Economic concerns and growing disenchantment with both parties is draining support for Trump among Gen Z young men, a key bloc of support during the 2024 election
They only had the keys to begin with because of all the people who had already (and continue to) given up. Assuming that there was nothing they could ever do because when they showed up at the last second and did the absolute bare minimum, it didn’t magically fix everything for them.
Oh I’m sorry did I not vote my ass off and protest and write my congresspeople and every other option short of violence I can think of?
Fuck off “because of people who had given up”. The people who gave up are the people at the top. The people who were very much in power yet failed to go after Trump after his 1st term, and who failed to put in protections for his second term, and who have failed their country every step of the way. Forgive me for losing faith in a party who could have continued to hold out against the budget bill, yet mind-bogglingly didn’t. Fuck off with “it didn’t magically fix everything”. Fix maybe one thing and I’d have had a little faith. The American government has entirely failed America and there appear to be no more nonviolent options for resolution here.
Why do people assume that, when talking about something that doesn’t contextually apply to them… it magically applies to them for some reason.
I’m not talking about people who voted their ass off in every election possible, marched in protests, contacted their current reps, etc. as evidenced by specifically referencing people who did the absolute minimum.
If you gave up after all that effort, that’s a completely different problem. One mostly centered around the narcissistic idea of “I did everything I could and nothing changed, therefore doing those things makes no difference”. It is about a combined effort, not a singular one. One person doing everything they can (as long as their bank account couldn’t fund entire countries) ain’t gonna do shit by itself.
It’s also not about a single party. Anyone who just looks at a party and thinks “That’s my team, I’ll do whatever they say” is also a problem. It is possible to change that team with enough (collective) effort, but banking on everyone on that team being magically “the good guy” is naive at best, and downright foolish otherwise. Blaming them for all your problems equally so.
The country is made up of people, not just parties or corporations, no matter how many Supreme Court justices think otherwise. That’s who’s going to make a difference.
Well, we’re not gonna get progress either way because these idiots already handed over the keys.
They only had the keys to begin with because of all the people who had already (and continue to) given up. Assuming that there was nothing they could ever do because when they showed up at the last second and did the absolute bare minimum, it didn’t magically fix everything for them.
Oh I’m sorry did I not vote my ass off and protest and write my congresspeople and every other option short of violence I can think of?
Fuck off “because of people who had given up”. The people who gave up are the people at the top. The people who were very much in power yet failed to go after Trump after his 1st term, and who failed to put in protections for his second term, and who have failed their country every step of the way. Forgive me for losing faith in a party who could have continued to hold out against the budget bill, yet mind-bogglingly didn’t. Fuck off with “it didn’t magically fix everything”. Fix maybe one thing and I’d have had a little faith. The American government has entirely failed America and there appear to be no more nonviolent options for resolution here.
Why do people assume that, when talking about something that doesn’t contextually apply to them… it magically applies to them for some reason.
I’m not talking about people who voted their ass off in every election possible, marched in protests, contacted their current reps, etc. as evidenced by specifically referencing people who did the absolute minimum.
If you gave up after all that effort, that’s a completely different problem. One mostly centered around the narcissistic idea of “I did everything I could and nothing changed, therefore doing those things makes no difference”. It is about a combined effort, not a singular one. One person doing everything they can (as long as their bank account couldn’t fund entire countries) ain’t gonna do shit by itself.
It’s also not about a single party. Anyone who just looks at a party and thinks “That’s my team, I’ll do whatever they say” is also a problem. It is possible to change that team with enough (collective) effort, but banking on everyone on that team being magically “the good guy” is naive at best, and downright foolish otherwise. Blaming them for all your problems equally so.
The country is made up of people, not just parties or corporations, no matter how many Supreme Court justices think otherwise. That’s who’s going to make a difference.