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Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars,

Chainweasel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You can only drop something so many times before it actually breaks, and we never really fixed the cracks caused by the civil war.
Reconstruction ended early after Johnson took office and as a result we didn’t end segregation in the south until a century after the war ended, there are people alive now who stillremember segregation and they liked it that way, and now they’re empowered, both metaphorically and literally, thanks to the gerontocracy we’ve created.
We’re going to tear ourselves apart trying to undo 60 years of progress over the next 4 years.
I feel like if we pull through this as an intact nation it’s not going to be recognizable as the nation we grew up in until long after we’re all gone. It’s going to take generations to clean up this mess.

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Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Agree 100%.

Although I don’t just blame the old people, a lot of them were hippies.

We’re still the same divided country we were in the civil war, racists and oligarchs vs people of better character.

Trump has, even at this early point, permanently changed the political realities of this country. He will be remembered for elevating the presidency to the point where the rule of law no longer applies.

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- DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  a lot of them were hippies.
  
  A lot of them were hippies that became selfish assholes. People change. Especially when there are propaganda networks working to change them.
  
  We’re still the same divided country we were in the civil war
  
  Except now every stupid, racist asshole has the ability to spread their message to millions of people.
  
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- vala@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Likely less than 1% of boomers were hippies. They call it “counter culture” for a reason.
  
  What most people would consider “hippies” consisted of a pretty small group of people mostly living in California.
  
  A larger and much less genuine movement came later when John Lennon decided to appropriate hippy fashion. But that’s all it was (fashion).
  
  People who truly held core values like “peace, free love and compassion” were absolutely not the majority but they were loud and colorful and now we remember that period of time as being overrun with hippies.
  
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- MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Don’t say you agree 100% and then say although.
  
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- possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m so proud that Congress has taken it apon themselves to do nothing.
  
  Abuse of power isn’t political and can come from either side. We need to limit the executive branch
  
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It also has given me a lot of hope. There is a ton of backlash from people from all walks of life.

I think we all need more empathy and understanding

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