Whatever man. You can’t just apply such a general theory that easily.
- Think turning on the lights in your home is safe? Aw, that’s just survivor bias.
Other than that, I feel like the events of the last few days have proofed my point. While I have never argued that we should not all stand together agains racism, I said that the direction this protest is going is wrong.
You can see it in NYC. Since the liberal police reform there, shootings and crime has been way up.
the Seattle autonomous zone - I don’t even know what to say. I am watching this unfold from my house in Europe and literally cannot believe what has happened to the United States. It used to be such a great country. Absolute crazyness, trash everywhere, shootings, one fatality, police not allowed to investigate.
This is what happens when you let loony bin socialists do what they please.
How can this be allowed to happen?
Then the destruction of the statues.
I have always had some sympathy for the liberal idea and always rooted more for the American Democrats than for the republicans.
And while the Republicans and especially Trump make me feel very uneasy, it’s the Democrats that have completely lost the plot. Nothing but crazy ideologues running the party.
They seem to be doing everything they can to give trump the next election as well. Defunding the police? People like AOC? The democrats weren’t nearly this crazy when Obama was in office. What has gone wrong since then?
The only reason democrats are not at 20% is trump and his own crazynes.
I always thought we Europeans had bad politicians but the US is absolutely next level.
From someone inside the country, the central problem seems to be our media. Yes, our politicians aren’t running the country. But when that happens, you’d think the media would start explaining it to the people. But they’re not. They’re basically on the same payrolls that the political parties are on. The same companies buying advertising on the media networks are the same ones funding the political campaigns. And only reporting stories that fit narratives that one political party or the other is running on.
I’m sure that’s true in many countries. But it’s really gotten painfully obvious in this country. To the point where the last time I checked, polling shows Just over 70% of Americans don’t trust the media.
In ‘16, part of how Trump got elected was running against the media, talking about how dishonest they were. It’s just that apparently It takes someone with as big a mouth as Trump has to actually do something like that. Because Trump is the only politicians willing to do it. You’ve probably heard some variant of the old saying, “don’t pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel”.
But Trump has been pretty much stymied from any major accomplishments because there was this ridiculous Russiagate controversy where the left flooded the airwaves claiming Trump was some kind of Russian agent. I’m not making that up. The leftist media in America spent over two years where the major story was how supposedly the Russians manipulated our last election to get Trump elected. Then when that finally sputtered and no charges were brought, they impeached Trump based on the idea that was blackmailing Ukraine, so that they would have to investigate Biden. Long story short, Biden’s son was making all kinds of money on some Ukrainian board. And he also received ridiculous sums of money from China. And the Democrats didn’t want Trump investigating it, so they Impeached Trump for trying to get information on it...
Anyway, the reason this is a problem is the way it works in America is nothing major gets done unless there’s a ground swelling of support from the American people themselves. Several presidents have explained this to us. I can hear in my head both Obama and Clinton saying it after they got out of office. And with the institution, the media, which is responsible for informing the American people so that maybe a ground swelling could occur, obsessing over nonsense stories, the American people just haven’t ground swelled over anything,
For the last twenty years, there haven’t been any major accomplishments from the American government except writing bigger checks and starting more wars. And I blame a lot of it on the hyper-politicization of our media, especially during the Trump era. At least Trump hasn’t started any new wars. So maybe he’s doing better than average for presidents as of late.
That’s the most sense I can make out of it. I‘m not a historian though. So I don’t have a high level of confidence that that’s what sets America apart over the last twenty years. But from living here, it sure seems like it.
