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The disconnect between what American's thought Trump would do and what he and his team repeatedly and unambiguously said he was going to do is genuinely dismaying.
I'm not sure this is quite at a face-eating leopard level of denial of the obvious, but its approaching it.
he just says so much bullshit it's hard for people to register all of it as relevant at all. it's part of his trick.
here's a quick way to differentiate between his lies and true statements: if it's something that benefits you it's a lie. if it's something that's gonna hurt you it's a promise. easy.
Part of the problem is most of these people have the memory of a goldfish. They don’t recollect his first term. If they did, then they would know everything he says is bullshit. If they remembered his first term then his agenda should be obvious.
Stupid people doing stupid things. We live in a world full of dummies and they are ruining the world for everyone else that has a functioning brain.
100%
there are people still arguing that trump will be stopped by the courts
For me it was more a belief of what they'd be able to do, not try to do. I had faith in the system to stop certain things but the lack of pushback from anyone else in power despite everything going on right now is proving that believe to be very misguided and naive
The people are in power. The elected officials are there at your will. They only have power because you give it to them to work on your behalf. Now the time has come that they're not doing that. At all. The people need to reclaim that power and use it themselves. It's time for mass protests and marches and strikes.
The longer you wait the more rights you'll lose and the more difficult it will be.
Totally. People are in power.
The problem is that people are DUMB. Their stupidity is continuously used against them. So even though they are in power, they have no idea how to wield that power and instead their weak minds are manipulated by smart people.
Which ultimately means it’s the smart people who are in power because they are the ones that know how to make moves and change the world. The people are their tool to do so.
It’s like saying a chisel is in power. It’s really the guy using the chisel that’s in power. The chisel is just a tool.
The people are just too dumb to ever be more than a tool.