Lots of people don’t understand where Trumpism comes from so they believe (or delude themselves through wishful thinking) that once Trump is gone, everything will just “return to normal,” the anomaly will pass just as it came, and it’ll be like a bad dream.
This is obviously nonsense. The conditions that created Trumpism are still present and worse than ever, and there’s a large segment of the population in this radical right-wing media sphere that propelled Trump to power in the first place and isn’t going to disappear just because one person retires or dies.
But this is why these people are so invested in upholding the status quo, because they don’t understand how the status quo brought us here.
It will be, but not only from them winning. This aittitude is a big part of the problem.
You won’t win via a violent revolution, and you wont win via a third party (anyone who understands the basic forces involved when a system has winner takes all or first past the post), so instead you win by slowly taking over the democrat party with increasingly progressive candidates.
Its literally the only way a slow system like the US can be changed, and this “why didn’t they fix it in one term!!!” attitude seeks to attribute blame rather than problem solve.
I think the smart take is to understand the DNC is antagonistic towards our goals but simultaneously is the entity we need to slowly change (through primaries, state and local politics) and continue to support while that happens to avoid the massive harm of having republicans win.
Truly. The delusional people online chriping up about “wrong side of history” grind my fucking gears.
Talk about premature celebration.
Yall literally do not have a plan to stop him yet. The fuck you mean he’ll go down in history books this way or that way.
Bitch he’s your president right now.
You need to deal with that, and the fascist republicans first.
Right now, they’re winning and robbing you blind simultaneously.
Lots of people don’t understand where Trumpism comes from so they believe (or delude themselves through wishful thinking) that once Trump is gone, everything will just “return to normal,” the anomaly will pass just as it came, and it’ll be like a bad dream.
This is obviously nonsense. The conditions that created Trumpism are still present and worse than ever, and there’s a large segment of the population in this radical right-wing media sphere that propelled Trump to power in the first place and isn’t going to disappear just because one person retires or dies.
But this is why these people are so invested in upholding the status quo, because they don’t understand how the status quo brought us here.
Yeah sure it’s a “party” problem. It’ll all be fixed by democrats winning. jfc.
It will be, but not only from them winning. This aittitude is a big part of the problem.
You won’t win via a violent revolution, and you wont win via a third party (anyone who understands the basic forces involved when a system has winner takes all or first past the post), so instead you win by slowly taking over the democrat party with increasingly progressive candidates.
Its literally the only way a slow system like the US can be changed, and this “why didn’t they fix it in one term!!!” attitude seeks to attribute blame rather than problem solve.
I think the smart take is to understand the DNC is antagonistic towards our goals but simultaneously is the entity we need to slowly change (through primaries, state and local politics) and continue to support while that happens to avoid the massive harm of having republicans win.