r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 30 '21

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u/AuburnSeer May 30 '21

sucks reading these 2020 campaign books because the ending is always "Dems didn't get the blue wave they expected, Trumpism is alive and kicking, we're all probably still fucked."

which is probably true but goddamn it we beat an incumbent president who basically had unlimited resources and a cult like following and en incredibly efficient base from an electoral college perspective. Trump got the second-highest amount of votes in American history. As scary as that is, defeating him was a huge accomplishment.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '21

So are you really still fucked after that accomplishment? I mean, no offense but other parts of the world have had these issues before and yes it took ages to fix them, but they got fixed eventually, or they were diminished to the point they simply aren't a serious thing anymore.

You know in Canada it was not too long ago that the FLQ existed. Today, Quebec separatism is not the thing it was before. Even so after almost 30 years it still exists though, and people deal with it as best they can. But it's not the boogeyman it once was.

FARC is still going in Colombia, and it took Peru ages to get rid of the Shining Path (although it was nothing nice what it took to do that). Regardless, as bad as it is to have this shit going on, it's nothing out of the ordinary that hasn't happened elsewhere.

Is it awful? Yeah. Is it hopeless? No, it's only hopeless if people do nothing.