I agree with all of this, but I am skeptical that actual degradation of society would convince conservatives that they were wrong. I assumed that they would just let Fox News tell them that everything was going great and ignore their actual lives.
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Or if the problems become too hard to ignore, they will find some scapegoats. Trans people (just trans people), or young people being too woke and lazy or something.
jul 3, 2025, 2:10 pm • 2 0 • view
100%. They think everything that goes wrong is Biden's fault. Hell, they blame Biden for the things they didn't like about the pandemic response in 2020.
jul 3, 2025, 2:11 pm • 4 0 • view
LOL, so true about 2020! Rabid MAGAts will process it as you say. Marginal voters blame whoever's in office, in this case justifiably. It's the latter who decide national elections.
jul 3, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ll just say they deported all the criminals & are now ready to import all the good, skilled ppl who will make America great through a proper immigration process we didn’t have before bc of Biden.
jul 3, 2025, 2:38 pm • 2 0 • view
The frothing racists are also rabid capitalists?
jul 3, 2025, 2:13 pm • 12 0 • view
I'm a little puzzled by this. Maybe I'm missing some serious pushback from greedy, but less ideological rich folks. Musk is publicly complaining, but it doesn't seem to be breaking through. I think part of the answer is that most of the Right is drunk on right-wing media.
jul 3, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 0 • view
There’s behind the scenes begging from farmers and construction businesses. Not nearly enough currently to overcome the hatred and racism pushing for concentration camps, plus very strong private prison lobby.
jul 3, 2025, 2:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Capitalism fails without labor to exploit. Immigrants without permission to immigrate are a great source of exploitable labor. Our xenophobic immigration laws make it difficult to legally immigrate, on purpose, in order to ensure a steady supply of cheap labor.
jul 3, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Prison labor is even cheaper than undocumented immigrants, with the added ”benefit” of allowing the prisons themselves to extract a profit. What we’re doing now, by making immigrants prisoners, is making an even cheaper labor force.
jul 3, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s probably why there isn’t a lot of pushback from the capitalists. It’s depressing.
jul 3, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, Wall Street is a house of cards
jul 3, 2025, 2:24 pm • 9 0 • view
Who is going to clean their diapers….?
jul 3, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Good question, but also important to consider who they will blame while they're sitting in their own shit. I think there's a good chance that they'll blame Democrats and immigrants, no matter what happens.
jul 3, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 3, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view