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Trump says it’s ‘treasonous’ to say US not winning war in Iran
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Why are Americans so weak and ineffective? why are they ok being led by a demented, racist, old pervert?
I think America is too big and too stratified, it is no longer possible for young and interested people to guide the nation. Only aging people with great wealth can ever have a shot at control, and their beliefs are extremely dated by default. Also, our founding document is about 250 years of age, and wasn't built for a coast-to-coast nation of high technology. There weren't many democracies nor republics to model our society after, so we didn't have much foreknowledge of the pitfalls that could happen.
Sheer inertia of belief, wealth, and flawed design, underpin America's problems. Franklin Roosevelt delayed the destruction of the America we knew, and our modern political critters have squandered the opportunity to save the ship.
This America, is almost certain to die. The great question, is what things will replace it?
I think there is a real, deep seated conditioned response in a lot of Americans to just assume things will work out and it will be OK in the long run. Basically a form of privilege to not worry about the problems of the world because somebody else will definitely fix it.
I'm a white male american born into conservative culture who grew up in the 80s and 90s , and I definitely had that feeling instilled in my head along the way. For gen x and boomers who spent more of their early years in more of the post-ww2 US dominance, it's probably worse.
Also probably help that actually removing him is extremely hard at best. The political method is basically dead on arrival since the courts are captured, the Republicans are in favor of him, and the Democrats don't have enough will to actually do anything outside of maybe a hundred people across Congress. Seriously there should be Congress criters killing each other with canes at this point but no that's uncivil, hell at minimum Dems should be spitting in the face of pissbags like Johnson and McConnell.
As for the violent methods, basically all of them are scatter shot at best. You could summon up a militia and march right up to the Whitehouse to lynch him and the end result would probably be somewhere between the Bonus Army and the Tiananmen Square massacre.
I have an lbgt family member that voted for him. There really is societal conditioning at play.
That's what Americans are.