BK38
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Orange man bad eh?
Trump if he gets in for another term will leave at the end of it. Whether there is still a United States of America at that point is a completely different question.
The extreme polarization of US political thought has meant that the coastal and metropolitan elites in their bubbles can't understand the thinking in the hinterlands, likewise the hinterlands think the coastal elite are using their advantages to screw them over (probably they are!)
To blame Trump as personification of this, as a golem to rail at is pointless. Trump is a symptom of something larger not the cause. Until you can see things from alternative viewpoints, walk a mile in someone elses shoes, you will constantly be surprised and disappointed. I keep hearing people say Trump voters are dumb, I guess their position is I am not dumb because I don't vote Trump therefore people who do must be dumb?
If the Dems had run Bernie and Gabbard, Gabbard would have picked up a lot of the hinterland Trump supporters, Bernie would have picked up the metropolitans and the Dem base would have gone and hustled, game over for Trump who has never had an overall approval rating of over 50%. The Dems wouldn't do this because the DNC answers to their coroporate sponsors, to their billionaire donors, not to the base. They arrogantly assume that the base will support whatever shit is presented to them, maybe they will begrudgingly, but they ain't going to hustle to convince, and preaching to the choir is not going to work here. You don't need to convince the converted, you need to convince the unconverted heathens..
See ya'all in another 4 years for another game of which face of the Uniparty gets to pull the levers. Whether Biden or Trump or Harris or Pence are sitting in the Oval office it makes no real difference, they are all swamp creatures and they have a different set of priorities to the people of the USA.
Well said.