• froh42@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Trump is only the symptom. I’ve seen the Republicans walk into this direction more and more every cycle. Bush, Dubya, ahh then I remember Palin who didn’t win with her Tea Party chums etc. - it culminated in Maga.

    And even if Trump turns dead by suffocation, having his head up Putin’ s ass tomorrow - he’s only the most visible figure of this theater, and there a few more who probably wait to be King when the King is dead.

    Nevertheless, what the post before said is important - the US was a soft power, being in the center of a huge balanced. network of allies. That network, the one the Magas shat on, is what guaranteed stability for all. (And yes, I’m aware politics always was a dirty business - but not in this way)

    There were probably a lot of shouting matches between politicians in the past, probably even between presidents. But fucking never on live TV, now none of they can’t move without losing face. What a sharade.

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      20 hours ago

      The die was cast when the loathsome Newt Gingrich convinced the GOP that their opponents were enemies to be destroyed at any cost. And not loyal opposition to be persuaded or compromised with.

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      2 days ago

      Perhaps the political posturing and theatrics are what’s needed to disappear from politics. But then again, it’s their bread and butter.

      I sort of hold hope that this meeting will be enough to mobilize those with the power to do something, but I also know it depends heavily on interests.

      Regardless of the end result, the pointless loss of life will continue to the selfishness of a few.