I didn’t vote for Trump, this is not a justification for anything he is doing, this is purely me trying to find any crumb of hope in this abysmal situation.

The country was in decline for at least a decade before Trump took office. So far everything has been a slow boil and we Americans just take it imo.

Maybe Trump will make everything so awful so quickly it will force actual change. Basically we were slowly heating the water and when it turned lukewarm Trump just cranked the heat up to max, maybe the frog realizes this and jumps out.

  • Montagge@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    slavery has been abolished

    Took a civil war

    all men and women can vote

    Not all and women voting took violent riots to come to be

    child labor abolished

    40 hour work week

    People died in gun battles against the government and hired guns to get these

    gay marriage legal

    It’s legal but easy to take away, and also took violent riots

    • LesserAbe@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      I’ll quote my reply to the other person:

      OP said “maybe something good will come out of this” and you said look at history, the best that will happen is some minor temporary improvement. I pointed out several significant long lasting advances. I don’t see where anything you said here disproves that.

      As I said, yes, there are significant problems we need to address. But being negative to the point of denying reality isn’t some act of resistance, it’s capitulation. Telling people there’s no hope helps the enemy.