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Moostache
(10,460 posts)America is a GREAT concept.
America WAS a broken country.
America IS a shit hole nation at the moment.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but pretending that what is happening is in any way surpising or unexpected is bullshit.
Project 2025 was available for EVERYONE to read.
People had already SEEN Trump's shit hole chaos circus ONCE....and they either couldn't be bothered to vote or actually DID vote for another round of "guess who I can fuck up next?".
America, as it currently exists, is a global parriah with a laughable buffoon in charge and an orange-painted marionette sitting on his lap.
America as an idea, a concept remains worth fighting for...America as it IS? This place sucks.
bigtree
(91,776 posts)...but I suspect that most people live in communities and neighborhoods like my own where we don't talk to each other the way Trump talks down to Americans; don't endeavor to do things which take away vital resources or aid and assistance, but strive to help where we're able.
I don't see any organized efforts from any of my fellow neighbors to enable the kidnapping off anyone away to another country, or cause anyone to lose their jobs.
When we do talk, we speak with care about our health and well-being, and about our families and friends. None of what we do in our daily lives lends itself to this unbridled fascism coming from the government.
That's the way I believe most of us live; the majority of Americans living in the cities which are so routinely denigrated as out of touch with rural, less populated parts of the nation which are perversely represented as the 'heartland,' despite their sparseness of homes and scattering of communities, a fraction of people who are living in the populated cities and suburbs, where most Americans live and work.
We're certainly not as the media portrays every day as the hosts pretend we're all in some kind of helpless clique which can't think and reason beyond their equalizing, compromised takes on the fascist takeover unfolding in front of us.
America's always been a concept, a work in progress. What we're facing tight now, though is an unnecessary regression as if nothing at all had been fought for and won; as if nothing at all had been learned from the past; and as if everyone of us is supposed to be deaf, dumb, and blind to the realities that exist in our own lives and believe that Ms-13 is at our door and tariffs will create a golden day.
American may well have been stupid enough to believe this NAZI should lead the nation, but they not stupid enough to follow him down as he destroys their very lives and livelihoods.
A good illustration for this is our own 'good and just' party out of power. EVERY time Americans elect Democrats into power we excel. EVERY TIME we're in power America progresses.
But people want us to believe that being rendered ineffectual against a majority in EVERY BRANCH OF GOVT at election time means that Democrats are 'weak' or any other projection of voter's own fecklessness at election time in defending their own prerogatives and interests.
Many will want to portray Americans as corrupt and racist as Trump's regime, and in many ways we are responsible for him in power. But that's a fallacy, as false as any political characterization of working Americans looking to make their way through the challenges most families and individuals struggle through to survive and prosper.
tonkatoy8888
(76 posts)But I always remember that more or less 30% of my fellow citizens are down with any repressive, illegal, nonsensical, hair brained scheme that that can be imagined.
I'll withhold final judgement until this all plays out.
stillcool
(33,676 posts)regardless of the purely accidental geographical location of their birth. Life.
ImNotGod
(649 posts)Swede
(36,009 posts)But the nutjobs are loud
0rganism
(25,011 posts)Not sure how "good" it is. For a while, we were on the path to having something really special: a more perfect union, where everyone could have rights that mattered. Unfortunately, professional grifters and bullies know all too well how to subvert and cow "good" people to do their bidding. The "good" people of Iowa voted overwhelmingly for the current bad leader people.
Nonnia Bisnez
(22 posts)Both Kamala Harris and Trump himself warned us what was going to happen. We are getting the government we (collectively) deserve.
BannonsLiver
(19,054 posts)I'm not so sure about that.
Redleg
(6,465 posts)in our Constitution and Bill of Rights and other statutes that promote justice and the common welfare, so long as we allow the principles contained therein to guide our actions.