Global Politics - General Chat

[Aragorn]

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.

It's going to take someone with policies that are actually transformative, like raising the minimum wage to a living wage, genuinely punishing price gougers and restoring a robust middle class to finally break this cycle of nonsense.  But so long as the establishment has its way, that's never gonna happen.

My hope is that, come 2028, either AOC or Tim Walz is our nominee because they're the only ones with the records and rhetoric of actually doing good by people.  But anyone else, and it's just a bandaid, and not even really that, since most establishment dems are almost as bad on foreign policy as the right is.

I'm honestly past the point of giving the people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the status quo, in that people ''don't know'' or are being swung around like a baseball bat with no agency. The American consciousness knows, and is well aware of what America is. Most are either some form of content or apathetic. Democrats don't have their hands tied either; people often say that the Dems constantly try to play ball while the republicans do what they want and it's because they are closer in goal and agenda than they are painted as. America has no left, not even a true center (centralism in politics is bullshit anyways but different subject).

There is no solution within the establishment.