I made the mistake of reading a reddit thread on the politics subreddit about Biden giving a speech to step down. The full-throated, salivating vapid patriotism brain was hard to read, to say the least. People calling him a great leader and such things. Acting like it was some amazing act simply for him to choose to step down. One of the worst people in modern US history, his political career. The inability to have any standards at all drives me up the wall. It’s like the US electoral version of what I see on some game forums, where people will praise and defend anything a game company does because it’s their favorite game.
Like even setting aside the whole genocide thing, not that it should be set aside, but pretending for a second that it wasn’t that obvious the issues with these presidents. People still will do this “lesser evil” thing with no standards. Like my god, what about good things? Um, are you okay in there? How do you still think this is a democracy, republic, whatever (some form of government where you have choice) while believing your options are limited to evil and evil?
I made the mistake of reading a reddit thread on the politics subreddit about Biden giving a speech to step down. The full-throated, salivating vapid patriotism brain was hard to read, to say the least. People calling him a great leader and such things. Acting like it was some amazing act simply for him to choose to step down. One of the worst people in modern US history, his political career. The inability to have any standards at all drives me up the wall. It’s like the US electoral version of what I see on some game forums, where people will praise and defend anything a game company does because it’s their favorite game.
Like even setting aside the whole genocide thing, not that it should be set aside, but pretending for a second that it wasn’t that obvious the issues with these presidents. People still will do this “lesser evil” thing with no standards. Like my god, what about good things? Um, are you okay in there? How do you still think this is a democracy, republic, whatever (some form of government where you have choice) while believing your options are limited to evil and evil?
US thought is exhausting.
US mainstream politics is best viewed in terms of religious sects that are having a schism at the moment.
I remember reading about your post on that the other day. Interesting perspective on it.
Framing it that way helped me make sense of wtf is happening in US and why.