How U.S. Politics Has Shifted
I distinctly recall the U.S. politics of the 1980s and 90s, and how close the two main parties were ideologically. In particular, they were both engaged in corruption, feeding off large donors in exchange for favors, and virtually united in their neoliberalism, i.e., favoring the reduction of government influence in the economy through privatization and austerity.
I wasn’t one of them, but there were people who didn’t vote because the two parties were almost completely indistinguishable from one another.
As shown in the meme here, that’s no longer the case. Corruption hasn’t gotten any better, but….
One can argue that the Democrats should be doing more to protect the environment and to improve the well-being of the common American.
But the Republicans have simply lost their minds.
People say the GOP is going to win big in the midterms, but exactly how is that to work out?
Yes, I understand that voters are frustrated by inflation and that most of them are too ignorant to know that this is global, not just a national phenomenon. But how many parents seriously believe their kids’ teachers are promoting homo/transsexuality, socialism, hatred of white people, and resentment of the police?
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I wouldn’t say the Republican party “stands for nothing.”
An old school chum, now the president of a major university in Texas, says, “The only person in America who makes (Texas governor) Greg Abbott look good is (Florida governor) Ron DeSantis.”
I too am skeptical of people who claim to be experts in cryptocurrencies. But my suspicions are raised even higher when the same people have previously been experts in epidemiology and constitutional law.
It’s important to keep in mind that the United States is making real social progress, even in the face of all the stupidity.
There appears to be so much nonsense in today’s political strategies here in the U.S. Obviously the far-right wing is getting great mileage out of ridiculing the idea of “wokeness,” a word that hateful and ignorant people use to discredit the values that all Americans used to share: fairness, compassion, and decency. But do you seriously want to direct this anger against Disney?
Was Russia’s support of Donald Trump and its intervention in our 2016 elections an act of deliberate sabotage?
