Americans really got bored with free trade, the best and brightest in the world wanting to come here, low corruption and childhood diseases like measles being eradicated.
I guess things are definitely less boring now. Worse, but also less boring.
@carnage4life so there were no problems in America to address? This system was working well for all Americans? https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116098902726924703
@codinghorror Are things better now? 🙃
@carnage4life and a highly polarized two party system is the worst form of democracy, so… https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116104218445674780
@codinghorror @carnage4life You do *not* have a polarized two-party system. You have one boring middle:of-the-spectrum party and a corrupt lying cheating fascist-adjacent ultra-extremist party. The problem is unipolar.
@timbray @codinghorror @carnage4life
In fact, the main reason someone like Trump got there is because people has a lot of problems neither Democrats nor Republicans were doing anything meaningful to solve.
Trump is making everyone of them even worse, of course, but when people is desperate enough, they believe anything.
When people have problems, politicians have to propose solutions, no desperation.
And basing your political platform on fighting fascism is not solving the underlying problems, so it is doomed to fail.
It is happening everywhere, but politicians seem oblivious to it.
@jgg @timbray @codinghorror @carnage4life it’s not even that people will pick the outsider just to try something different but a lot of people just give up and don’t bother.
One day hopefully the democrats realize that the strategy of ‘you don’t have a choice but to vote for us’ isn’t inspiring or even democratic.