It’s difficult to pinpoint the moment in my life where America started to lose the plot.
It would be easy to wallow in this mess—to doomscroll as the world washes away.
But on this anniversary of the United States of America, I believe we are not without hope. It may feel like America has been careening along the highway of enshittification since the turn of the century, but the thing about driving on highways is that you can always take an off-ramp. The truly remarkable thing about this country is its ingenious ability—through elections, immigration, freedom of speech, and economic mobility—to constantly remake itself.
We need to become makers once again, working against the rage, the despair, the grifting, and the misinformation wherever we find them. And we can. Based simply on what I’ve seen as a journalist over the last quarter century, reasons for hope remain. It can be useful once in while to gather these reasons about us as armor against despair.
The truly remarkable thing about this country is its ingenious ability—through elections, immigration, freedom of speech, and economic mobility—to constantly remake itself.
I’ve heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. I don’t know where that comes from necessarily, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
I hope republicans lose every fucking race in every fucking county, every fucking city, every fucking state, and every fucking government job!!! I hope I never hear the word “MAGA” again after Lord Feltersnatch is dead and gone!!! I hope,I hope, I fucking hope!
Sadly it won’t happen. Sure some won’t vote Republican in the next election because gas is expensive or some other shallow reason like that. Then a Democrat comes in, bring some superficial sense of normalcy to the state of things. Then in the next election they will vote Republican again and you’ll go through the same shit all over. This has been the cycle since Bush’s term? Probably earlier.
American politics won’t change without deep structural reforms and I don’t see those happening any time soon.
For me the positive is of all of this is that nothing he’s doing has not been codified into law so it can all be undone
With a single executive order the next president can undo every single thing Trump has done.
While you’re not wrong, it’s also not the whole story. The damage he’s done will take decades to undo just to break even. Simply reversing his EOs won’t raise the dead, or rebuilt the knowledge and skills that have been lost. Our grandchildren, if there be any, will still be dealing with the consequences of what has happened in the last 2 years.
Reversing his EO’s won’t raise the dead but I don’t think there will be a problem getting the experienced people back nor does their knowledge disappear simply because our mid-grade have learned over the last decade.
We should be able to put the foundation of government back together fairly quickly so domestic issues will likely be resolved quickly, but the trust that our foreign policy is built on has been scrapped for decades
First order of business has to be legislation to keep this from ever happening again.
No more felons in the white-house…or congress for that matter. No more moneymaking by people who get a government paycheck. Period. If you make 175K/year, that is the top limit of what you should be allowed to earn over the course of your time in government…
if you’re there to make money, nope.
Just keep it quiet before that asshole comes after us all. Some because they sold their cake incorrectly or popped in the wrong toilet or said the wrong thing. WTF!
I hate polls… the more polls show democrats ahead, the more money the billionare class is going to pour into defeating them in those races. It’s giving them a fucking roadmap.
The only poll that matters is November.
My pole quit working years ago but I can still vote and I wouldn’t vote for a republican even for a dog shit picker upper position!
