VaranDragon wrote on Feb 3, 2025, 08:54:
DarkCntry wrote on Feb 2, 2025, 21:13:
It doesn't surprise me that you, Cutter, have no issue with freezing things that support people who have trouble supporting themselves, or supporting efforts to expand access to what would otherwise be unavailable to groups...but what does surprise me is how you think that doing any of this is going to help a taxpayer, short or long term.
What is surprising to me is how many people are watching the Trump "runaway train" from the sidelines, and quietly cheering on for it to continue it's rampage come what may. There seem to be lot of people in the world who enjoy watching the world burn.
It isn't so much that people want to see the world burn, at least for me. It's more the case that the people of the US have prospered so much under the safety net that regulations provide, they no longer believe there are any threats. This is like the patient that feels better after taking a few doses of medicine so they feel like they don't have to take their medicine anymore.
On some level I feel like we need to let the GOPs crazy ideas play out so that people can see what a burning world actually looks like. Then maybe there will be an "aha" moment and they will say, "Oh, this is obviously batshit insane." If not, we will limp along in this horrible us vs. them state until we are literally at each other's throats.
Of course I have no faith in the ability of the average voter to come to a rational conclusion anyway so it will probably all still get blamed on Obama.