safe_timber_man wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 2:22 pm
They're thick. Really fucking thick. Imagine already experiencing four years of that deranged moron and then going out and voting for it again. Fucking thick.
The problem is, I think a lot of people *didn’t* experience it because their day to day lives didn’t change and they don’t engage with politics. This time, if he really does go through with some of his more insane policy ideas, maybe more people will feel the pain?
It’s frighteningly similar to Brexit - it took Johnson actually pushing it through, and then 3 fucking terrible Tory administrations, before everyone felt it. And now we have a triple figure Labour majority. We had to get to most people not being all right, Jack, before we could move on.
If Trump causes a health disaster via RFK Jr, a financial disaster via tariffs, and/or an infrastructure disaster via letting Musk go to town on the civil service, and the people who didn’t feel it before suddenly have dead relatives, astronomical mortgages and zero federal safety net, then maybe things can be turned around before it’s terminal for US democracy.