ZeroEm
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What about he THC ban in Texas. Oh that right it has always been against the law.
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Sounds like you didn't really think it was fair but trying to accept the result? Telling big lies to win an election is not fair. Too bad politicians can lie without impunity.
Honesty is heavily penalized in presidential races, and taking large corporate bucks is required to even be seen by voters.
That makes each election a contest of which corrupt liar you like best.
Adding insult to injury - your vote could be overridden by an elector, because they make the vote for you. There is no punishment for them not following the public vote.
It's slightly more legitimate than North Korea's election system, so i wouldn't take it too serious.
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ZeroEm
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I blame our parents, they lied to us. Remember cheaters never win, honesty is the best policy. Will need to think of the others. It's more the true nature of the USA. The civil war, we did not want to get involved in World war 2. It's like the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" the quote "We have two sides". or in Texas "if you don't like the Weather wait a bit".
scianiac
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Honestly I think I mostly wealth inequality, the internet, modern media and modern culture. And I don't think those are necessarily down to things like division, people have been strongly divided since we were apes but I think there are some particular wedges that politicians have figured out work better in this current climate. One of the most obvious ones seems to be populism fueled weirdly by the exact thing it's against.
We're all mad at these billionaires who are after power, these politicians who are trying to become billionaires though power and that is one thing is seems everyone can get behind but somehow those very people are the ones we elect because they claim to be for the people and want to stop those abuses. They figured out they can use media fuel this type of fire really well. It just so happens that all sides and I don't mean just in the US have figured this out and are good enough at lying (or honestly the populations is bad enough at detecting lies, perhaps due to the short attention span of modern culture idk).
The complexity of wealth inequality is not something I think we can really get into but it would be nice if we as a population could get a little better and not buying the obvious lies that they are somehow actually for the people and against elites with zero evidice to support that.
To get maybe more granular is seems much of the modern US democratic party's identity is built on being anti-eltie and for the people and then orange man came along and also went for that play except people were fed up with the dems promising that and never delivering and so here we are with another old man with a red hat instead of a blue hat that is also not delivering but he's not delivering with about 200% more chaos.
Also populism is obviously not new but extreme versions of it come in waves throughout history it seems when conditions are right and I think the internet among other factors has created those conditions in various ways.
We're all mad at these billionaires who are after power, these politicians who are trying to become billionaires though power and that is one thing is seems everyone can get behind but somehow those very people are the ones we elect because they claim to be for the people and want to stop those abuses. They figured out they can use media fuel this type of fire really well. It just so happens that all sides and I don't mean just in the US have figured this out and are good enough at lying (or honestly the populations is bad enough at detecting lies, perhaps due to the short attention span of modern culture idk).
The complexity of wealth inequality is not something I think we can really get into but it would be nice if we as a population could get a little better and not buying the obvious lies that they are somehow actually for the people and against elites with zero evidice to support that.
To get maybe more granular is seems much of the modern US democratic party's identity is built on being anti-eltie and for the people and then orange man came along and also went for that play except people were fed up with the dems promising that and never delivering and so here we are with another old man with a red hat instead of a blue hat that is also not delivering but he's not delivering with about 200% more chaos.
Also populism is obviously not new but extreme versions of it come in waves throughout history it seems when conditions are right and I think the internet among other factors has created those conditions in various ways.
I think economic trouble or resource stress makes strong leader populist types more appealing, and that's how they get elected - because the weak leadership isn't working and we must have something different.
I'm looking back to the early-mid 1900's where we have a viral panic, then depression, then every country was starting wars all over the place. I think violence is how government ( and people ) responds to stress of the economic or resource availability sort.
Lotta dictatorships sprung up around the world back then.
Fingers crossed that at some point the world realizes it's repeating the same pattern.
I'm looking back to the early-mid 1900's where we have a viral panic, then depression, then every country was starting wars all over the place. I think violence is how government ( and people ) responds to stress of the economic or resource availability sort.
Lotta dictatorships sprung up around the world back then.
Fingers crossed that at some point the world realizes it's repeating the same pattern.
ZeroEm
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When my mother was young they would take people in and interview them. They were looking to root out communist. The USA has seen bad times. We seem to pull thru. I get frustrated that we just don't move forward always need to take a step or two backward.
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