Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign? : asklemmy

[-] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

After this one? We don't. We went back more than half-a-century this time around. Gonna take a bit, if at all.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, the way we "went back to normal" after an intense election campaign in 2015-2016 was just...not. Not letting it end for the last nine years. This is essentially still the same campaign that started with the stupid escalator ride. I hope it actually does go back to some semblance of normal in a few months, and we can see how that works then.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I think Americans need to address the flaws in their 2 party political system and start working on a change, but it'll never happen because neither party would give up power like that.

Two party system is inherently divisive especially with so much foreign and domestic propaganda. More options would not only reduce the total surface area of conflicts, but it would make propaganda much harder and represent people more closely.

[+] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee -12 points 18 hours ago

Idk maybe I'm getting older, but I've been through enough elections in my life to step back and see that this happens every time. The Internet turns to shit and everyone flings shit for a few days and then it's back to normal.

I feel like I'm past my prime in caring as much this year. My battles were fought in the past and now I'm disinterested in politics because I've been disappointed every time.

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[+] LunarVoyager@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Was America ever "normal"?

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

According to my American gf: being a decent human being

[-] Jayb151@lemmy.world -2 points 21 hours ago

Nothing to get back to when you don't pay attention in the first place

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Most my friends are republicans so we shit talk a lot back and forth. After the election we will just shit talk about something else. Yes we are over 40 and still act like teenagers.

My main concern right now is that my two oldest kids are asking me why I’m voting for Harris lol.

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yes we are over 40 and still act like teenagers

NGL that is something I hope to preserve with my friends too!

[+] PanArab@lemm.ee -7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I curse and shout whenever I see a political ad. I cut relations with all Trump supporters back in 2016 and now I am cutting off all Harris supporters.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Help them to understand what happened, why it happened, and what will happen. After 2016, I had to explain to my lib family members that no, black people didn't cause Hillary to lose, the dems gave us trump by failing to even promise to improve people's material conditions, and to my conservative acquaintances "no, trump is not draining the swamp, he is a billionaire, he IS the swamp."

In 2020, it was "no, Biden isn't going to stop covid, empty the migrant camps, or abolish the police, he's going to continue 95% of Trump's policies, we've seen this all before under Clinton and Obama."

[-] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 1 day ago

It is like any other election for me. I don't want either of them. I'm guaranteed to be disappointed.

[+] pandapoo@sh.itjust.works -10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't assume that the majority of people who vote for Trump, are MAGA.

Many, if not most, are the same as many Biden/Harris voters in that they hate both candidates, and are voting for who they view as the lesser of two evils.

As I'm a Lemmy user, you can safely assume I'm not one of them, but the point stands.

But, if you're talking about people who have gone full on MAGA insanity, well they probably got there somewhere between 2016 and 2020, so there's not a a ton of new converts to deal with.

And even with then, they're the minority of a minority.

Of course, if someone is of the opinion that anyone who votes for Trump, no matter the reason, must be excised from their life, well that's their choice, but I kind of pity them.

Trump is not Hitler. He's too lazy and stupid to be Hitler. Let's not pretend that voting for Trump is the same as supporting Hitler, it's not.

He's a piece of shit authoritarian, but on the scale of American Presidents, the areas where he deviates the most from the norm, is how stupid and crass his corruption and racism is, not that he was corrupt and racist.

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[+] CondensedPossum@lemmy.world -12 points 1 day ago

I still can't look you people (Americans) in the face from the last dozen horrible things you've collectively done.

How can you ever let your guard down around this maniac society, let alone go back to normal?

Living in the interior of the stolen lands, what normal do you even think there is to offer? Endless towns build on nothing but walmarts and jails, having displaced any culture of value generations ago.

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