• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Nah. Trump alone cannot drag down the reputation of the whole country. The reason we hate america more now is because trump is so openly corrupt, that we can see how corrupt his buddies are too. And his buddies are the ones that run america.

    The entire GOP is doing everything it can to protect trump from any legal consequences. All the big tech companies openly bribe him to get away with the shit they do. His voters are no longer ashamed of the racist and fascist shit that come out their mouths. Pete hegseth and Co. brag about how much they hate their “freeloading” allies.

    Bringing down the reputation of America is a team effort. You cannot just throw trump under the bus.

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      1 day ago

      Another reason is that it’s not like there was a coup and the population is being held hostage. They voted for this. Twice.

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        Both parties were captured by the rich before we were born, and have gotten worse every cycle, respective of their party. We are being held hostage, even if a quarter of them trust the ones most screwing them to represent them, and only half of them are party stalwarts, it’s like 13 percent that know what they are doing and supporting, and most of them are evangelicals and religious crazies, and business dickheads. The rest are sheep. Democrat side too, sheep that trust the party, those that think they will benefit, then the majority of them that are just voting against the other party.

        At least half of all voters are voting against the other party, and it’s never been more clear how pointless that is in preventing the republicans from seizing absolute power, we stuck our necks out in 2020 and Biden did nothing with it, didn’t even protect voting officials getting death threats. The democrats learned nothing, haven’t changed anything, they will not stop the republicans, never were going to, and that’s not their mission, preventing popular reform to revoke the license the rich have been granted is their reason for being, and we all know it.

        So I disagree, voting democrat was never going to keep the republicans out with a captured democratic party.

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          I didn’t claim that Democrats are the salvation. I have no suggestions on fixing your political system. Just pointing out the fact that Trump was elected. Twice. So this goes even deeper than politicians and their cronies - it’s a huge part of the population that’s rotten along with them.