Send me bad puns. Good puns welcome too.
The death of the American dream is a big one. Speaking very generally, men want a better future for themselves and are willing to follow whoever promises it, while women are being specifically targeted by conservatives an don’t want anything to do with that shit. The weakness of the American left means that the average person only sees establishment centrism and far-right fascism as options. Also people simply don’t know or think that much about the things you mentioned.
The death of the American dream is a big one. Speaking very generally, men want a better future for themselves and are willing to follow whoever promises it, while women are being specifically targeted by conservatives an don’t want anything to do with that shit. The weakness of the American left means that the average person only sees establishment centrism and far-right fascism as options.
the Republicans who are presently in charge also didn’t get rid of the filibuster to end the shutdown like Trump asked them to.
Yes, because the Democrats folded.
The legislative branch is in a state of permanent deadlock,
Intentional permanent deadlock. There’s a reason Democrats refuse to get rid of the filibuster.
I’ve seen this anime before.
The military can make no claim to honor
Never could.
Reminder to all the people newly against extrajudicial killing of random people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing#North_America
We don’t summarily execute people at the president’s say.
Yeah… no.
And given how chicken shit Americans collectively are he’ll most likely die of old age before facing extralegal responsibility for his crimes.
Man this is fucking stupid.
Did y’all not learn anything from the War on Terror? This shit does not work. Western Germany wasn’t “rehabilitated” by the Allied occupation, but by decades of action post-occupation. The Allied occupation was perfectly content to coopt Nazis into its anti-Soviet bloc.
Because why not? Seriously that’s it.
I don’t know if they do, but they don’t care. Israel, despite how much it markets itself as such, is not a nation of Holocaust survivors.
You’re being downvoted because The Independent is a news outlet, not a country.
Yeah that’s fair, though I do have to note that other than Yom Kippur in none of Israel’s past conflicts was it seriously outnumbered. That’s the image they like to sell, and intuitively it feels like it should be true, but it’s really not. Israel has always been good at raising massive armies relative to their population, and for instance surprisingly way outnumbered their enemies in 1948. Again not contesting your point; I agree that they were much more competent in the past.
Not disagreeing, but “at this point” implies they were ever anything else.
People want answers, not necessarily simple ones (any answer can be sufficiently simplified), but answers. I mean, it’s not like “the rich are robbing you blind” is much more complicated than “immigrants and the gays are ruining this country;” it’s a question of which message is being amplified and being turned into real action.