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I actually do.
We're entirely fucked.
We're going to spend the rest of our lives witnessing the enshitification of this nation. Even if we completely turn this crash and burn around, we'll then spend the rest of our lives watching things being slowly rebuilt as traitorous Republicans continue to obstruct.
I don't think a lot of Americans are grasping exactly how hard we fucked ourselves by refusing to responsibly inform ourselves even to a minimal degree.
We entirely are. Our lifetimes in this country will never see another good day of it.
What I don't understand is that no one is stopping this from happening. They're all just letting it happen. Perhaps because they are afraid to lose their jobs but at what cost? I've lost all hope for this country and I wish to God I could move. Oh well.
Did he really get rid of remote work for no reason?
for no reason
Reason: Attrition
You don't have to fire them if they quit.
You gut those departments and put the money into things that benefit tax cuts on the rich, or you hire friends and loyalists into those seats and pay them all the money to do nothing.
It's a gift, Everything they're doing is a different length of gift to make the rich richer.
Yup.
Americans literally just voted to gut what was left of the middle class.
Super, almost unbelievably, stupid society we live in.
When there's a critical mass of hopeless people, they'll be drafted, given a rifle, and marched somewhere with the full intention of never letting them return alive or otherwise.
Today children, we'll learn about the great Canadian - American War of 2027.
Or as they know it in the US the American - Canadian War
The U.S.A. is done. Such sabotage by Trump, Musk and MAGA takes decades to recover from. 40 to 50 at least; rebuilding the civil service, amending all the laws back to normal, fixing the Supreme Court, probably needing Constitutional amendments. This easily echos for a hundred years.
Even if they get rid of pedo-Don, Fox will them everything that went wrong is because of Clinton and the woke and they will vote for him. It's over. That's the consequence of decades of under-educating their citizen and raw capitalism. The only question that remain is how much of the world down they will bring down with them.
Yup.
It will take decades of scraping and clawing things through Congress to get back what we're going to lose in a few short years. Assuming our government is even recognizable by the end of this.
If you have the means, it may actually be time to make another country home. If you don't, you need to come to terms that you will probably spend the rest of your life living in a declining nation where your rights are threatened.
The idea that america was fine until MAGA sabotaged it is absurd and reductionist.
Slowly degrading since what Nixon?
If's been being eroded for a long time, but just recently it's become fragile enough to be unstoppable at any level.
Hasn't it been thoroughly sabotaged by Reagan already? Not to say that Trump can't do a fine job setting the rubble on fire, but i concur that the US has been a mess for quite some time.
Do you not think 2016 America was better than America today?
In comparison to what we're probably going to be left with for the rest of our lives, what we had before MAGA will seem like a fucking utopia.
We had their playbook with p2025 and did nothing. They started enacting it, and we still do nothing. We could have shock-and-awed them right back with prepared lawsuits and movements blow for blow, and nothing.
The DNC and their non-spoiler neoliberals are still getting their sweet sweet oligarch bribe checks, so all is right with the world as far as they're concerned.
They're literally more defensive about any actual leftwing movement to get them to defend the people from the murderous capitalists destroying us and the planet for short term profit.
We either need a populist to steal the DNC's machine from them as they're kicking and screaming like Trump did the RNC, make a 3rd party, the best option have a hot revolution starting with Wall Street, or accept this hell as we sleepwalk into oblivion.
Blue no matter who is rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship. I voted for Harris out of some harm reduction, but the capitalists are the problem and own both parties. Republicans revel in the cruelty and are simply louder about it. Democrats will support your freedom to be LGBTQ... As you die in the gutter of poverty, exposure, and capital defense force brutality. Here have an affirmation ribbon to use as a blanket and/or snack in your cardboard box as they support the industry denying the claims for the nerve damage that made you lose your shitty subsistence job when your treatment would cut into their profit expectations.
Both parties support the "Freedom" of the rich to toss capital batteries they broke into the trash when they're no longer of use to their bottom line. Freedom without social responsibility is a rampage.
This is not the Democrats fault. It is the fault of those that voted for Trump. The knew exactly what he was, and still voted for him. They wanted this.
I'm suspect of posts that blame Democrats, are these posts put up by paid shills?
WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS THE FAULT OF TRUMP, AND HIS MAGA FOLLOWERS!!!
Please, before you suspect anybody of being a shill, read carefully what’s written. He described what the Democrats are doing. And you say it’s not the Democrats fault! What?
It’s apparently true: The people who voted for Trump are responsible for Trump being in power.
And nobody claims otherwise. But Trump becoming president has an economic backdrop that goes a long way back. It’s rooted in the neoliberal economic model that become popular in the 1960s and had taken over the whole world by the 2000s. It took the chains off of capitalism that workers united in Unions and parties had imposed on it. Because the old Social Democrat parties who people obviously trusted due to their history suddenly sided with the capitalists, everybody was caught on the wrong foot. Many fell for the lies that were peddled for why public services suddenly had to be privatised and made them their own fetish.
Since then a massive amount of wealth was being shifted to the capitalists while social services eroded. And now many people just feel completely left alone. Because they are. And they suddenly see the world as a place of dark forces, where everybody has to fight for themselves, where scamming people is a viable business model, where truth is a concept from some other time. Yeah, so some people say the Dems have their fair share in all this, because they sold out to the capitalists, thereby creating a feeding ground for fascists like Trump.
On the other hand OP was mostly saying how despicable the Dems are acting right now. So yeah.
why even bother focusing on this? "it's this guy's fault!" ok. so what? it will be four years if we even get a chance to vote again. the only thing we should be talking about is resistance.
Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’ https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775
The fascists are worse. I voted Harris with a funeral dirge in my heart out of harm reduction, but make no mistake, all we've been arguing for half a century is the rate of decline. A little slower under neoliberals, a little faster under Fascists.
NOTHING CAN IMPROVE until our government knocks our oligarchs down to size. Both parties are very well paid by the oligarchs to defend them from us. The oligarchs are running the asylum because both parties let them.
Republicans having no meaningful opposition on the shape and priorities of the economy for so long made them this bold. Every cycle in most of our lifetimes, both parties have been marching rightward. I fully expect next cycle for neoliberals to advocate "more humane" concentration camps in their never ending March to the new middle, already deep into fascist crazy town.
The Democrats just want more gay, trans, PoC concentration camp guards.
Homeless camps are the new concentration camps.
We had their playbook with p2025 and did nothing.
Liberals ran out their strongest champions
And spent over $1B of donor money in order to tell people that only ~~Joe Biden~~ Kamala Harris can Beat Trump, after a no-contest primary. A full year of campaigning. They brought Jeff Flake up as a surprise guest for the DNC!
You can't reasonably call that nothing. It felt like less than nothing.
At least they brought war criminal Dick Cheney on board, that made sure they would be completely useless.
We know. What we don't know is why are all civil servants just rolling over, instead of applying simple sabotage.
It's easy to volunteer other people, but these are civil servants who inherently believe in the rule of law by default. That programming in itself makes it hard to go against this lifelong belief in doing things by the book.
I hope they can do what they can to resist, but I also don't believe this is on them either. If the former President in a position of power couldn't put the brakes on this shit; if we as a society couldn't put the brakes on this on November 5th... Well, my expectations are very low. Things will have to come crashing down hard until the apathetic and ignorant wake up, I suspect.
but these are civil servants who inherently believe in the rule of law by default. That programming in itself makes it hard to go against this lifelong belief in doing things by the book.
Most simple sabotage is doing things EXACTLY by the book... Civil servants often take shortcuts to expedite things. They should take ZERO shortcuts.
Elon toadie asks for a set of creds. Demand Toadie get all appropriate forms completed, first, and then demand documented procedure for obtaining those creds are followed TO THE LETTER. No rush jobs. No prodding the ticket holder for updates. Just exactly like the book says to do it.
Just an example.
This is called "work to rule" and it is one of the most classic kinds of industrial action, pretty much one step short of a strike.
It’s easy to volunteer other people, but these are civil servants who inherently believe in the rule of law by default. That programming in itself makes it hard to go against this lifelong belief in doing things by the book.
It also means risking their livelihood, which I expect in many cases is an even greater deterrent than an aversion to rule breaking.
How would sabotage help when destroying the government is Musk's and Trump's goal?
It slows them down. Which is what we can hope for, until people get a bit more organized into other forms of resistance.