theel4life
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What does everyone plan on doing if god forbid Trump wins? Me personally plan on staying away from politics and the news for 4 years. Just ignoring it as much as possible.
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Agree with you. He ain't winning, and it ain't gonna be close.He ain't winning. Won't be close in the end. But if he did, nothing would change for me, keep on keeping on and minding my own business. Go to work, go home, do the things I have always done.
This is tempting and will likely be my immediate response. But we can't afford to do this. This sort of apathy among liberals is exactly what the modern conservative movement is designed to engender: flood the zone with disinformation, blur all sense of objective fact, and make "normal" people so exhausted/fed up with politics that there is little standing in the way of a reactionary swerve towards right-wing authoritarianism. And we can't simply stand by and let that happen. As demoralizing as the last decade of politics has been - the rise of Trump and MAGA, the increasing partisanship and ineffectiveness of Congress, the outright theft of a Supreme Court seat, the steady depletion of the public treasury for ill-advised Republican tax cuts, and the steady increase of executive power ripe for manipulation - nothing is ever "over" for good. There is always a way forward; or at least a way to make the way forward less painful than it might otherwise be. And we can't stop working towards that.What does everyone plan on doing if god forbid Trump wins? Me personally plan on staying away from politics and the news for 4 years. Just ignoring it as much as possible.
Same here. I may have an opportunity to move to London with my job in 2026/2027- which I would likely want to pursue regardless of whether Trump or Harris wins- but yeah, I think I'd have to just completely check out from the news and politics altogether.I’m moving overseas in 2 years regardless. I’ll just ignore the news/politics as much as possible for those 2 years.
It really won’t affect me that much other than crushing what little faith I have left in mankind.
Those are all great points, too. Hadn't considered it from that angle.This is tempting and will likely be my immediate response. But we can't afford to do this. This sort of apathy among liberals is exactly what the modern conservative movement is designed to engender: flood the zone with disinformation, blur all sense of objective fact, and make "normal" people so exhausted/fed up with politics that there is little standing in the way of a reactionary swerve towards right-wing authoritarianism. And we can't simply stand by and let that happen. As demoralizing as the last decade of politics has been - the rise of Trump and MAGA, the increasing partisanship and ineffectiveness of Congress, the outright theft of a Supreme Court seat, the steady depletion of the public treasury for ill-advised Republican tax cuts, and the steady increase of executive power ripe for manipulation - nothing is ever "over" for good. There is always a way forward; or at least a way to make the way forward less painful than it might otherwise be. And we can't stop working towards that.
Some people are in a position to fight back and some might have to just hunker down. Some vulnerable populations might just have to go into survival mode.This is tempting and will likely be my immediate response. But we can't afford to do this. This sort of apathy among liberals is exactly what the modern conservative movement is designed to engender: flood the zone with disinformation, blur all sense of objective fact, and make "normal" people so exhausted/fed up with politics that there is little standing in the way of a reactionary swerve towards right-wing authoritarianism. And we can't simply stand by and let that happen. As demoralizing as the last decade of politics has been - the rise of Trump and MAGA, the increasing partisanship and ineffectiveness of Congress, the outright theft of a Supreme Court seat, the steady depletion of the public treasury for ill-advised Republican tax cuts, and the steady increase of executive power ripe for manipulation - nothing is ever "over" for good. There is always a way forward; or at least a way to make the way forward less painful than it might otherwise be. And we can't stop working towards that.
Damn, I like your confidence. Wish you would bottle it and send me a gallon.He ain't winning. Won't be close in the end. But if he did, nothing would change for me, keep on keeping on and minding my own business. Go to work, go home, do the things I have always done.
Harsh but fair.I will write off Americans as simply too stupid to be a democracy and enjoy my upper income tax cuts and status as a white male. I will have given up worrying about the common man like I have Carolina football.