I always enjoy his Saturday Coffee Klatches.
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Also lmao it's Robert Reich again with another hit
You know that the Trump regime is brutally attacking US democracy. Most of us did not vote for Donald Trump (half of us didn’t even vote in the 2024 election).
I mean, we sort of fucked around and found out...
You can't expect voter participation to be high when they believe their vote doesn't matter, nor if the candidate you want them to vote for is decidedly uncompelling. Democrats made the latter true and Republicans have worked hard to try and make the former true. What do we expect, in that scenario?
Voting more could have avoided this, yes. But the lion's share of the blame does not lie with voters.
There is an old agave. The voters always get the candidate they deserve. There is plenty of blame to go around. Voters deserve some of it. Non voters deserve some of it.
whether you believe the us fucked around or not, genocide is not schaudenfreude.
Wonder if there is a meaningful way for average people to destroy USD value / market values beyond "boycotts." USD trade is pretty much always evil, how does one burn it?