And it’s funny how the answer seems to be turning to the right wing. Concept that makes absolutely no sense
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I grew up in a very conservative area. The people in my demographic only want to see change. The right wing government under Trump has been robbing the future blind with zero regard for anyone, but the sentiment I keep hearing is a perception that something is happening. "He's deporting the criminals," "he's saving our jobs," "he's making other countries pay us," "he's making America safe," ergo the idea that progression in any direction is progress. People are stupid and short sighted when they are struggling. So the adoption of populism makes a lot of sense to me
Another anecdote, there was a guy I used to work with that would say "we have to go all the way right to come back to center" and they actually believe that would happen lol
Anyway I hate this shit so much, have a good day
I also live in a very conservative area with no hopes of moving any time soon. Your comment is spot on, they think he's actually trying to help when he is literally doing the opposite. However, it does appear that grocery prices going way up at the same time he's building a ballroom has kinda broken through to them a little bit. I'm sure they'll forget it in a week though like always :/
I’ve seen this theorised as being one of the key reasons that Harris lost. Obama campaigned on “change” and won. So did Trump. So did Biden. And Harris’ pitch was kind of “I’m going to keep doing what Biden was!”
Any political novice could see there was no right answer there.
You can't promise change when you yourself served in the government 4 straight years as VP. They'd question why you didn't do any of this stuff already
It actually makes a ton of sense and has oodles and gobs of historical precedent. Fascism is what happens during capitalist crisis. When you weaken education, revoke social safety nets, delay retirement age, encourage unaffordable housing, withhold wages, withold healthcare, and promote wealth inequality, you're going to get fascists. The emerging fascist wing is anything but irrational. They are reacting to real issues, and so they flock to the only people who appear to actually get anything done: the right.
At the moment that the “normal” police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium – the turn of the fascist regime arrives. Through the fascist agency, capitalism sets in motion the masses of the crazed petty bourgeoisie and the bands of declassed and demoralized lumpenproletariat – all the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism.
Now who says the parasites have to be biological?
It doesn't work on logic. It works on identity and feelings. Mostly anger.
Becuase the so called "Left" Democrats aren't offering any real alternatives of lasting change. Only the Right are doing that
But the rights offer is practically openly 'We want to make everything worse for everybody' shouted with extreme enthusiasm for some reason.
No, they're saying that things will get better if we get all our anger out on these specific people.
Of course it won't fix anything, but people are gullible
Can we have some [American Dream]?
We have some at home.
At home: [American Nightmare]
We're really living in a neo-liberal's wet dream.
This is all according to plan for the people making 6 figures and have homes that cost at least $400,000.
Trump isn't raising their taxes.
spoiler
Anyone who thinks millionaires are not part of the problem is a fucking idiot.
Maybe figure out a new American dream, like punching Nazis, or eating the rich
Gen X:
Actual Gen X:
GenX here... No. Just fucking no. Not in the fucking slightest.
I mean...
Kinda looks like your gen is going full boomer
Jeez look at this statistical minority give em a medal (their whole generation is ultimately just desperate for attention)
Actually, our generation is known for quite the opposite.
True
There is no political fix.
The only solution is violence.
there is no fix within the current system, it is working as intended
it needs to be reset
For many? For most.
Wouldn't revolution be considered a "political fix"?
Millennials have been saying this since 2008, and they're only seriously considering it now??
I'd say I'm surprised, but after almost two decades of being told that my concerns over housing prices, student debt, poor wages, unaffordable healthcare, etc aren't important right now because Dems need moderate Republicans to vote for them, I'm really not.
Feels that way for some of us older voters, too.