It was a bad election cycle for incumbents worldwide. Many Americans are hurting from the cost of living and wanted a change. I know many who are definitely not racist (in interracial marriages/relationships even) who voted for Trump just on the hope for an improved economy.
That goes to the exact point about the media. Trump trashed the economy during Covid with trillions in new dollars so that that all important Line would continue to go up rather than reflect the reality of a global pandemic. The Biden administration did a decent job getting the price inflation from that under control, but rather than giving credit where credit is due, the oligarchic media continued to agitate against the incumbent who wasn't all-in on corporate rule. Cue a whole bunch of low-information voters for the New York con artist on vague "hope" for improvement, when everyone using at least half their brain knew that the policies Trump was promising would be highly destructive to our economy.
Biden has his flaws but I feel like he wasn't trying to appear strong, he did what he thought was right for his country ie. give power to those who could help the nation but somehow he got projected weak because of it even if numbers were doing good
Trump's doing the literal opposite. This is why Trump wants to trashtalk Biden so much
Somehow getting "projected weak" is the oligarch owned media, isn't it? It's the media reporting truthfully, but framed in a pro-Trump way, or just not reporting on Trump very emphatically. You could read bias into the oligarch owned media because of thar.
I will have to agree you on this one even as a trump hater because i do feel like somehow people imagined that trump's gonna make all things affordable somehow (the same people now turning to mamdani see maga for mamdani movement no jokes)
i do feel like this is a pipeline
Disagree with some aspects of democrats? boom you are a republican
Disagree with some aspects of Republicans? boom you are a democrat
It's just picking the less worst candidate and media influence as such values a lot in the perception of "loss"
Obviously trump has been the more worst candidate in comparison and there were already tell tale signs of it
It's a shame that bernie sanders hasn't been an American president or the bias you see at democrats because of it regarding bernie or not pushing bernie at times.
That being said, what trump is doing so abhorent that Its literally killing the nation so I feel like some blame should be placed in its voters.
I genuinely just hope that you guys re-evaluate your two party system. You need a grass roots movement of independent to take on the system from within with the promise of changing the voting system to some better more independent or similar.
But looks like America's not gonna have mid term elections (Trump joked about it just as how he joked about greeland)
How does one fuck up a country that I used to admire a few years back into something that even I am comparing it to Iran & in many cases worse.
I do feel like Histories being written in front of our own eyes tho, Historians are also gonna analyze the average opinion on what's happening and we are gonna witness something in decades to come, "but why didn't they take action when all of this was happening, surely everyone could agree it was wrong" (this was my first thought reading about slavery/ pre-french revolution)
Now I understand how it feels like.
So right now's the perfect time to call bullshit on trump and impeach him or support the idea in the time being even you may've voted republican.
I do feel like America's gone to the point of no return but the only thing America can do right now is risk mitigation because chances are, war does feel more real now.
I am not american but first and foremost, whether or not if you are a democrat or republican, you all are american so why are some of you still defending a country which is breaching or trying to breach the sovereignity of another country and a guy who looks like hes all hell bent on breaking the ideas America was established on.
Cut the losses of the survivorship bias and do what's right. The world's watching.