• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Don’t disagree and I honestly hope all of their promises come true this time, abortion restrictions at the federal level, the gutting of government, putting Herschel Walker as the head of the DoD, all of it.

      Americans will never learn unless they suffer.

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        11 days ago

        As an American, you’re right. I guess Trump won’t see consequences, but maybe the country will. And MAYBE voters / non voters will learn something.

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          11 days ago

          I guess Trump won’t see consequences,

          Probably not given his age, diet, and general level of fitness.

          And even if he does live that long, I doubt he will remember it given his clearly declining mental health.

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          11 days ago

          The problem is the consequences are not immediate. This is like making a child sit in their room because they scribbled on the wall in crayon last week. They don’t have the capacity to make that connection.

          If renewed inflation takes another four years to really build up, guess whose fault that becomes? If the climate gets worse over years, decades, generations, no blame here. If Russia invades the Baltic states after consolidating Ukraine, it couldn’t be due to appeasement here. If they succeed in replacing the merit-based civil service with partisan hacks whose only skill is “loyalty”, clearly it’s the swamp that needs to be drained.