As someone looking in from the outside, there are very few signs that this "eventually " is ever going to happen. You as a country had the power to stop this in its tracks by not electing trump but apathy and an unwillingness to elect a (black) woman put paid to that. That same apathy is even 1/
2/ apparent now. With every unconstitutional edict, your fascist dictator cements an even stronger foothold with his minions running riot within your government departments. This eventually is going to take a bit more than people on the streets waving placards, I honestly don't think you have the...
3/ hunger for what's going to be needed next.
Not yet, but soon. We Americans are provided so little from our gov., which gives everything to the rich. People are not going to settle for getting even less. Many Trump voters can’t yet admit to themselves that they were lied to & deceived. They will have to have their money stolen from them first
I'm afraid that soon won't be soon enough. The fascist takeover is almost complete. And the entire planet may have to deal with what potentially could come next.
I can’t allow myself that sense of futile hopelessness. I have children. But I’ve grieved over the last 53 days. The problems in our country are deep. The racist, misogynistic, cultural rot that got us here has been championed by the next generation of men. And only the rich matter in the USA.
Your entire nation is built on greed and selfishness. bsky.app/profile/garl...
Most of the country already has “settled.”
To our benefit, Trump & his minions are profoundly incompetent, unqualified and ideologically misaligned. More and more Americans are seeing through the facade. I’m in despair, but have I have hope. Things felt bleak even before Trump’s second term. Shootings, unaffordable healthcare. We are angry.
What trump and DOGE under musk are doing doesn't really need much in the way of qualifications and competency. Smashing things that took many decades to build needs little more than a few big hammers and the skill to swing them!
They are ruining the few things left that made our country “great” - namely, scientific and medical research and our beautiful public lands.
Exactly what I mean when I say that he's running by Hitler's playbook. And exactly why it's going to take much much more than a few thousand folk standing on street corners waving placards.
I agree. To many people here just don’t believe it yet. They are ignorant or avoiding reality. We will all have to be hurt before anything changes.
Sadly, I couldn’t agree more. Patriotism and resistance works great in Hollywood, but the reality is Americans are just going to continue to roll over and take it.
You are right that there is apathy, and also vast stupidity. Only a third of voters picked Trump. Another third didn’t vote. MAGA voters will suffer the brunt of Trump’s policy decisions- they just don’t realize it yet. It’s a cult. Many other Americans are protesting, resisting and will continue.
Oh I know some Americans are protesting, but there are few signs of anything cohesive, very little, away from social media, in the way of resistance. In a country of 340 million, these protests and resistance need to be registering in the 10s of millions. A couple of thousand here and there 1/
2/ isn't going to be good enough. Direct action on an enormous scale are going to be needed. And even then, it's highly unlikely that trump will bend he'll just sign more edicts, further eroding any and all of your constitutional rights. This is exactly how Hitler did it, it's his playbook.
There’s a general understanding that more organization is needed because Trump will declare martial law.After this week, we know concretely that our Democratic Party is a failure. We are officially on our own.There is profound anger and energy across diverse political spectrums. It’s just beginning.
They had 15 years to overturn Citizens United. They did nothing. Now they're "sorry".