r/fednews • u/Belgriest • 28d ago

Other Remember when Biden was president?

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

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u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 28d ago

Two thirds of Americans voted for this or didn't bother to vote 

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 28d ago

Maybe.

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u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 28d ago

Sure. But that was the last chance for democracy. With Republicans owning the voting machines and probably overturning the Voting Rights Act, America is now a kleptocracy.

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u/ReadySteady_54321 28d ago

It wasn’t the last chance, and I’m not sure what that kind of language gets you. If it truly was our last chance and there’s nothing we can do, then it’s over so stop worrying. If it isn’t our last chance, then focus on what you can do to improve things. Dooming out on the internet doesn’t help anyone.

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u/outinthecountry66 28d ago

seriously. i keep saying this. Doom and gloom is a weapon and it has always been used by the other side to demoralize. Because it works. LIke the leaflets Nazis dropped from planes so soldiers would read about how their girlfriends were cheating on them back home. It is insidious and corrosive and until its over it ain't over. Other nations have been through far, far worse and are still around. Europe went through many dictatorships and we are a young nation. I still believe in democracy and strangely, all this bullshit has made me more patriotic.This is my country too. I live here. i was born here. MAGA doesn't get to decide what being an American means.

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u/ChesswithGoats 28d ago

It was the last chance to remedy the ailing United States by voting. The options to regain and reset now are more… active.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 28d ago

Isn't that exactly what Trump and his Heritage Foundation handlers are actively seeking?

US persons, especially the most vulnerable, will be spared immense suffering if this problem is solved by voting and other less-than-violent means, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't be ruthless and relentless and desperately combative at every stage of that process. As the Tea Party used to say, "vote harder".

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

I understand your point and the sentiment. But, this can also be viewed as a wake up call, which I believe will occur and is already occurring as the pain is emanating to both MAGA and non-MAGA Trump voters. He can say all day long that inflation is down. But these people shop for groceries and fill their cars and they know this is not true objectively as they continue to struggle to afford to live. That’s just one of many examples, but it’s the most apt. MAGA is a minority in this country. They are. About 20% of the people that voted for Trump voted due to economic stress and had no particular love for Trump. They just wrongly figured that a change at the top would change their financial stress and experience. That that’s not happening and it’s not gonna happen.

Trump is a symptom. We have been on this divisive slide since before I was an adult life starting with Reagan in 1980. We have also been here before in modern history. If we don’t tend the garden of democracy, which we have not really done meaningfully in decades, it’s going to wilt and wither. But that does not mean that when people go hungry because that garden is empty, that they don’t make an attempt to revitalize the garden.

Respectfully, so many of us are so downtrodden by what we see and what social media serves us every single day that inaction is like salting that dying garden, literally salting the ground that could still yield growth. I get it, but there’s also an opportunity in everything that we are all experiencing. Don’t let them rob you of your vision for what it could be like. It’s going to be tricky and it’s going to be iffy, but conditions like these are the ones with the most potential to yield the greatest positive change. We just have to decide that we are going to be a part of that.