Your farmers are collapsing and going bankrupt, your job creation is falling, you are cutting SNAP benefits and billionaires are getting tax breaks.
I just don't understand why so many Americans are on board with this.
The people who shout down calls for student loan forgiveness are in full support of it if it helps ICE hit their recruitment targets.
Why wouldn't those same people, who want international aid to go to zero be fine with a multi billion bailout of a South American country?
America is effectively two different countries at this point.
> Trevor died from liver disease that would have been preventable if he had had access to health care. But until his dying breath, he agreed with the policies that prevented ACA improvements because he did not want his tax dollars to pay for Mexicans or "welfare queens".
My plan is to just die once my body eventually gives out. So far, on point.
America has practiced this trick well.
So it's a ploy to expand the military budget beyond what was allocated by Congress. Either way, that's a money sink, not an investment.
Bread (McDonalds, BurgerKing) and circus (TV, streaming).
Citizens used to mostly talk to each other and make for a slow moving consensus, with a small overton window of broadcast mass media anchoring people to the status quo. Now they have a constant stream of grade A bullshit propaganda pumped into their eyes every time they check their phone, complete with a simulation of social proof as well. Remember the first Trump term when the party of "from my cold dead hands" was enthusiastically cheering on the jackboots for doing the exact type of night time home invasion that runs roughshod over the idea of self defense ? That's the level of extreme cognitive dissonance that social media can support.
The political reason is saving the image of corporatism. Argentina under Milei was hyped as the libertarian paradise to happen real soon now. Unfortunately it went down-under even faster, exactly as everyone with a brain expected.
The structure of the system itself has flaws in the same way, because of that asymmetry, on the positive side it allows someone capable to do great things with the resources available, but equally when you have a rotten cancerous parasitic crop of leaders, it spreads that corruption and toxic love everywhere just like Hexxus as he gets out of the prison.
American's aren't on board when that sacred promise is broken by oathbreakers. It does take time for the abuses to accumulate before a population will be spurned to action, it always happens like this during the fall of empires.
The environment becomes so disadvantaged and rife with abuse that the average person understands that there is no out, you can't get away, there is only through. The same as was brilliant depicted in Andor.
People will starve, but the abuses are necessary to mobilize the population to action. It doesn't happen otherwise because the consequence is too great (existentially so).