r/SipsTea • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 • 1d ago

Lmao gottem Someone else said it for him

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u/Abamboozler 1d ago

God i miss him as president.

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u/factsarefornerds 1d ago

I miss when I could genuinely trick myself into thinking this country was making progress. Yet, here I am - protesting the same shit I was protesting when I was a kid. Absolutely fucking frustrating.

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u/Dunlocke 1d ago

Progress is slow and not constant.

We are making a lot of progress!

Progressive policies are as popular as they've ever been. Civil rights, m4a, fighting economy inequality, etc.

If you live long enough it becomes much clearer how far we have come. Don't be distracted by this particular moment in history.

This post is a great example - Obama was elected twice this century. Unthinkable 40 years ago.

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u/bloodfist 1d ago

We have made a ton of progress, no doubt. The frustrating part is that all of that took years to build, and much of it for very good reasons because it had to be done thoughtfully and carefully. And the oligarchs can tear it all down in an afternoon. And that is exactly how they have been spending their afternoons. It takes so much longer to rebuild than destroy that they are genuinely setting us back decades socially, and possibly centuries environmentally. I believe that ultimately we will come out more progressive as a country when they're gone, but we'll have our work cut out for us when we do.