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At least we kept bLuEmAGa from being in power! That would have been MUCH worse!/s (lemmy.world)

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[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But now after the fact, I might still prefer incremental improvement rather than burning it down and starting over, but the latter literally seems more plausible now. Incremental changes are going full speed in the wrong direction now. The capitalists are currently on a sharp upward trajectory, not going down.

I keep coming back to the vote counts though. Trump got the second highest ever vote count for president in 2024. The only person who ever got more was Biden at the end of Trump’s disastrous first term.

I’m glad you’re going through a wake up call. Btw re Biden’s 2020 election, he would of never had that support had covid not happened and the BLM protests not happened. Both events fired up the base, and trumps covid response didn’t help things. If it was just another election, say 2004 but biden was on the ticket instead of Kerry, he would of lost.

The capitalists are consolidating power quickly and there’s no one in power to stop them. But there’s a lot more of us than there are of them, and look at how they’re throwing the book at Luigi with trumped up charges because he killed one person who just happened to be important to the ruling class. Nobody else who murders one person gets hit with charges to that level. We need more actions like that, we need to actually threaten them.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately I think the biggest part of my ongoing wake up call is not the need for radical change, but that my disillusionment with the American people got even worse. I can only hope that a very large amount of Trump’s support is from ignorance, because there’s definitely a lot of enthusiastic informed support of him too.

But there’s a lot more of us than there are of them

I want to believe. I know there are more decent caring people than billionaire capitalists, but are there more decent caring people than the capitalists PLUS their boot lickers PLUS their useful idiots? And with the momentum going in the wrong direction?

In total it seems like we are much more likely to be rescued by a small platoon of extremely motivated and self-sacrificing Luigis, rather than our society at large actually wanting to fix itself.