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‘The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets’: Trump lashes out as his power wanes
(www.theguardian.com)
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America isn't like this because Trump is president, Trump is president because America is like this.
I point to the likes of Mitch McConnell who has been working to undermine our government for decades, just that instead of someone with half a brain they got Trump instead so have to go with him.
It began with the piece of shit Reagan and continued by Newt Gingrich. Fox News came along and made shit processing mainstream
Nah, it’s always been this way. A nation of virtuous people doesn’t Manifest Destiny their way across a continent, killing and enslaving everyone in the way.
To be fair, Manifest Destiny was bullshit pushed by rich people who wanted desperate people from Europe/Asia to come over and expand the country so they could make more money.
And Nixon's leaving office cemented they'd rather go with fascism than democracy.
Exactly. Everyone is scapegoating Trump like he's the cause of everything evil. But if he were just some fringe lunatic nobody agreed with, he would have been laughed out of the primaries immediately. The problem isn't him, it's the system that allowed him to even have a chance of being elected, and that includes the government, the billionaires running it, and a large percentage of voters
Nailed it. Trump to America is like Ringo to the Beatles. He’s a perfect fit.
He’s also like the Joker. He’s a reflection of hypocritical, first-world corruption, capitalism and consumerism. The citizens rely on Batman (establishment wealthy centrists) to save them every four to eight years. And when Batman fails to truly change material conditions, they let out the Joker from Arkham again, who promises to maintain their first-world consumerism.
Of course, the joker is a psychopath who wrecks shit, so he also fails on his promise to improve material conditions. He worsens them. The citizens get pissed and cry out to billionaire Batman again. Joker gets thrown to Arkham again for four to eight years. Rinse and repeat, without ever looking within themselves to see how they perpetuate the evil cycle of exploitation.
Even if voters didn’t directly vote him, they still support the system via there dollars to all the corrupt things. It’s exactly by design to serve the capitalist class. Batman and Joker are from the same DNA of the wealthy lineage.
If Americans woke up and addressed the true problem, which originates from their collective obsession with materialism and stop relying on Batman to save them from the Joker, then the joker has no reason to stick around and Batman becomes irrelevant.