Global Politics - General Chat

[NateDog]

The problem with the United States is that, collectively, voters have a very poor memory.  Look at how many people have already forgotten about "SignalGate", or, more importantly, that Trump just straight up bombed innocent civilians in Yemen.  Didn't even last two weeks because there's always something new and horrible happening, and even the pain of these tariffs will be forgotten by voters sooner or later.  So even if democrats take over in 2026 and in 2028, I would bet that it's not going to be actual, transformative progressives taking over, but more status quo warriors like my dear publicity-seeking governor, Greasy Gavin.  None of them have the will or desire to finally stop arming and funding monsters like Netanyahu or the Saudi Prince.  Nor do they have the desire to actually address the issues back home.  And because the establishment liberals only want to do incremental change, voters will get dissatisfied and immediately vote republicans back into power.

Can't speak for other countries but it's effectively the very same here in Ireland. Can't tell you the number of times since the millennium that from election to election we've just flip-flopped back and forth between the very same groups. People seem to think just going the other way will fix things, then it doesn't happen so they go back again, then it doesn't happen so they go back again and so on and so forth. Every failure or embarrassment is the biggest thing in the universe until it's not 10 minutes later.