Yeah, there is a lot of hope that the US rejection of Trump may lead other countries to ditch their strongman leaders as well. Can only hope.
Idk I still find the notion hilarious considering the rest of the world is basically just following in whatever the US is doing. I’m honestly more convinced the situation here wouldn’t be as extreme had it not been for Trump’s presidency
More like our cautionary tale of what we'll end up like if we don't stop our partisan bulltrout and making each side the mortal enemy of everything the other side holds dear. Though hilariously, the examples used by your leader are the exact same ones used by our dumbass in chief, your leader just sounds more competent in executing it, whereas ours needed his media goons to try to spin all his failures into successes.
Are we gonna be your next bogeyman now
loooool Amazing
Ha, there is an article in Bloomberg that discusses how U.S. partisan politics will make us more like Poland.
We live in strange times.
Tough times ahead either way, huh
Yeah, I've been wracking my brain over how to resolve this issue and the only thing I can think of would be to re-enact the FCC Fairness Doctrine, which itself would be hugely controversial in this partisan time frame and likely die in the courts. Sadly, I feel it's too late to save Trump's cult. Between them and the QAanon crazies it's hard to imagine a way to get them to look at reason. I feel it's sad to remember fondly back on when the Republican party was just manipulative and war mongering. To watch them get so radicalized in the last decade has been scary. I thought it was simply a backlash against Obama, but under Trump, I see there really are just a large swaths of people who are convinced the country has to go back to some ultra religious conservative fairy tale version of America. It's disappointing talking to my dad reminisce about how he wished America was more like he remembered it in the 50s as a child or from shows like Leave it to Beaver or Father Knows Best. I grew up in the 80s, but at least I hold no delusions it was a politically fraught time frame I hope we never go back to. I know it's been growing across the world. I have a friend from the Philippines and we discuss how her country has been doing under their own nationalist asshole. Of anything, it just shows that o all the possible future scenarios in media, Front Mission might have been the closest to reality since it's whole story framework is about the rise of nationalism in an increasingly globalist world. Not helped that the American right is terrified of globalism thanks to the radical interpretations of Revelations in the Bible. They see any form of globalism as a sign of the anti-christ and the end times, so it's amazing to watch them swing so hard towards nationalism and fascism to counter it.
