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- colin_s2
I'm mostly amazed that people in America are still shocked by Trump and his actions. Dude was elected by overwhelming the media with one story after another, one gasp after the next, except then it was all talk because it is all he had.
The same has been his presidency - one action after another, each increasingly more provocative and more strong-arm, from the travel bans to twitter fights to the North Korea summit to children in cages. He isn't going to stop, and chances are it'll be something else before this gets resolved.
I'm still outraged at all the people who sat by as Obama expanded the drone program, left gitmo open and all but allowed for federal coordination to end Occupy Wall Street, yet these people are seemingly shocked someone comes along and takes that power and uses it for even worse acts.
It is what it is at this point - Americans are stuck in their little screens of outrage and because so few stepped up six years ago, there's little to no hope they'll have any sense of coordinated effort to respond now. Oh, outside "voting them out," because I guess they imagine nobody else will ever be corrupted by soft money and big business / global corporate interests.
- What about the fact that many people support drone strikes, support a hard line on immigration, and probably cheered as Occupy got crushed?yuekit
- It's not just that people are apathetic and we have bad leaders. The reality is that much of America supports (and even demands) these policies that the leftyuekit
- criticizes.yuekit
- ^ Agreed but there's also probably a lot of people with a natural human reaction that says, 'oh that doesn't affect me, no big deal' til it does affect them...mandomafioso