This is a guess or a bet, and one I'll take the other side of. Let's check back in in a year.
Trump has said he will be a dictator on day one. Trump has said that after this election we won't have to vote anymore. Trump has suggested we give the police "One rough hour" like the horror movie The Purge and that would solve crime.
I expect that people are going to die because of the policies that Trump enacts during his presidency. And because of the hate and bigoted rhetoric that he subscribes to and legitimizes. Better that we go down fighting than willingly be party to America becoming another authoritarian regime that commits atrocities.
But it appears that the American people value their wallets more. I'm sympathetic to that, even if my values are different. And TBQH I hope I'm wrong. But
> When someone shows you who they are, believe them
> I expect that people are going to die because of the policies that Trump enacts during his presidency
This comes with the job. His actions or inactions will have all sorts of impacts, just like every president before him.
> Better that we go down fighting than willingly be party to America becoming another authoritarian regime that commits atrocities
Forgive the snark, but what universe have you been living in? We have a pretty strong record when it comes to committing atrocities.
> But it appears that the American people value their wallets more.
That's a pretty dismissive way to put it. Food and housing and medical care being increasingly unaffordable is an existential issue for a lot of people. Of course Trump presided over some of that decline, but this sort of blind spot towards what the lives of common people are like contributed heavily to this election IMO.
I haven't said that America is perfect or innocent. And past problems don't mean we shouldn't work to prevent future ones.
Ok. It's dismissive. I don't understand. This is deeply confusing and disheartening to me. I find it unconscionable to put my own quality of life above others living at all, and am having a lot of trouble processing why so many people have. I could ask you how bad it is exactly but I wouldn't vote for Trump even if I was homeless. So maybe I can't understand.
I think the best bet at this point is either go all in on politics and make it your life's work, or just shut it off for a while.
Too many people drink from the firehose of bullshit news and it drives them nuts. In reality you can't have much influence on any of this beyond voting, unless you're going all in on it.
And believe it or not, life is going to go on either way. Might as well act accordingly.
This is a guess or a bet, and one I'll take the other side of. Let's check back in in a year.
Trump has said he will be a dictator on day one. Trump has said that after this election we won't have to vote anymore. Trump has suggested we give the police "One rough hour" like the horror movie The Purge and that would solve crime.
I expect that people are going to die because of the policies that Trump enacts during his presidency. And because of the hate and bigoted rhetoric that he subscribes to and legitimizes. Better that we go down fighting than willingly be party to America becoming another authoritarian regime that commits atrocities.
But it appears that the American people value their wallets more. I'm sympathetic to that, even if my values are different. And TBQH I hope I'm wrong. But
> When someone shows you who they are, believe them