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I'm just going to point out that the ultimate victims of this idiocy are the working class.
The wealthy will still be wealthy regardless
I'm just going to point out that the working class had the chance to vote against this and didn't.
The average age of an empire is 250 years, the US is 249 years old. The only solution to this might require a "significant restructuring"....
No they didn't.
The working class had the option to vote for keeping things the way they are, or dramatic change and hope for the best.
They voted for dramatic change, because the way things are isn't working.
Most people are politically tuned out, and just want to pay their bills and have some fun on the weekend. They see bills are getting harder to pay and what they can do on the weekend is getting more expensive. Like it or not, the Republicans did a good job spreading the message that a vote for them will make things cheaper somehow.
We know it isn't true, but we're both chronically online, somewhat informed, and statistically are likely to have an above average intelligence. We do not form a good cross section of the voting public. We voted against the tyrant.
But we're also both smart enough to know that we weren't voting for somebody that would actually fix any of those problems. We were voting against a dollar store tyrant and hoping for the best.
And, even if everything I said is wrong, nearly half of the working class did vote against it.
Hoping that everybody suffers because of the ignorant, short sighted decision of half of them is fucked up my guy.
Voting for dramatic change has a positive ring to it, which makes some implications falsehoods.
Voting for dramatic change that we have been plainly shown and openly promised will take everything that's bad about the system and make it dramatically worse, now that's something that's idiotic, and that's what happened.
Yes, they did, Trump was clear about his plan for tariffs. Being completely fucking ignorant about your country's political situation does not mean the information was not available or that the option to vote against it didn't exist.
Less than a third voted against him. A third voted in favour of this shit, and the last third didn't bother to show up.
I'm not hoping people suffer, but when 66% of the population either supported this or was indifferent to it I am not going to be emotionally invested when it comes to the consequences of their actions.
I am one person, 77 million people said they wanted this, and another 90 million said "this is fine". Who am I to argue with them? Let them have what they wanted.
They get to buy the dip.
Good to see nothing has changed in 40 years.