Nothing is going to “work.” Republicans are going to take away the safety net from a lot of poor people to fund tax cuts for the rich. Trump is going to fuck everything up domestically and internationally. Then the Dems will take the House in 2026 and block at least some of the chaos. Then in 2028 Trump is either gone or American democracy is. The electoral part of the fight against Trump is over. We lost.
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You’d be wrong if you think I’m edgelording.
And I’m not saying stochastic violence is good. I’m saying that it merely exists. I think it’s just the price you pay for taking a truly populist tone. If you can’t handle that, then you should be anti-populist.
Yes, and if you tried to explain it to them the median voter would just say “isn’t that what the President is supposed to do?” The median voter thinks the President is the boss of the country.
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Only if I didn’t need a job, what do you think the job market is going to be like if a million gov workers are let go at the same time?
I’m less worried in the short term than I am in the long term.
So many of this admin’s policies are going to be wildly unpopular and it’s unclear they have any interest in governing for anyone but the Billionaire class and the “Votes for Trump in GOP Primaries” voters, which is a very small subset of the country.
Long term my worry is that after 4 years of the Trump Admin, he can still run 4 years later after everything he did and win an election by just being the “change” candidate.
I think that result really opened my eyes to how fragile and how few safety rails a two-party Presidential system of government has.
Trump isn’t the problem long term. He’s gonna be 82 in 4 years. The problem is a future guy similar to Trump in every way except he’s 30 years younger. That guy is never giving up power and the guardrails put in place by Trump’s SC will make sure he stays in power. I figured it was gonna be DeSantis but it will probably be someone else.
It’s entirely possible if not likely the democrats never get another judge confirmed.
Counterpoint: Individual perception/happiness/utility is based on relative status rather than absolute status. (Like, it’s easy to argue that most everyone in the U.S. has a higher standard of living than a 12th century monarch, but it’s also easy to believe that the 12th century monarch had a much higher sense of value/utility/self-worth than the worst off in the U.S.)
So if the GOP said to its voters, “We will make your life materially worse in terms of what you can afford and what services you have access to, but we’re going to make your lazy, no-good neighbor’s life exponentially worse than that”, I think those voters would accept that deal in a heartbeat. Yeah, life gets a little tougher for them, but their relative status improves and they can feed off the suffering of the less-deserving who have been rightly put back in their place.
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Something “works” if it limits the damage. Trump only fucks everything if we give up.
Surely all the animals who have been mashing the Trump voting button are THIS CLOSE to discovering the error of their ways when confronted by overwhelming evidence. SURELY.
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You don’t appeal to reason. You go after their emotions. Trump has shown us the way.
It won’t be “evidence” that wins anyone over. It will be a personal decline in standard of living. Not 100% of the Trumpers of course, a lot of them will die believing what they believe now, but the successful way out of cults is always the same: cult members eventually realize that their lives have not improved the way the cult leader said that their life would improve. Cults are a persistent part of the world specifically because normal people are hard wired to try to win over cult members the wrong way (arguing with them).
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Good thing it’s super easy for people to break free of cults!
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There was some yelling when he first mentioned vaccines.
It’s not easy, that’s the point. It takes a non-intuitive path of action and a lot of patience. Trump wins by making people angry and impulsive.
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Lol we have federal holidays but we don’t celebrate them or mention them, you just get the day off
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RFK Jr says he has Medicare Advantage. I find that questionable. He says people want MA but can’t afford it; it’s much more expensive. Weird.
Haha bullshit. I have Medicare Advantage. I have SSDI with Cigna. I pay $0 a month for it.
Technically I pay like $150 a month. It’s automatically deducted from my SSDI but I don’t get a bill for it.