Is it really that bad in America?
It’s worse.
We’re to the point where we really need a general strike to bring this regime to its knees.
But there’s a catch. I’m not aware any general strike having successfully done so in a country where the capital is not also the largest city.
Also, bread and circuses can go a long way in tamping down dissent.
How do you feel about the changes over say, the last thirty years where you are? How has the average person's life changed, and how has it got so out of control?
Well, there’s certainly been an ongoing concentration of wealth and enshitification for the less well off that started well before Trump and seems to be getting worse. And democracy has been slowly crumbling for a while now. But it’s accelerated rapidly since this January and I’m not at all sure that the U.S. could currently be described as a functioning democracy. Our Supreme Court is stacked with sycophants and Congress with cowards.
I really do feel like both Reagan getting into power and Gore incorrectly ceding to Bush Jnr were the two big downward inflection points for the US (and unfortunately the world along with it).
I would literally pay so much money for a crystal ball that would allow me to gaze at that timeline.
Yeah, this is what I expected. Trump is both a symptom of the degradation, and a catalyst to drive it faster. And it is spreading globally. If something doesn't happen soon, there is no reversal possible and it will run its course all the way through, like a metastisized cancer.
nope honest.
you sound TDS and not actually want to have a conversation.
Calling out a basis and that is your response proves my point.
you are throwing around a word that does not apply.
just saying facism over and over does not make it true.
