uspol thoughts
* I'm worried that this will be just like AIDS/Katrina hitting NOLA/Maria hitting PR in that it'll get whitewashed all to fuck, and that 20 years down the line, if I'm still alive by then, I'll have to put up with Trump being idealized by our society and all of this being conveniently swept under the rug.
* I feel like not having widely circulated photographs of corpses/coffins/funerals/intubated patients/etc keeps this whole thing remote for most Americans, myself included, and it's hard *not* to feel like that's an intentional omission to keep us in line. If there were a chance we could be invading or bombing some Moslem third world country there'd be photos of bodies and devastation all over but not this, not something you can blame on nice Republicans at home.
* I feel like having Kushner around means that when all this is done, the fucking Nazis will point at him and scream JEW rather than at the much greater preponderance of white politicians who made this situation what it is.
re: uspol thoughts
@Leucrotta One possibly reassuring counterpoint: Trump's crisis bump was all of 5 percentage points and lasted for, what, a week?
It's terrifying to contemplate that even if "we" win, we'll still have a shitty, sketchy neoliberal in office and a nation full of rabid, radicalized conspiracy kooks.
But we've already passed the first hurdle of preserving a democracy in the face of a proto-fascist: the majority of us, however scant, just plain haven't bought into it. Whatever happens with Trump, there's going to be a pretty loud chorus of "What? No. Fuck you."
I was also fascinated to read today that roughly 30% of Republicans either want someone other than Trump as their candidate or are indifferent.
I am DEFINITELY not trying to be dismissive of your fears, I too am shit scared of what could happen in the next six months alone. It's horrifying that the following of such an amoral fuckbeast like Trump could even be TEN percent of America, let alone forty-five. But with COVID-19 about to hit the heartland (and me really torn on whether to cheer, smirk, or weep over it), I think the odds are at least good that it could get worse for him.
But then, how many times have we said that. Nobody knows how thick that bastard's teflon coating is. *sigh*
re: uspol thoughts
@zebratron2084 A Biden victory is going to be equivalent to telling British people in 1940 that Dunkirk was an unexpected, spectacular success. There's only the tiniest spark of joy or relief to be had.
There's this connection of past to present to future through whitewashing. I'm so tired of how Republicans always basically get people killed and it gets whitewashed. There's the much wider context of worrying that while there might be enough outrage to get rid of 45, after a mere 2-8 years of sweet freedom from these assclowns, we'll be right back here (partly because the Dems are fundamentally unwilling to actually do shit that would keep them a majority).
But my concern here is also deeply personal. It's going to directly suck 2-8 years down the line when there's another crisis which a Republican administration handles in its usual caring manner! But it's going to *seriously* feel shitty to be a senior citizen who remembers how AIDS/Gulf War 2/Katrina/Maria/Covid were intentionally mishandled, and yet people are going to be holding up all of it as just great.
re: uspol thoughts
@Leucrotta I mean, I still want a fucking apology for those Iraqi WMDs never showing up. And for claiming cannabis legalization and gay marriage would make society collapse. >___<
