How Americans are allowing this circus to go on is completely beyond me. The country is a laughing stock.
We could talk about all the way stupid things like this can be gamed but the fact it's evening happening at all is purely breathtaking...
But I get the helplessness too. It's really absolutely unbelievable. I'd say most people are still in denial.
And, yes, I do know that our current predicament is 30 years in the making, and will take years to fix. I've been working with these groups since 2015, banging the drums, trying to explain to Ds & Rs that our govt(s) (at all levels!) are weak, and easily targeted by foreign & domestic actors due to widespread gerrymandering, high incumbency rates, low primary engagement, and first-past-the-post voting. Our naysayers are — as always — far-right groups interested in autocracy and oligarchy.
https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2024-03-04/arn...
DOGE will find it hard to function effectively if they have to squirm through an angry picket line every day.
Most European countries have had significant shifts to the right in recent elections. Many European leaders have acknowledged Trump was right regarding a lot of things in his first term, and that Europe would have been better off had they listened to him.
The laughing stock on the world's stage is far left politics. Their foothold on Western society has crumbled, and wide scale incompetance and corruption has been exposed. If this wasn't the case, elections wouldn't be abandoning leftist policies to move to the right.
Well, no, this didn't happen in many countries and not even being right on a lot of things
Who did and what did they say? Cite your sources.
I hear this so, so much but I've seen next to know evidence presented. I've lived in Europe under "lefty" governments and it would be pretty hard to say it was a "corrupt" system?
All I remember is high taxes, good public infrastructure and healthcare and social benefits. To say it was corrupt is ridiculous.