Democracy Derailing
America is so screwed.
So….whaddya make of the whole failed assassination attempt on Trump? Personally, I think America was already screwed, but now everything is gonna be just that much worse. One of my smart friends called it his “Reichstag moment” and I had to look up the finer details of what that meant. Reichstag fire — Wikipedia. I think he nailed it on the head. In short, it allowed the Nazi party to use it as an excuse to suspend all kinds of liberties. I can totally see something similar happening here. The only difference is Trump’s party isn’t (officially) in power yet. At least, not in the traditional sense. The GOP already captured the Supreme Court, though, and that’s where they yield the most influence anyway. I mean, the Dems are "officially" in control, but look at all the crap the Supreme Court passed in the last few years. American Democracy is dead, dead, dead. It doesn’t even matter that the shooter missed. The results would’ve been the same either way.
So many conspiracy theories are flying already. However, that kid fits the classic American profile of an active shooter: 20-year-old, socially awkward, Caucasian, and male. I have no idea why the snipers didn’t take him out, though, after so many bystanders pointed him out in advance. That’s a head scratcher, for sure. Honestly, I don’t care what the answer might be because it doesn’t freaking matter.
Here’s something I read on Reddit:
The truth about this whole thing with Trump is that the politicians on both sides have made the average citizen’s life a living hell. When you combine this with how meaningless and pointless the voting system and protesting and all that has been proven, what did you expect? This feels like an inevitability. Sadly, or however you may emotionally take it, it will continue to rise as desperate people try desperate measures to change anything.
This will only make the GOP and his side even more likely to embolden him that it was divine intervention by God. While Biden’s silly ass is still somewhere stomping around on a grassy knoll, confused, and blowing up kids in Gaza.
Seems the stakes in this game are over for real. They both work for the same people, and both want the same outcomes despite what both of these crazy ass old men are saying.
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I’m honestly just surprised it took this long. And on the other hand, I’m not surprised, given the elites can so thoroughly shield themselves from the awful world they’ve created.
People are poorer than ever. More in debt than ever. Feel like they have less of a say in leadership than ever. Apathy, poverty, and lack of societal investment/infrastructure just all breed a dystopia. You can do every “right” thing in this country, follow all the rules, and be antagonized. Students going into debt for life were beaten half to death by the police on their own campus for setting up tents. How could you not be apathetic and hopeless?
This is just what happens. It will bleed into the lives of everyone as the dystopia continues to expand and take down more people. The only difference between today and a shooting at a concert or grocery store is who one of the targets was. This is what the rot manifests into. And there is no end to it in this country.
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Politics is war without bloodshed. When people no longer feel like the political institutions can respond to their problems, they have no need for them anymore, and the only recourse is to take matters into their own hands. That’s an inevitability of the system decaying, and it’s why all this breathless condemnation of ‘political violence’ is so annoying. If you don’t want political violence, don’t push people into circumstances where they feel like they have to resort to it. Like everything, idiotic brainless people can only view every problem in terms of the way it presents in individuals instead of the systemic forces that push those individuals into that mindset in the first place.
Political violence is ALWAYS THE FAULT OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM ITSELF. Not individual actors or people who ‘advocate’ for it.
There’s more if you care to read it.
Agh. I just don’t have the energy to care anymore. America has a dark future ahead since we continuously fail to ask the hard questions as to why things like keep happening here. Our country’s problems supersede political divides.
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