JadeRose wrote:I despise Trump but he is not the disease as most think. He's just another symptom. He is but a festering pustule on the 'taint of the disease ridden body. Our whole system is broken beyond repair. The real powers that be LOVE to see the divisiveness that has permeated this country. While we fight about Trump and Pelosi, they steal more wealth, more power and more of our freedoms. Americans have grown, fat, lazy, and stupid. We bicker and fight on the internet and it FEELS like we are doing something about "our side" when, in fact, we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. Being distracted. None of this matters anymore. Whether Trump is POTUS or Hilldog, Bush, Bernie, or Obama. Different puppets...same strings. Our current system is f*cked beyond repair, in my opinion, and it all needs to burn and have a new one built upon it's ashes.
I was with you...except the fourth and last sentences. As cynical as I am, I still believe we're nowhere near as bad as that. I have some confidence that the current parties/system will swing back into something a bit more workable.
I do agree that some very powerful 'entities' absolutely love the divisiveness....not just enjoy it, but work hard to perpetuate and incite it. Just a couple nights ago....I wasn't outraged or even mad that Limbaugh was honored...but I was a bit sad and disappointed -- I think he truly was a founding father of the 'movement' to demonize anyone who opposes you....there's lots of others....but he was good not just at communicating it...but of igniting it in others.
I fully understand that it works....especially when it comes to two and four year elections with just two parties. But, think that it has to swing away from the current conditions of broad scale manipulative divisiveness. It works to harden up a segment of a base, but I don't think its sustainable if you're ever going to want/need more coalition than a fixed 40% will get you.