So, Trump has finally told us what era of America he's thinking of when he talks about "making America great again." And boy, this is a doozy.
You know, I can sympathize somewhat with a MAGA voter who longs for the new deal era, without realizing it's left wing policies that made it great. I mean, get a job out of high school, feed an entire family on it, life is easy, life is simple, no having to worry about unemployment or where your next paycheck is coming from, just economic security. I know that's idealized, but that's what I think a lot of people miss about American society. Life is more complicated now, it's hard. We're always at risk of losing our jobs, half of us live paycheck to paycheck and can't even afford a $500 emergency, people dont feel confident in their finances. They're stressed, they're unhappy, they're overworked and underpaid. And they long to return to simplicity.
If that's you, become a leftie. We want life to be like that. I want life to be like that. I have policies to make America like that. So do other progressives. We dont always agree, but generally speaking we understand that the laissez faire economic system is causing all of these problems and want to fix it.
But Trump...does not. For you see, his ideal era of American history was....*drumroll*.....1870-1913. You heard it right, the GILDED AGE. The age where all of the problems with modern American capitalism were amplified many times over because there were no regulations. Workplaces were unsafe. People worked long hours for wages they couldn't live on, and then paid what little they had to landlords who ate it all up, and the working class were slaves. We had kids losing fingers and arms to machines. We had them going down into the mines. But because we didn't have income taxes, we had tariffs, and became we had this weird lebenstraum style imperialism thing going on, Trump thinks that was "great." And of course, the lack of regulations and taxes helped his rich buddies.
Trumpers, regret your vote yet? I ain't saying the other lady was great, but she would've been way better than this.
Either way, I struggle to at least have sympathy for remaining trump voters. If you STILL like trump despite the sheer incompetence, Christian nationalism, and literal longing for the LITERAL FRICKING GILDED AGE, you are lost. Your moral compass is fundamentally broken. You are at best ignorant, and at worst evil. That's how I see it.
This second term of trump is turning into the epitome of evil for me. Fascist anti democratic tendencies, christian nationalism, gilded age economics, raw imperialism, a descent into a possible illiberal techno feudalism. It's insane. It's truly fricking insane.
This administration is evil. I will just say it. They are EVIL! EVIL!!!!!!! If you like this stuff, you are lost. You are at best stupid, and at worst, your moral compass is fundamentally broken. That's all I'm gonna say.
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