What electing Trump the second time exposed is that he is the real face of Americans, not some aberration. They care about ‘me, myself and I’ only. They only start to care about laws and policies if it negatively affects them personally. Even then, they will not do anything more than complain if anything more requires an ounce of work that might interfer with their online activities, gaming, watching sports, etc.
It’s definitely a possibility that can’t be discounted. The Civil Rights movement changed a lot of things and set the US on a path of cultural progress. A slow path, but it was going that way. Trump entered politics by saying by saying Obama wasn’t eligible to be President. There was some obvious bullshit about a birth certificate, but there’s the underlying meaning to it about a black man being ineligible to be President. A lot of people picked up on it and it’s like they became free to be themselves. Their racist hateful selves.
Trumpism is a rejection of all progress made in the Civil Rights movement and afterwards. So they’re going back to the way they were before.
To me, it’s the apathy towards this that’s most concerning. In every country there’s racist assholes, but in the US it seems they generally just accept that’s what their country is now, or believe that somehow the problem will just fix itself. They only seem to protest when social media tells them to protest, and social media is owned by Trump’s allies. The power these companies now know they have doesn’t bode well for this going away when Trump is gone. They’ll want to maintain their power by just bringing in some other racist asshole that appeals to the base instincts of Americans. Too many interests are lined up now for this to go away easily.
What electing Trump the second time exposed is that he is the real face of Americans, not some aberration. They care about ‘me, myself and I’ only. They only start to care about laws and policies if it negatively affects them personally. Even then, they will not do anything more than complain if anything more requires an ounce of work that might interfer with their online activities, gaming, watching sports, etc.
It’s definitely a possibility that can’t be discounted. The Civil Rights movement changed a lot of things and set the US on a path of cultural progress. A slow path, but it was going that way. Trump entered politics by saying by saying Obama wasn’t eligible to be President. There was some obvious bullshit about a birth certificate, but there’s the underlying meaning to it about a black man being ineligible to be President. A lot of people picked up on it and it’s like they became free to be themselves. Their racist hateful selves.
Trumpism is a rejection of all progress made in the Civil Rights movement and afterwards. So they’re going back to the way they were before.
To me, it’s the apathy towards this that’s most concerning. In every country there’s racist assholes, but in the US it seems they generally just accept that’s what their country is now, or believe that somehow the problem will just fix itself. They only seem to protest when social media tells them to protest, and social media is owned by Trump’s allies. The power these companies now know they have doesn’t bode well for this going away when Trump is gone. They’ll want to maintain their power by just bringing in some other racist asshole that appeals to the base instincts of Americans. Too many interests are lined up now for this to go away easily.