Retrenchment and regression happen, progress isn't always a straight line forward. And the opposite contains some wisdom unfortunately. All the right wing people who believe this reset is healthy have to know it's not going to stay that way. The dialectic of the left and right means that things will swing back and forth.
I'm so far left that it seems to me to swing from far right to center, and back.
There are two ideas. Don't get along with government, government needs to be cut and limited. The other idea is that we should redistribute money through taxation and programs, and ameliorate some of the excesses of capitalism. We should promote the common good through healthcare, education, transportation, infrastructure, and even defense and foreign policy.
I do think America gets over it's skis with ideas of exceptionalism. The Marshall Plan was a good thing to do, in our own best interest.
Clearly what is going on in America is very destructive at the moment. After Woodrow Wilson came FDR, and his years as presidents created the Reagan voters and over and over again. I don't know if I'll see the end of this great depression or not, I'm getting older. I don't know if I'll see the booming 90's again, seems unlikely.
Humans are stupid and limited and selfish and short sighted, and can be amazingly spiritual, kind, generous, wise and insightful. Their politics reflect that.
I don't mean to be blase and abstract about all the people dying. It's hard to imagine people straight up dying because of this regime but it's happening. From the loss of due process to life giving benefit cuts, to withholding health care, and on and on. Supporting the genocide in Gaza, to shifting to voting with Russia in the UN.
I keep coming back to the 2 humans who said to me they don't notice a difference between Obama and Trump. So willfully ignorant and proud of it.
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