It’s very likely, a lot of people have a very short term memory and not a lot of critical thinking.
NoSomewhere7653 on
I know it will happen. It happens every time.
Capable_Victory_7807 on
I disagree. With sooooo much room for improvement, it’s going to seem like a golden age with even the most mediocre leadership.
Boring_Pace5158 on
And we’ll have a media that will go on blaming Democrats for everything, even though they’re the ones trying to fix everything with one hand tied behind their backs.
Watch idiot podcast bros spew shit about how much things were better under Trump.
mnlion33 on
Fox news will make sure of it.
jarena009 on
The thing is, the next Democratic admin needs to rule with an iron fist and deliver some significant wins, or else they’ll be out in 2032 (same with a Democratic congress in 2030), and we’ll just get someone as bad or worse than Trump.
celix24 on
unfortunately, it’s by design.
WasteBinStuff on
I’m thinking I’m going to be pretty fucking happy if we have a fair and open election to begin with, then we’ll see about a peaceful transfer of power. After that I’ll worry about how we start fixing things.
Zargoza1 on
The confederacy needs to be finally dismantled this time.
ConsciousReason7709 on
That’s America for you. The bar that Democrats have to clear is always higher than Republicans for some reason despite the fact that Republicans are the reason we can’t have nice things in this country.
Tories dismantled the country over past 14 years, Labour have 5 years to fix everything before Tories or God forbid Reform come in and destroy everything so it cannot be recovered from.
TheZoltan on
Crazy to still read such optimistic takes. I’m skeptical that the US will ever have an election free and fair enough for the Dems to win again.
Tar-Nuine on
The same reason nothing ever improves in America.
Going back <30 years Republicans with no idea about fiscal responsibility trash the economy and alienate allies, Dems get overwhelmingly elected to fix everything, too distracted picking up the pieces to actually enact positive change, and too embattled by the dirty tactics of the GOP who run a smear campaign calling the dems “Boring”, so the Reps get voted back in.
Rinse and repeat until the dems have to literally and physically rebuild the country while Reps sit back and call dems blood drinking demon worshippers because they **Checks notes** won’t let them marry their 13 yr old cousins.
wannabe_nerd2811 on
I often said to my European friends that the US will not recover from the damage Trump has done for decades to come. If China does not destroy itself somehow it will be the dominant superpower of the 21 century and maybe even beyond. My biggest fear is the known trope that historically speaking empires rarely go down quietly and peacefully. And to watch a military and economically behemoth as the US on its decline is a quite horrifying outlook.
SaveTheAles on
Imagine trying to restore all the government jobs that were cut. That alone is going to be a huge problem.
LavenderGwendolyn on
It depends how they handle it. On the face of it, I like Wes Moore’s system that he has talked about in a few places of putting things in buckets: “this program/service/infrastructure is broken and we need to start over, this one is broken but fixable, this one only needs minor tweaks, this one is not broken but ought to be, and this is fine let’s leave it alone.” Once a real overhaul system like this starts, it might move quickly.
Marsupialize on
Anyone who thinks these people will ever give up power needs their head examined people still don’t understand what’s happened here
DickRichman on
Hell republican chumps blame Biden for 2020.
hyperblob1 on
They’ll cow tow to Israel and deserve it
kyledreamboat on
I want massive taxes on companies that bribed Trump at least.
guestpassonly on
Yeap.
It’s always been the same, exact, pattern.
This WILL happen again unless something fundamental changes.
wormee on
And they will 100% blame the boondoggle Iran war on the Democrats. The MAGA chuds in my family are already blaming Obama.
madkins007 on
But that’s the general pattern, isn’t it? Republican leadership messed things up, Democrat leadership tries to fix it and makes progress.
Impatient voters vote Republicans back in since they ‘promised’ it was better before and they can fix things (that they generally broke but are blaming on Democrats.)
samanime on
My hope is that the blue wave is large enough that they can pass enough laws to prevent another Trump, even if they can’t fully fix everything.
It’s a long shot, but at this point, you kind of have to choose optimism or nihilism, and nihilism is useless.
Sharticus123 on
The incoming democrat is going to govern like it’s 1995, ignore all of the crime and corruption of trump’s second term, slurp AIPAC’s asshole for four years, and then get trounced in the election.
awkwardleftshoe on
Recent history suggests they’ll try to skate by with kudos for being ‘not that guy’ and not fix anything. They’ll get booted for not making peoples live better for a populist who is supported by competent fascists which makes things worser. And repeat.
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It’s very likely, a lot of people have a very short term memory and not a lot of critical thinking.
I know it will happen. It happens every time.
I disagree. With sooooo much room for improvement, it’s going to seem like a golden age with even the most mediocre leadership.
And we’ll have a media that will go on blaming Democrats for everything, even though they’re the ones trying to fix everything with one hand tied behind their backs.
Watch idiot podcast bros spew shit about how much things were better under Trump.
Fox news will make sure of it.
The thing is, the next Democratic admin needs to rule with an iron fist and deliver some significant wins, or else they’ll be out in 2032 (same with a Democratic congress in 2030), and we’ll just get someone as bad or worse than Trump.
unfortunately, it’s by design.
I’m thinking I’m going to be pretty fucking happy if we have a fair and open election to begin with, then we’ll see about a peaceful transfer of power. After that I’ll worry about how we start fixing things.
The confederacy needs to be finally dismantled this time.
That’s America for you. The bar that Democrats have to clear is always higher than Republicans for some reason despite the fact that Republicans are the reason we can’t have nice things in this country.
https://preview.redd.it/ghdz5yhv2dug1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=70920a19341087c0e6a8f9e162062767ccb4faf5
Happens in the UK too.
Tories dismantled the country over past 14 years, Labour have 5 years to fix everything before Tories or God forbid Reform come in and destroy everything so it cannot be recovered from.
Crazy to still read such optimistic takes. I’m skeptical that the US will ever have an election free and fair enough for the Dems to win again.
The same reason nothing ever improves in America.
Going back <30 years Republicans with no idea about fiscal responsibility trash the economy and alienate allies, Dems get overwhelmingly elected to fix everything, too distracted picking up the pieces to actually enact positive change, and too embattled by the dirty tactics of the GOP who run a smear campaign calling the dems “Boring”, so the Reps get voted back in.
Rinse and repeat until the dems have to literally and physically rebuild the country while Reps sit back and call dems blood drinking demon worshippers because they **Checks notes** won’t let them marry their 13 yr old cousins.
I often said to my European friends that the US will not recover from the damage Trump has done for decades to come. If China does not destroy itself somehow it will be the dominant superpower of the 21 century and maybe even beyond. My biggest fear is the known trope that historically speaking empires rarely go down quietly and peacefully. And to watch a military and economically behemoth as the US on its decline is a quite horrifying outlook.
Imagine trying to restore all the government jobs that were cut. That alone is going to be a huge problem.
It depends how they handle it. On the face of it, I like Wes Moore’s system that he has talked about in a few places of putting things in buckets: “this program/service/infrastructure is broken and we need to start over, this one is broken but fixable, this one only needs minor tweaks, this one is not broken but ought to be, and this is fine let’s leave it alone.” Once a real overhaul system like this starts, it might move quickly.
Anyone who thinks these people will ever give up power needs their head examined people still don’t understand what’s happened here
Hell republican chumps blame Biden for 2020.
They’ll cow tow to Israel and deserve it
I want massive taxes on companies that bribed Trump at least.
Yeap.
It’s always been the same, exact, pattern.
This WILL happen again unless something fundamental changes.
And they will 100% blame the boondoggle Iran war on the Democrats. The MAGA chuds in my family are already blaming Obama.
But that’s the general pattern, isn’t it? Republican leadership messed things up, Democrat leadership tries to fix it and makes progress.
Impatient voters vote Republicans back in since they ‘promised’ it was better before and they can fix things (that they generally broke but are blaming on Democrats.)
My hope is that the blue wave is large enough that they can pass enough laws to prevent another Trump, even if they can’t fully fix everything.
It’s a long shot, but at this point, you kind of have to choose optimism or nihilism, and nihilism is useless.
The incoming democrat is going to govern like it’s 1995, ignore all of the crime and corruption of trump’s second term, slurp AIPAC’s asshole for four years, and then get trounced in the election.
Recent history suggests they’ll try to skate by with kudos for being ‘not that guy’ and not fix anything. They’ll get booted for not making peoples live better for a populist who is supported by competent fascists which makes things worser. And repeat.