reigns of.