Sometimes I wonder if the US is going to have to hit "rock bottom"

[Thtwudbeme]

We have been watching the uneducated, the rural, the "evangelicals" vote to lower taxes on the wealthy for years now.

When we drive up into the mountains of NC, we pass 25-30 year old rusted out, bare tired pickup trucks with Trump flags.

The more run down the homes on the sides of the roads- Trump flags. One has a "Fuck Biden" sign.

For some bizarre reason, people like that woman- what's her name- Lauren Boehbert (no, I don't care if it's spelled wrong)- get elected, even though it's pretty clear she's an idiot.

I think legal and safe abortion is going down- I really do.

More kids are being shot in schools- and the US wrings it's collective hands and moans, "What's the answer????"

Hundreds of thousands of people are going to lose their homes to medical debt.

More than hundreds of thousands think a fucking vaccine is a "plot" that's somehow "out to get them."

Is it going to take a massive economic depression? Dead people on the streets? Babies sold like they were in the 20's and 30's? (My great aunt was one of those). What the FUCK is it going to take to get through to these "conservatives" that they are voting AGAINST themselves?

[Duncanpup]

1. Great read

[BlueJac]

2. We liberals might just be too nice to them!

This is just my opinion and I might be trashed for saying it , but I have had it. The non conservative party is the party of NO, NO THIS NO THAT NO COMMON SENSE. Time to call them what they are. Haters of Democracy. Rant over.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. There Is No Bottom

I feel confident that America can always go lower.

I think we'll be much worse off in 10 years, and still be asking the same question. How low can we go?

Always lower than previously thought imaginable.

Will 50 School kids getting slaughtered be rock bottom? 100? Sandy Hook obviously wasn't enough. 61 concert goers in Vegas wasn't enough.

[NewHendoLib]

4. Not just the US. Our species is in a tailspin everywhere.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. I hope not all of us but GOP voters could certainly use a moment of clarity.