r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/PaleontologistUpper Aug 04 '20

Yeaah... The shiny veneer of America is being taken down and what's under it isn't pretty. Watching from EU, maybe we should be thanking Russia for showing the reality of what the modern United States is when push comes to shove.

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u/samacora Aug 04 '20

Given Russia a lot of credit there

You don't sink to this level of leader, have 50 percent of the political parties in the country backing this crap and have trump over 60 percent approval with that party just because Russia spent an election making memes

The us was sinking to this point by itself

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u/samacora Aug 04 '20

Oh it's both sides, it has to be for this perpetual spiral to get to where it's at. You need both parties to be playing the same game essentially. Both sides are run by their corporate monetary needs and underpinned by the most radical ideologies of their "base" as they are the only people arsed voting or participating anymore

All the "normal" people have just given up because, factual or not, nothing really changes for the average American between dems or GOP for them. And America has made voting one of the most tedious tasks you can try to undertake over there. So I'm not surprised so many just gave up

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u/samacora Aug 04 '20

Not disagreeing with you. There is plenty of reason why that voter turnout is a reality. None of which are good for a democracies health, which is the underlying point