My (sad) outlook on America, its values and now
Yes, I admit it. I underestimated the felon in 2016, laughed at the announcement about him running and didn’t think it would actually happen once, let alone a second time. I correctly predicted between trump and Hillary whoever got in would lose in 2020. As a Bernie supporter, I wasn’t crazy about Hillary, but I still voted for her.
What I wasn’t expecting was 2024. I gave the electorate too much credit over trump, hence my underestimation.
We all know the rap sheet about the greatest con artist of all time, a mile long by now. People decided COVID, J6, Dobbs, all the felonies weren’t dealbreakers. In fact, they felt more compelled to vote for the felon that people tried to actually hold someone rich and powerful accountable for a change. You know, like other civilized countries actually do (South Korea, UK, Brazil, etc.).
And more and more people are waking up to what we’ve spent years screaming from the rooftops. They thought it would be fun to own the libs, and here they are, they’ve owned themselves. People don’t care about underage victims of sexual abuse, but those gas prices sure are getting their attention. Inconvenience a partly uninformed electorate in the slightest way and they’ll have your head, regardless of all of your transgressions. Don’t we have such wonderful values in this country? Our side might win in a bloodbath this year and two years from now. We might even exceed our performances from 2006 and 2008.
Even so, what I nevertheless find unsettling are the how and the why - not because US soldiers and Iranian schoolgirls got killed, not because all of the damage done to this country, not because of the immunity, not because of a corrupt rogue police state, but because they’re feeling some of the pain. What wonderful values we have.
And then there’s the cult. I would snap my fingers to vanish them from the planet in a heartbeat if I could. Yet, as loathsome as they are, as despicable as they are, I can’t help but find out how pathetic and pitiful they are. There was a time they at least pretended to have some principles - no war, holding child sex abusers accountable, freedom, prices, the debt, etc. Now, I see these loons willing to spend however much money to run up our debt without a care in the world, still supporting their false idol even if he did rape children, being in favor of bombing Iran and not caring about dead American soldiers or dead Iranian schoolgirls all while their cult leader disrespects our servicemen and women by saluting them while wearing his own campaign gear. They’re willing to pay more in gas over this (which tells me 2021-2025 wasn’t really about gas prices, was it?) Then they’ll point to how it was worse under President Biden, when they won’t look at the whys - why gas went up in 2021 and 2022 compared to why gas is up now.
MAGA isn’t about supporting someone who champions their values, they’re a cult around one creature and will gladly change their own values to justify their support.
We might win, we might win big. We could take both houses of Congress this year and run away with the presidency in 2028. What will change? What will actually change? And even if we exceeded our performances from 2006 and 2008, it’ll still be unsettling as to why voters voted to give us power again - to help *them* and so many being callous enough not to care for anybody else or any other injustices perpetrated by the most sociopathic White House in history.
There’s something in the water here, and not in a good way.
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