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‘Exhausted’ Americans are tuning out politics, according to TV ratings and new poll
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I paid attention, I engaged, I voted, I urged others to vote. It didn't matter. This country deserves what is coming.
I feel you. But at the same time, I'm also afraid that as they dismantle the government, the brain drain from departing/retiring federal workers and knowledge about how the parts of government (for example the NIH or the NOAA/NWS) function on the day to day (including things like historical climate data) will be lost in the chaos. I'm not paying attention now, because I think it will be more important to pay attention in a month. I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it then either, but I don't want some of what we do have to be lost forever because some assholes didn't like it, and the rest of us thought they deserved it. Maybe they do deserve it, but the rest of us don't deserve to lose it forever either.
Precisely. My only fear is the people who need the biggest punch in the face won't get it. Or will be too stupid to understand it.
This is why Faux viewership surged. They'll need an outlet to explain how the punch in the face was really because of Kamala's cackle. Or Hillary's cankles. Or because of that one trans they heard about having any sort of dignity...
They'll get their metaphorical face punch and blame Biden, Harris, Hillary, Obama, and/or whoever else is the manufactured villain du jour
To be fair, a majority of Americans chose not-Trump for 3 elections. And that's ignoring the fact that voters in solid blue states just didn't show up to vote because their votes don't matter. If we lived in a Democracy and not a Democratic Republic, I'm confident he would have lost the plurality as well.
But also, half the country didn't ask for this. Even in solid red states like the one I live in, a third of us didn't ask for this bullshit.
What I'm tired of is the media sanewashing domestic terrorists and centrists giving the right a free pass by not paying attention and assuming "both sides" any time literally anything happens.
It still mattered. Republicans won on federal level (mainly due to a successful social media campaign) but there were also some good wins for Democrats on local levels.
Highly recommend "On Tyranny" book by Timothy Snyder.
Maybe we need a third option than just two.
Sadly, a two party system is inevitable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law