SocOfAutism wrote:
That's the thing- he's not even trying to be accurate. Most people also don't have a clue, so they just slap their knee and are like, "Ain't that the truth!" The other ones are speaking carefully because they don't want to get caught in something, so it makes them appear untrustworthy. MORE untrustworthy than a boldface liar!
All the country's problems could be sorted out in a couple of years if anyone tried. But the things that are problems to us regular people are not problems to the few powerful people up on top, so there's no point in them solving them. It's ridiculous for us to expect them to really be working on them.
This is it in a nutshell.
Only, the people up top not only don't care about the things that are problems down here on the ground. I'm in the enviable position of being able to choose to ignore things like equal treatment under the law for LGBTQ, or welfare reform, or unemployment (for now), or entitlement funding (for now), or the poverty those things affect (for now, since my current relationship to the local food pantry is that of donor rather than client). I can, personally, afford to ignore pretty much everything other than climate change and health care (and I can afford to ignore those more than a lot of people). The people up top are in an entirely different ball game. They benefit from the things that burden the common man (prison-industrial complex, anyone??), so there's actually an incentive to encourage the situation to get worse and worse.
And everyday folks either won't or can't (a lot of the time nowadays it's can't afford to) make the changes that would solve the problems.
Trump is the loudest-braying jackass in the race, but no matter who wins, we're screwed.
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