I used to think the percentage of people willing to vote for heinous leaders was about 35%. Thanks to the Orange Fraudster, I think we're closer to 50%. Here in Oklahoma, it's about 65%, which is why we can't have nice things. We had a great alternative to a MAGAT governor, but still Oklahomans chose bloody Red. The Jan. 6 Insurrection should have shocked many MAGATS Blue, but instead many dug in, refusing to believe "their" people could do what they did, or explaining it away as "not really that bad." The lack of consequences for the purveyors of Big Lie and the Jan. 6 Insurrection, notably DJT and the legislators still in office, is appalling. It's a direct assault on democracy, on human decency, and on truth. We've been on this slippery slope for a long while - Manifest Destiny genocides, McCarthyism, Reaganism, Vietnam War escalation, the Bush-era lies that got us into the Iraq War, and now Trumpism. Some even fear another Civil War, with the MAGATS stockpiling their AR-15s to force their vision of "Murika" on the "snowflake" liberals. In the name of Jesus, of course.
Over here, there was a sense of the heinous in the USA being a small minority. Now we've shown it isn't that way at all. It's an awful feeling, seeing this happen to my birth country while being outside it with limited ability to do much about it... I've heard some Americans say if the GOP takes it all, they'll leave. It isn't that simple. The country I'm in is following the same path. There's just still some veneer over it in the UK. Dark money reaches across any borders it wants to. But if the USA can save itself, its influence is still so powerful that it could hinder the slide in other countries too.
When the USA has elections, it's all over the news here. Everybody knows whatever happens there is going to affect the rest of the world.
I used to think the percentage of people willing to vote for heinous leaders was about 35%. Thanks to the Orange Fraudster, I think we're closer to 50%. Here in Oklahoma, it's about 65%, which is why we can't have nice things. We had a great alternative to a MAGAT governor, but still Oklahomans chose bloody Red. The Jan. 6 Insurrection should have shocked many MAGATS Blue, but instead many dug in, refusing to believe "their" people could do what they did, or explaining it away as "not really that bad." The lack of consequences for the purveyors of Big Lie and the Jan. 6 Insurrection, notably DJT and the legislators still in office, is appalling. It's a direct assault on democracy, on human decency, and on truth. We've been on this slippery slope for a long while - Manifest Destiny genocides, McCarthyism, Reaganism, Vietnam War escalation, the Bush-era lies that got us into the Iraq War, and now Trumpism. Some even fear another Civil War, with the MAGATS stockpiling their AR-15s to force their vision of "Murika" on the "snowflake" liberals. In the name of Jesus, of course.
Over here, there was a sense of the heinous in the USA being a small minority. Now we've shown it isn't that way at all. It's an awful feeling, seeing this happen to my birth country while being outside it with limited ability to do much about it... I've heard some Americans say if the GOP takes it all, they'll leave. It isn't that simple. The country I'm in is following the same path. There's just still some veneer over it in the UK. Dark money reaches across any borders it wants to. But if the USA can save itself, its influence is still so powerful that it could hinder the slide in other countries too.
When the USA has elections, it's all over the news here. Everybody knows whatever happens there is going to affect the rest of the world.
For better or for worse.