Quote by Milik_the_Red
And there are a lot of democratic doners outraged by that. They are refusing to donate to his library over it.
Biden is being held accountable for hiding his condition and even running for a second term.
This is as it should be. Had he stepped aside and not run, we wouldn't be in this mess now.
But frankly, had the left been walking their economic ideals all along MAGA never would have risen. So, yes, this was a systemic neglegance and arrogance in the party that was typified with the voters when Debbie Wasswerman Shultz manipulated the party to ensure Hillery and her corporate cronies won the 2016 nomination
That effectively split the democrats between the progressives and what Americans consider centrists.
That split remains and can be seen by the progressives holding votes away from Harris in 2024 over the Palestinian issue even though it was obvious the Republicans were going to be 100% vassals to Netanyahu.
The left was fractured, and as a result simply failed to show up for Harris the way they did Biden in 2020.
The right, on the other hand has been unified by anger. Racist anger brought on by the election and success of Barak Obama. That had a much deeper affect on the right than most, from my observations, realize.
That bigotry was further inflamed by progressive polices toward protections to specific groups such as the Trans community and immigrants. Not just the undocumented, the Right will claim they’re only worried about those, but the truth is they just don’t want brown people coming into the country and we can see that in Trumps policies.
The isolationists in the right are only recently reappearing in force and they’ve managed to push out the Reagan Republicans who are pro NATO and pro interventionist and pro American power in favor of us abandoning our commitments over overseas.
This seems inexplicable to people who don’t understand where this ground swell came from, but after talking with conservatives for many years IN informal conversational settings, I know exactly why they’re feeling this way
And they have a point even if it’s completely misguided
In a nutshell, their argument is this, we’ve been fighting the war on terror for a generation and all we’ve gotten for it is condemnation from our friends and the international community
What we viewed as a noble effort, was turned on us as us being the problem
And so many in the right has simply said screw it. We’re not going to be the problem anymore.
Deal with it yourself.
I don’t agree with this opinion, but I’ve talked to people about it in their circles for a long period of time and in detail and many of their arguments are true on the surface
And there’s a certain arrogance that’s come from overseas. That’s only made this much worse.
The result of all this is, I don’t see the United States pulling out of this anytime in the near future I believe that Donald Trump is going to pass away before the end of his term and the Democrats will be able to take some control, but this schism and the American populous isn’t going away and the mismanagement brought on by the Republicans towards education and business practices regarding international relations and immigration are going to haunt us for decades
And that’s not good for us or the world because without the United States economically strong, the world loses its largest market without the American military to keep nations like Russia and China in check they’re going to start enforcing their will on the world and the only people who have the ability to stand up and stop it is Europe.
And I don’t think Europe has the intention of spending $1 a year on military expenditures nor do I think they have the will to carry on active intervention the way United States has. And the truth is the United States is simply not going to do it anymore.
Now, I don’t agree with any of this, but sitting here living in a red state now and having spent my working life in a very conservative area of a blue state, I know exactly where they’re coming from
A long response, most of it not about what I said. But let's just see, if the cracks will get bigger, and how fast, or not. And will Musk be sponsoring Trump's library?
As for terrorism and the US being the problem, I didn't believe that. The US did provide many wrongs to point at though (IS may not have happened if the US had not invaded Iraq for instance, which they did under false pretences), but it was not the root cause. Backward religious dramaqueens were the root cause.
What's currently happening in Gaza though, or even in the Palestinian territories as a whole, that may be a different issue. Israel's genocidal actions surely make for a future terrorist breeding ground. And I'm sure the US' unconditional support (in large part based on backward religious ideas), without which Israel could not have gone on with it for as long as it has, will not be forgotten.
