This what gets me about modern American politics or even the American population in general
They are having a never ending debate about whether or not they want a normal average politician … or a deranged elderly sociopath who is obviously losing his mental abilities and has fascist leanings.
I’m not alarmed about Turnip … I’m alarmed of the general American culture that has normalized all this.
Because if they will allow all the crap that is happening now … what will they allow next?
This. It’s not an election, it’s what’s next. Is every American election just going to be “Outright Fascism vs. Traditional Conservatism?” Is it always going to be this unrelenting and horrible from now on? Trump losing would be a good thing, but it doesn’t fix the problem.
The way I see it, the problems are that we’ve lost trust in the concept of society. We don’t trust expertise. That’s not even a right vs left thing. I know it’s unpopular to “both sides” these things, but in truth it’s not even a matter of sides: Everyone of all political stripes just disregards what they don’t want to hear.
At the same time, truth is getting harder to discern anyway. Botnets distributing and promoting misinformation, deepfakes making lies look real, and hordes of the financially incentivized pushing whatever their audience wants to hear over what is real.
Anyway, I try to be optimistic but I just don’t see how things will actually get better.
This what gets me about modern American politics or even the American population in general
They are having a never ending debate about whether or not they want a normal average politician … or a deranged elderly sociopath who is obviously losing his mental abilities and has fascist leanings.
I’m not alarmed about Turnip … I’m alarmed of the general American culture that has normalized all this.
Because if they will allow all the crap that is happening now … what will they allow next?
This. It’s not an election, it’s what’s next. Is every American election just going to be “Outright Fascism vs. Traditional Conservatism?” Is it always going to be this unrelenting and horrible from now on? Trump losing would be a good thing, but it doesn’t fix the problem.
The way I see it, the problems are that we’ve lost trust in the concept of society. We don’t trust expertise. That’s not even a right vs left thing. I know it’s unpopular to “both sides” these things, but in truth it’s not even a matter of sides: Everyone of all political stripes just disregards what they don’t want to hear.
At the same time, truth is getting harder to discern anyway. Botnets distributing and promoting misinformation, deepfakes making lies look real, and hordes of the financially incentivized pushing whatever their audience wants to hear over what is real.
Anyway, I try to be optimistic but I just don’t see how things will actually get better.