If you're looking for a time to take action. It was 8 years ago.
If you're looking for a time to take action. It was 8 years ago.
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best is now.
There's 8 inches of snow on the ground.
I did what I could.
Went to rallies, worked at a non profit to help the homeless, overcame my own disability to do so, explained to those I was close to how this outcome we are now living through is possible, then probable, then very likely.
Meanwhile, all my friends and family either fell further into the QAnon/MAGA cult, or acted like I was a hysterical, delusional, paranoid maniac.
All those bridges have been burned now, the immense disrespect and gaslighting shown by both sides, simultaneously, from opposite extremes, did a great job of alienating me from myself and from them.
I'll never speak to any of them of them again, all the catharsis I get is this here rant saying that they were and are the delusional ones, that I was right... as everything falls further and more rapidly into terminal decline.
Oh well, I guess.
At least I have my own self-respect.
Classic America ..... they love to live the fantasy of fighting against fascism and fighting for democracy and the common people in movies ... but do the exact opposite in real life.
They treat doing the right thing like its some sort of fanciful make believe idea that only exists in movies, comics and fiction.
It’s dangerous to view America as a monolith
It’s so much more complicated than “Americans secretly bad, Americans too dumb too…”. a 40-50 year long effort of erosion by the wealthy, Christian elite, Republican governance, Gerry meandering, single issue voting, and so many other factors.
It’s damn class war behind a curtain. The rest of the world is susceptible to the same playbook
I agree because I'm in Canada and we suffer from the same things as you do. But the thing is that year in and year out, the majority of the time no matter what issue may be happening, everyone just had a short attention span and memory that they vote for leaders that won't, can't or don't want to serve their best interests. Conservatives have a long track record of not helping people and making common people's lives worse but they keep getting elected and no matter how much i may argue with my Conservative family and friends they can't or don't want to face that fact. I keep voting and supporting the left party ... but the center party definitely not the right ... the left. Even as we're losing and we get laughed at, I'll always vote left. I'm not joining in the stupidity so I feel comfortable when I point it out.
Right so many people can't even parse through obvious right-wing wedge-driving astroturfing to get off their ass and vote for the alternative candidate.
Now they're going to make memes about taking the fight to fascism? lol, sure. Maybe after their Mountain Dew and CoD session.
The entire world is shifting right not just America.
... being SHIFTED to the right
Common every day people don't consciously vote for or support right wing conservatives who won't support people but instead build up the already massive wealth of massively wealthy people. If people could just see through all that crap, we'd have a different political landscape. But the means of communications are also owned and operated by those people who want a right wing shift. People don't really want conservatism, especially in finance and social economics ... they want a sharing of the wealth, a chance at making a bit of money, a chance at saving their money and in taking some of the excessive wealth from the wealthy who don't need it and distributing it to everyone else. When you have a TV blaring at you, internet advertising, radio broadcasts, podcasts, marketing, newspapers, magazines telling you every single day and hour that conservatism is what you want ... chances are that is what you will think.
Poland for example shifted to the left (or at least democracy).
Oh man, so many failed time of actions.
2010 midterm was a pivotal time of action.
2004 was a time of action.
2000 was a time of action when Bush actually lost.
The only times we kind of sort of rose to the occasion was 2020 and 2022. By 2024 we already lost the thread lol.
They have to be killed.
(Gets banned for telling the truth backed by all of history)