The few lawmakers who held town halls this summer faced voters furious with Republicans about Trump’s agenda and with Democrats for not doing enough to fight back.
With political tensions running high, the vast majority of congressional lawmakers steered clear of town halls this summer. The handful who entered the lion’s den were met with boos, jeers and tense confrontations.
President Donald Trump and the Republicans may have full control of Washington, but protesters spared neither political party. At 25 town halls across the country that were viewed or attended by NBC News this summer, voters pressured Democrats to deploy more aggressive tactics as they battle Trump and took them to task over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Republicans faced hostile crowds over their support for Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” his nationwide immigration crackdown and Trump’s deployment of federal forces to Washington, D.C., in what he has called an effort to crack down on crime.
the elected GOP are laughing in the voters faces, because they know you voted for this and will vote for them in the future, no use getting mad now, you brought this upon yourselves. Also the non-voters(those who sat at home out of protest or dint bother voting, or dint even know there was eleciton going on)
Why is the american electorate too dumb to understand both democrats and republicans are financed by the same oligarchs? What’s so complicated about it?
Yes they are funded by the same billionaires and will never go against that class. But they are not the same. The latest Republican Party is now so corrupt, anti constitutionalist and working against the people. They are not the same.
Corruption light and Corruption heavy. I have clear preferences if given the choice.
Uniparty, basically, outside of Maga, THE OLD Guard of both parties work together making backdoor deals.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
Here’s your answer. Ask yourself why the admins on lemmy world act like dumbocrat groupies
No you see when the dems bombs civilians it’s a bipartisan issue, it doesn’t matter. Nobody’s fault, really
culture wars my friend, the right has the propaganda apparatus set up to say our way is better, there is no other way, oh and “we also want you to LOOK over here and hate these xyz people, instead of looking at what rich people are doing behind the scenes”
As an American, I can attest that Americans as a whole are pretty stupid when it comes to politics. In our defense, we’re fed a steady diet of misinformation and propaganda from shortly after birth, and we don’t have the benefit of often encountering different cultural and political perspectives like Europeans do. We do have ready access to information, but being educated is actively frowned upon in many circles. It’s a solid swath of homogenous stupid here, coast to coast.
Because political ttibalsim is marketed to keep us from ganging up on the rich. And because the " just following orders" crowd doesn’t realize they’re the ones thtabget left holding bag and their bosses get away.
sports team, celebrity worship was created to achieve the same thing, political tribalism in the early days, those were the foundation.
Yep. Bread and circuses.
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He’s doing largely what Project 2025 outlined. I’m not sure why anyone is surprised
It’s because they’re stupid
Legit, something I heard from a trump voter after the election: yeah, I heard about Project 2025 and I hate it. But this election was to get trump into office, I’ll vote against Project 2025 in 2025.
headdesk
and he said he was campaigning on it, why are is his constituents surprised.
Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do when American voters gave him all the power and took it away from the democrats.
You do realize that there are people who did not vote for him?
Which is the majority, if you count those that voted for Kamala = ~75 million, and those that did not vote = ~90 million.
That always gets me with these kinds of comments too. It’s like they are telling us we deserve this because we voted for it but almost half of the people that voted wanted something else. That’s a whole lot of people who didn’t want it.
I guess when you are talking to the void on the Internet you can aim your anger at whoever you want. We are just caught in the cross hairs
If the dems didn’t bomb civilians they might had won. Their opposition was a rapist
And it’s not like it’s going to be much better depending where you live in a lot of countries that are democracies(itself not so great under capitalism). Like what happened in the USA can happen and did happen in other countries to especially where fascist and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise.
This Perspektive also ignores bigger causes like media companies, systems of opression, political campaigns, lobbying groups and we’ll people in power protecting their interests as well as the state, that can form and influence what becomes public opinion. And we’ll far right fascist groups and their billionaires building this up for quite a while now.
Point being these developments are complicated and blaming the average American for trump’s victory ignores the larger picture especially when you see people from Europe calling Americans stupid and thinking that an authoritarian takeover could never happen here in western eurooe. To that where just a few years behind but it is a very real possibility.
The people that sat out the process canceled out the people who didn’t want it and you can be mad at my comment or mad at the system for letting this happen.
I’m not mad at anyone. It is what it is.
Things could be different, but they’re not.
Yes but more people voted for him so he won.
But that doesn’t mean that people who did not vote for him or literally could not vote in the first place are irrelevant. Or what about the people who are actively resisting?
“resisting” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Don’t give them facts. They’re just an irredeemable troll
Unfortunately for the point of this conversation they are irrelevant.
That’s how the process works.
allegedly
No he actually won but I’d love to see evidence if you have any.
i mean, thats what the numbers say, but actually he did a whole-ass treason so… fuck the numbers, actually.
It’s also what all the court cases said so far.
Too bad more people didn’t get off their asses and voted for Harris when it mattered.
If only Harris hadn’t been the VP in a genocidal administration. She might had won
i voted for harris in a gerrymandered district. i didn’t have a vote; i feel distinctly disenfranchised as a matter of fact. edit: guess the state.
If they only would remember this at the next election. If there is a next election…
Dear Constituents,
Until you ignorant cunts stop voting down party lines, you don’t get to act angry, shocked, surprised, disappointed.
It’s the party stupid.
