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You know how in beheading say, a chicken. the chicken can survive for a long time without a head? Even though it clearly has no head, no future and is the walking dead? This is The United States of America. The walking dead. We are only going through the motions. What was, is dead. We now have a king and for all intents and purposes, a completely pacified population. Greatest coup in history masterminded brilliantly by Putin. I mean, it wasn't really brilliant though, was it? It was telegraphed and painfully obvious to anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size. Still though, here we all are. Fucked.
Unfortunately, that only accounts for maybe a quarter of the total population of the US.
https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BBFoundation_GainsFromEradicatingIlliteracy_9_8.pdf
This means they effectively read below a sixth grade reading level. They literally cannot string complex ideas together and understand how those ideas interact.
Which is why the simple messages used by the nazis sticks. They use emotion and that resonates with our monumental pile of dumbasses.
Unfortunately, it's what's going on with a good many of "the left" too. Zero mastery of passions, zero ability to slow* down, think through impotent rage enough to temper emotion and harness what's left for any action, other than hurling Internet insults, worrying about temporary loss aversion now, rather than permanent, more severe loss, for inability to harness well-thought, effectual action.
What's crazy to me is that everyone in the US knows, KNOWS that the rich-elite pay less taxes. No one hides it.... It's just accepted with no penalty.
Thats so fucked up.
It's not just because those people are dumb, it's because they've been weaponised and brainwashed by Fox News. America will not be able to heal until Fox News and the other right wing channels that are permitted to broadcast their outright lies are shut down.
It will be difficult, but not impossible. Just like there was a tipping point into the madness, there can be a tipping point out of the madness. The more pressing issue is time.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine.
To be clear, a headless chicken doesn't shamble around slowly...
It runs around as fast as possible, it's heart beating as fast as it can, shooting blood 2-3 feet into the air while viciously attacking anything it bumps into.
And since we're going back to the "good ole days" /s
The way to slaughter a chicken is hold it by the neck and press it's head to the ground. Using a stick (to save your hand) draw a line straight in front of the chicken, over and over.
The chicken will quickly freeze, for whatever reason it breaks it's brain for a couple minutes.
One person then cuts the head off with a hatchet, and another person quickly throws a tub over the corpse to avoid all the shit I said at first. When the tub stomps thumping, you can retrieve the chicken.
But my point is; the masses won't just shamble along, shits either gonna get crazy or the government is gonna have to throw a tub over us and sit on it.
The masses aren't going to do shit, quit kidding yourself.
If someone genuinely thinks it's pointless and nothing will be fixed no matter what...
Why choose to spend your time telling people hope is useless?
Why don't you check out of politics for a while, if you truly believe we're fucked, go enjoy what time we have left. Either you're right and the same result, but you got to enjoy societies dying gasp, or you're wrong and everyone that doesn't give up fixing shit for you.
I'm not trying to be a dick, it's a legitimate question that I desperately want answered but no one ever does.
How DARE you have hope for the future? Disgusting.
Fixing shit for me ? You aren't fixing shit for yourselves. We are now waiting for your useless fucking "country" to try to annex us, because none of you had the balls to stop an orange clown in diapers and a ketamine soaked tard. Fixing shit for us lmfao.
Hey, if you think it's that easy, just stop them yourself. You sound like you're full of balls, so just do it.
So your doing EXACTLY what you're blaming US citizens if doing, which is doing nothing and wait until the bad thing happens.
You can piss and moan that someone should have stood up and stopped all of this from happening, but assassinating the richest man in the World and the (leading up to the election) former POTUS and leading candidate for the Republican party that had secret service security, isn't just something that anyone can pull off. You could be the champion of the the world if you yourself make the sacrifice you think someone else should have made, so buck up chief, let's see what you got.
No problem, I didn't expect this to be the time someone finally answers the question.
Feel free to keep replying telling people to give up, I'll never see another comment you make. There's much better uses of my time.