The US had to come to this point. We couldnāt go on as we were, even under Democratic presidents. For 40 years, a narrow economic elite has been siphoning off ever more wealth and power.
Over the last 40 years, starting with Ronald Reagan, the US went off the rails: deregulation, privatization, free trade, wild gambling by Wall Street, union-busting, monopolization, record levels of inequality, stagnant wages for most, staggering wealth for a few, big money taking over our politics.
Americaās so-called āleadership classā is a sham. Most of them do not care a whit for the rest of the US. They are out for themselves.
The āfucking nightmareā is not over by any stretch. Itās likely to get worse in 2026 as Trump and his sycophants, and many of Americaās āleadersā, realize 2026 may be their last unrestrained year to inflict damage and siphon off the spoils.
LOL no they are not. Queue: āI have to workā, āI have to pay billsā etc etc the best they could do was two āprotestsā on weekends amidst a fascist takeover Americans have no clue what it is to protest or to resist. The next hunger pang is stronger than their willingness or ability to protest. Yet they yammer on endlessly about āmah rightsā and āthe 2nd amendmentā š¤”šÆ
The people who yammer about that are the ones donning ICE gear.
My Dad was a huge 2A nut, specifically because he thought the government will come get him. But he was explicitly afraid of brown people - terrified of Obama and the āradical leftistsā. He prophesied that the Gummit was gonna let āillegalsā take over the country, and āregular folkā wouldnāt have a home left (ie, a white christian ethnostate, which he believed the US should be)