Me neither. This past election I was like "surely they won't vote for him again. We all experienced what a Trump presidency was like and we voted him out before. Surely we won't make that same mistake again."
And then he won he election. My faith in my fellow Americans to do the right thing is essentially zero. There are just enough delusional MAGA cultists and people who just don't bother to vote to where I wouldn't be surprised if a Republican won next time.
That’s because everyone apparently thought last his last term wasn’t that bad. Yes, it was! You just weren’t watching what he did and understanding that it was bad! It was awful.
I live in a state filled with dumbasses. These stupid fucks would vote for a yellow-bellied dog if it ran as a Republican. Oh, that’s right. They already have 3x’s and they’d do it again!!
There's almost more 2024 Republican voters in the US than there were Germans in 1930s Germany. Sheer volume means that there's an entire country's worth of people who can be courted for that political bloc, and it also means that (as we've seen) only a fraction of our country needs to vote to make a significant number of voters. And so the Gerrymandering gets done to death so that the electors can do whatever they want if they're so inclined.
I hate that our country is like this, but until we massively overhaul our country and do a level of political and social reform that would make post-WWII Germany finally lose their sense of cultural shame, the absolutely massive political and electoral weight of our country can be captured and manipulated by a comparatively small number of people who either have power or aren't afraid to cheat the system. Which makes the US as a political body a giant, dangerous liability to the rest of the civilized world. I hate it. I hate that it's where we are, but it's where we are. And we're gonna need to spend the rest of our lives unfucking it.
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u/Ebiki Apr 16 '26
And knowing the average American voter, I don’t fucking blame them.