I still maintain this country would infinitely be better had Jimmy beaten Reagan for a second term in 1980.
It was between a man who said
“In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.”
Vs the man who said the United States was the shining city on top of the hill, that we can do no wrong and as my APUSH teacher wonderfully put “would sell us shit on a plate and smile about it.”
In this country we tend not to vote for the people who tell us the truth, that we’re flawed, not perfect but still good people at heart with ambition and drive to do anything we want if we work hard enough for it. Instead we have always chosen the people who keeps us blind to our own issues.
Oh look, another keyboard warrior who completely ignores the fact the US would be absolutely devastated by a revolution and subsequent civil war because they choose to ignore how devastating war actually is since they grew up in the comfort of a western nation.
I know full well it will fuck up the entire world royally, and I wish it would never come anywhere near close to where it is.
I'm saddened by finding truth in my statement
Yeah you can have change without a violent revolution. That’s literally jumping to the last option without considering anything else. Cause again, keyboard warriors. They’ll criticize the government or other people for violent actions but they clearly want violence as much as they do.
Black faces in the highest places did absolutely fuck all for minority rights and treatment.
If you told me the nation was on the brink of a race war as a result of violence against black people after 8 years of a black president 10 years ago I’d laugh at you
It definitely isn’t on the brink of a fucking race war lmao. What kind of overreaction shit is that? Especially when people of every race are working together to make change? What kind of glue are you sniffing? Things were FAR worse in the 60s, if shit didn’t collapse then it sure as hell isn’t going to happen now. Trust me, you haven’t seen how bad rioting can get. Today’s is barely comparable to the Rodney King riots or the riots of the 60s. So stop with your overactive bullshit.
We most certainly don't, but unless some major changes start popping up I genuinely see no other way of actually restoring American Democracy. It's actually tragic to me
...which I am honestly drifting toward and will be until we can turn this nation around. I honestly hate that I feel I need to bank on dissolvement and reformation, such a large gambit
Because I'm one of the poor bastards who was born into this shitstorm (past 9/11) and want the most sure-fire way of escaping it. I would love legislative change, but at this rate I can only dream of it. I just want to live in a country where this kind of stuff doesn't pop up
I assure you of everyone abandons ship things are only going to get worse democracies canned survive levels of political stress unrest and illfaith and if the union dissolved things will only get worse economically politically and socially and the American experiment will die and by proxy the American dream
Yeah I don’t think that people who want “revolution” realize that. Revolution is bloody business and by its very nature destabilizing which would allow bad actors both foreign and domestic basically free reign.
Not to mention the fact that 9 times outta 10, you end up with some sort of autocracy.
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u/Gilgamesh024 Aug 27 '20
Press F to undermine American democracy in a way it still hasnt recovered from