The pathway to chronic fatigue leading to inaction is lined by people catastrophizing every day. Sometimes I wish the criticism of Trump was a bit more targeted. Some people claimed with a straight face that he would amend the constitution to take away women’s voting rights on his first day of office. While time and effort was spent talking about that, some of the “lesser activities” he performed, like greatly curtailing the EPA, or budget cuts to the IRS went unnoticed.
I don’t know if there is a name for this effect, but it seems like so many people are talking about how the world is burning in every way and that makes it difficult to conduct opposition to his efforts.
The only “good thing” for me is that almost by any way you measure his presidency, it’s been pretty bad. Wages haven’t gone up, productivity hasn’t gone up, GNP hasn’t gone up, etc. Every day it gets a little harder for his fans to defend him. I suspect instead of leaning on actual data that they will just confabulate some other data that makes things seem favorable.
I find it a little comforting to think that it wouldn’t have gone as bad as this if Kamala got in.
Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.
That is the unfortunate reality of it. I wish I could say that I hope it will be different this time but…
About the one hope I have is that during the next iteration we overhaul society’s systems to so solidly work for the average person that it helps counteract this cycle, but it’s hard to stay optimistic for sure
The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting
The pathway to chronic fatigue leading to inaction is lined by people catastrophizing every day. Sometimes I wish the criticism of Trump was a bit more targeted. Some people claimed with a straight face that he would amend the constitution to take away women’s voting rights on his first day of office. While time and effort was spent talking about that, some of the “lesser activities” he performed, like greatly curtailing the EPA, or budget cuts to the IRS went unnoticed.
I don’t know if there is a name for this effect, but it seems like so many people are talking about how the world is burning in every way and that makes it difficult to conduct opposition to his efforts.
The only “good thing” for me is that almost by any way you measure his presidency, it’s been pretty bad. Wages haven’t gone up, productivity hasn’t gone up, GNP hasn’t gone up, etc. Every day it gets a little harder for his fans to defend him. I suspect instead of leaning on actual data that they will just confabulate some other data that makes things seem favorable.
I find it a little comforting to think that it wouldn’t have gone as bad as this if Kamala got in.
I hope as fuck that everyone who said that eventually realize they were warned, and take some humility into the future
Maybe, maybe, break Cassandra’s curse. At least for a little bit
Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.
That is the unfortunate reality of it. I wish I could say that I hope it will be different this time but…
About the one hope I have is that during the next iteration we overhaul society’s systems to so solidly work for the average person that it helps counteract this cycle, but it’s hard to stay optimistic for sure
There are plenty of people overreacting, so stop overreacting about no overreaction /s