That statement right there implies that you are probably one of the 30% of Americans that could have stopped Trump just by voting for the next best feasible option.
Don't get me wrong, that was me the first time he ran, I was similarly disillusioned when I felt like Hillary cheated Bernie. So, those first four years. Those were on me.
I hope you enjoy all the "progress" these next four bring, because those are on YOU.
You better go fix it then.
I don't think so. They'd be too afraid of being labeled a heretic. The most common position seems to be "I'm religious, but not THAT religious."
As soon as someone knows you're a ninja, you're not a ninja.
Yeah! I member!
It's not weird at all. We all do this.
But...
If you do it ALL the time, you're not accepting any responsibility for your own actions. You'll never learn from your mistakes or improve your behavior. Your brain chemicals may have let you down, but what are YOU going to do to prevent that in the future? What action of YOURS caused those brain chemicals to fail?
If we don't count cruises and one day port visits, I might not have any living family members who have ever left the US.
Although, I had one half of my family all move to the South, so they bring back various accents when they visit.
Finished my Community Center yesterday! The last thing I was waiting on was a large milk because I had decided I didn't want to run a barn at all on this playthrough, until I realized that there's only one way to get a large milk. I checked with the pig wagon a few times, but never offered it to me.
So, anyway, I have a barn with a cow now. 😂
This "All or nothing" bullshit helped put that asshole back in office, and it needs to stop.
Harris got shit on because there was always MORE she could have done. Simply not being a rapist felon should have been more than enough to win that election, but we kept nit picking about everything on our wish list that she couldn't do, and helped convince the country that she wasn't good enough for us, and now look where we are. We got NOTHING on our wishlist and are likely to lose a lot of what we had before.
A full blown anti-theist candidate would scare too many people. They would be even easier to vilify than Biden or Harris. We need to take little steps in the right direction, not just sit and watch democracy fall apart because the only person who could have stopped it "didn't threaten to bomb Israel enough" or "never mentioned changing what gets printed on the money".
Like a child that throws a tantrum about not being able to get two desserts, so they get nothing at all.
Probably Mississippi.
I won't disagree with really any of that, and I'm not completely against the idea of total revolution, but revolution requires people.
In November, 30% of people didn't bother to vote at all, and another third voted for fascism.
How bad will it have to get before people care?
How much worse than THAT, will it take to get MAGA to realize they fucked up?
At that point you might have enough people to actually do something, but also the restrictions on freedom will have gotten stronger, and there will be strong measures in place to prevent dissent.
It may be inevitable, but I don't want to live in that country. And if I can hold it off long enough that my children don't have to live in it, maybe they can turn things around. I see a lot of potential in these kids. They can do a lot of good once the Boomers die off.
Let's slow the bleeding as much as possible before going straight to amputation.