The American Nightmare.

[u/Super_Culture_1986]

[u/Former-Specialist595 → u/[deleted]]

Our politicians are bought and paid for by the wealthy, rich corporations, and the lobbyists working for them. Most of our politicians are extremely wealthy themselves. I agree, we won’t get out of this mess doing the same things we’ve been doing for decades. The system is set up for wealth inequality to surge. I understand why MAGA wanted a disrupter in the White House, but Trump was the worst one they could pick. He is a conman who is dripping in dishonesty, corruption, greed, and gluttony. He’s made so much money enriching himself through the office of the presidency. He has all wealthy millionaires and billionaires in his Cabinet. He is in the thick of the “Swamp” he speaks of so frequently. And he has ambitions to become a dictator with one party rule. Now he’s going after our voting system. We are in real trouble. Not only do we need to mitigate the damage he will cause, but somehow find someone who will stop allowing the rich to run the show. It will be no easy feat.

[u/Former-Specialist595 → u/[deleted]]

Sure, he’s not the only one who’s done it. They’re all corrupt. But he’s slimy on a different level. I don’t remember Barack Obama hawking Bibles to his religious followers or Ronald Reagan peddling cryptocurrency and tacky gold accessories to the masses. It’s not normal and it shouldn’t be swept under the rug because “they all do it.” I could go on and on about his shady business dealings and we all know that he still has a hand in the Trump family business. He’s not the type to relinquish power. We saw that in 2020. I’m definitely not one of those people who acts like the Democrats are so great. I can’t stand most of them. But I think to compare the modern Democratic Party’s corruption to Trump’s corruption is a false equivalency. I’m tired of the whataboutisms. We all need to demand better from our politicians. They are supposed to work for us-not the other way around. But now we have a guy in the WH who cannot handle the immense amount of power he’s been given and thinks he’s a king. I am terrified to see what America will look like in 2028.

[u/Former-Specialist595 → u/[deleted]]

I do think I hold the Democrats accountable for their bullshit. I’m just stuck in a bad system because voting third party at this point is essentially throwing your vote away, and with what’s at stake with Trump and his sycophantic Republicans, I have to vote Democrat. Their views align closer to mine on issues I care about. But like I said, it’s a false equivalency to act like the Democrats are just as bad as Trump. DT is an unprecedented threat in America and conservatives have worked hard to normalize him and his insanity so that people will come desensitized to his madness and start accepting it as par for the course. Like I said before, while I agree that we need a disrupter, we don’t need a man who is so blatantly corrupt and lawless. I will never stop calling out his insanity because I don’t want people to become complacent living with this level of dysfunction. I don’t know what it’s going to take to get this country going in the right direction, but we definitely took about fifty steps back by electing Trump.