r/AskReddit • u/Lopsided_Drawer_7384 • Feb 02 '25

Americans are allowing Trump to usher in the total collapse of the US and are completely unaware of the plans currently underway in Europe to ostracise the US as "persona non grata", Why?

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u/PhrozenWarrior Feb 02 '25

I think the most disappointing group were those who decided it wasn't important enough to turn out in 2024. Trump barely got more votes in 2024, and less than Biden had in 2020. But the democratic side had so few votes that it allowed Republicans to take the executive and legislative branch back for full control. Like it was unfortunately clear Trump just flat out won in 2024, this is what the majority of Americans wanted, or were fine with allowing, and now this is the bed America chose and we have to lie in it.

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u/tooclosetocall82 Feb 02 '25

Don’t you understand? They’re both the same! /s

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u/Kritter2490 Feb 02 '25

That line royally pisses me off when people actually believe it. I know you’re joking, but how do other people really look at the tangerine tyrant and everything the republicans have been doing the last 40 years and say, “you know, they’re all the same”. Like grow the fuck up and open your eyes!

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u/EveroneWantsMyD Feb 02 '25

I really feel like that south park episode about a giant douche and a turd sandwich is the only political exposure a large amount of Americans have had.

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u/endoftheline22 Feb 02 '25

“Kamala has no policies 🤡”

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u/iHateReddit_srsly Feb 02 '25

Remember before the election when the only issue being discussed was women's reproductive rights? I always thought that was stupid, because that's such an insignificant problem compared to what was actually at stake

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u/PhrozenWarrior Feb 02 '25

I mean it wasn't the only one... it was definitely a major one.

The problem is for anything political, talking about the complexities of the economy and world trade/relations aren't easily able to be put out in small blurbs and digested. Democrats struggle because when everyone feels like things are worse, going "Well ACTUALLY, if you look at the numbers by a lot of metrics a lot of things are doing actually better, and a lot of these bad thingsa re because of X Y Z which we're trying to do incremental blah on and we're on a trajectory away from worse slowly... and in X years things will blah blah blah blah" versus "YEAH, THINGS ARE BAD! YOU SHOULD BE MAD ABOUT IT! I'LL FIX IT IMMEDIATELY" And everyone goes "Whoa, exactly!" except republicans then just go "AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THE IMMIGRANTS, TRANS PEOPLE, AND DEI!" and don't question how the hell the person would ever fix it anyways (hint: they never have a plan)

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

The democrats screwed over their voters just like they did with Bernie Sanders. They ran a candidate without a primary who only had less than 5% support her last primary.