For those of you who correctly think change will take too long to cushion our descent into the Mad Max-type apocalypse, here's a heartwarming factoid that should give you hope:
The 27th Amendment, the one where congress critters can't give themselves a raise effectively immediately, they have to wait a year or two before getting their extra scooby snacks, took 202 years to get ratified by the states.
cvaniafan wrote:
I have tried to understand why Bidden's victory has been so difficult and uncertain, and I think I get it.
Actually, Trump was good on an economical point of view, better than Obama. He was great for Wall Street and the GAFAM for sure, but not only. He also created 5 millions employments, drastically reduced taxes and regulations on companies and company-making (which greatly helped the employments), he reduced the bill of 100 billions on the chinese importations, and the US has become first with shale-gas.
Don't... don't let them pour this kind of poison into your mind. The line only matters to capitalists and the lackeys of capitalists, it has nothing to do with the actual life of the average person outside of the coastal cities.
The actual real-world participation rate is lower than it was after the 2007 recession. This should be obvious - why would there be a higher job:population ratio? Wal-Mart services territory, not people. The scaling inherently favors a smaller ratio; this is disregarding productivity, squeezing more out of employees to get small single digit improved returns, etc.
A shit ton of people are simply disillusioned with our government. It isn't about wonky TV numbers stuff,
it's about corruption. When you have the entirety of congress, hollywood, and the news in Biden's corner, it's rather easy to draw the assumption the guy does not have our best interests in mind.
And on the other hand, the white supremacy, USA chauvinism, whatever you want to call it... it appeals to a faction of people as well. One of the oldest tricks of coalitions based on a racial and+or religious majority, is to expand slightly who gets to be a part of that majority when it is in danger of not being the majority any more. In our past that included letting catholics and the irish into their clubhouse, stuff like that.
Anyway, "make America great again" is a better message than "
America is already great, it's got just one problem". If Trump wasn't so transparently full of shit about caring about the peasants, and he wasn't presiding over a dumpster fire of a year, this would have been a cake walk.
Guess who gets to be responsible for the dumpster fire of 2024 with no plan to ameliorate any of those calamities.
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A lot of Trump fans just listen to what he says and pay no attention to what he does. I'm on board with a lot of his 2016 promises. End the forever war, drain the swamp, bring outsourced jobs back, lock her up, all good things. Too bad it wasn't real.
^ See, he's basically Bernie Sanders if you only get information from TV and you're not paying much attention or thinking about it too much.