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"He who saves his country does not violate any law." -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)
He's old and doesn't have much time left. The really problematic people are all around him and they are many.
Yeah he's like the very obvious and prominant pus-filled boil on a body riddled with disease. He isn't the cause of the disease, just one of the symptoms.
And yet in all their past few decades none of them rallied the base like he did.
Remove Trump and you remove most of the power.
Lol
True hydra situation going on
-Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)
Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.
Nobody is saying it would solve the problem but it might make me feel a little better
Capitalism
This is the thing making me lean more toward leaving than trying to change things. Even if Trump were magically impeached today, and our election system were left as near-intact as it is, somebody just like him could be just as likely to be elected in the next cycle. And odds are he's going to pull off rigging the system to make sure that happens by then.
I think that on a long term scale, to get at the root, something needs to be done about the media machine behind him. Culture eats policy for breakfast.
inb4 moderation
Shitty time to be alive when it's no longer cool to shoot Nazis.
Any media that silences it is in support of Trump.
As Elon Sucks says, "you're the media now".
Who has a good recipe for cooking the rich
Trump is just the convenient caricature of a puppet pushed forward to be the face and disorganise everything. When he dies he'll be replaced by someone else capable of filling that role. It wouldn't surprise me if the follow-up person is already known in their circles.
Trump is old and messed up. The propaganda rocketing him up can just as easily shoot him down. He is here to do damage and to disrupt and corrupt the system. He's here to weed out the failsafes against fascism/monarchy so a new political model can take over.
When he's done enough, someone else will step forward to rebuild and 'repair the damage' but only in such a way that the fascist/oligarchy gains more power and the majority of people lose more power.
Not that I'm opposed to the idea on principle, but realistically that kind of long wolf adventurism would only make things worse.