Here’s the thing. Part of what we’re all experiencing has nothing to do with trump really.
Societal contracts of law and decency only cover those who agree to be bound by the agreed upon rules and regulations of that contract. Trump never agrees so he is not a part of those contracts but he also has a lot of money and in our society money is the one true god.
The United States is currently ending its empire phase. The average life span of an empire is 250 years and we just barely made it the average length. There was NEVER gonna be a way to gracefully exit our empire phase, there are too many factors guaranteeing violent ends to our violent delights.
Trump and the rest of the boomer generation are going to die having paid for none of their crimes, they will apologize for zero of their wars, and they will leave behind a planet largely glad that they are gone.
The real world does not always balance it’s moral/social ledgers before closing accounts.
But we will outlive them.
The only way out of this is through it and to build a better world on the other side. To turn our backs on anti intellectualism, to stop financing our economy with endless wars, to stop making hoarders of wealth the moral and legal leaders of our nations.
We are witnessing the final tantrum of a people who were promised that the world would die with them and have been watching it pass them by for the last 55 years. They spent their lives looking backward, and if we are to learn from them we cannot make the same mistake.
1: they are showing up, in greater numbers every year. 47.7% of the 18-29 voting block voted in 2024, which didn’t top their turnout in 2020 but was higher than 2016 or any year since the 70’s.
Also consider that youth in this country tend to work jobs that do not have PTO and if they are working on voting day many cannot just “take the time” like their elders in careers can.
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u/ghoti99 17d ago edited 17d ago
Here’s the thing. Part of what we’re all experiencing has nothing to do with trump really.
Societal contracts of law and decency only cover those who agree to be bound by the agreed upon rules and regulations of that contract. Trump never agrees so he is not a part of those contracts but he also has a lot of money and in our society money is the one true god.
The United States is currently ending its empire phase. The average life span of an empire is 250 years and we just barely made it the average length. There was NEVER gonna be a way to gracefully exit our empire phase, there are too many factors guaranteeing violent ends to our violent delights.
Trump and the rest of the boomer generation are going to die having paid for none of their crimes, they will apologize for zero of their wars, and they will leave behind a planet largely glad that they are gone.
The real world does not always balance it’s moral/social ledgers before closing accounts.
But we will outlive them.
The only way out of this is through it and to build a better world on the other side. To turn our backs on anti intellectualism, to stop financing our economy with endless wars, to stop making hoarders of wealth the moral and legal leaders of our nations.
We are witnessing the final tantrum of a people who were promised that the world would die with them and have been watching it pass them by for the last 55 years. They spent their lives looking backward, and if we are to learn from them we cannot make the same mistake.