What is the point of this post? There are a lot of people to be angry at here. Demonstrating displeasure to elected officials is our first amendment right.
What is the point of this post? There are a lot of people to be angry at here. Demonstrating displeasure to elected officials is our first amendment right.
I see many of these kinds of posts these days, and I honestly suspect they are bots seeking to demoralize the opposition into inaction.
1.I'm not a bot
2. How am I demoralizing the opposition? I'm directing them to a more ideal target.
>Demonstrating displeasure to elected officials is our first amendment right
It has no purpose and you're not going after the source
I think the point was: Trump is just a symptom, not the disease...
For all of us who have "lost" family members to propaganda, I worry that Fox "News" is the disease.
Let's be real "Fox News" isn't a spinning black and white wheel that hypnotizes you or has some other movie like power.
People are responsible for their views. Especially if they don't look into other viewpoints, consider it they are being lied to, etc.
I think that was possibly the case in the days of print newspapers. But I'm not sure I can blame individuals that are targeted all day every day by global corporations messaging them.
They are getting brainwashed by Twitter, Facebook, "News" websites, Televisions.
Billions are being spent every day to mould your thoughts to their desires.
How does a single individual fight that?
It's like saying "Jesus and personal responsibility" will save you from your heroin addiction.
>It's like saying "Jesus and personal responsibility" will save you from your heroin addiction.
Is the heroin addict seeking help?
I should have been clearer than I was, you're not wrong, I just find nearly everything is more nuanced than we allow for in discourse these days, and I have sympathy for people because I, too, found it hard to eat healthy and exercise enough when I was an executive with an 11 hour work day due to a 2:45 hour combined daily commute.
And I was a distance runner for 20 years.
>I have sympathy for people because I, too, found it hard to eat healthy and exercise enough when I was an executive with an 11 hour work day
So you were overweight and/or ate poorly..But you wanted to be healthy?
This analogy, along with the drug addict one, doesn't work because 1. They don't believe they are doing something wrong 2. Aren't trying to fix the issue.
>nuanced
Then let's get deeper here. Offer up an argument with some nuance. My viewpoint isn't (I hope) contingent on ignoring the complexities of the situation
Trump is a disease, the tools he uses are the opportunities given to adapt Putin's template for the American Empire.
Trump is the one in power and he's following an autocratic takeover playbook. So by all means push back.
It absolutely is, but don't expect it to actually change anything.
The usual avenues to air grievances that modern Americans are used to, like writing your representative or even peaceful mass protests, only work in a political culture where they are universally perceived as detrimental to government's legitimacy and that matters. We are past this point now, and, arguably, have been for a while.
For an example of how well such tactics work in a different culture, look at e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932013_Russian_prot...
To put it bluntly, Trump and people who elected him don't give a fuck about "whiny libs". If you want to convince them to change course, you need to cause them actual measurable harm. Starting with economic - mass strikes etc - but be prepared that government would escalate to physical and match in kind.