Die Amerikaner wachen auf. Eine große Abrechnung erwartet uns

Ngl I appreciate hopium but all I’ve gotten since 2015 is copium

I fear that it is too late already

Trump and his cronies have backed up trucks to the US treasury and are trying hard to clear it out

At the same time the Heritage Foundation and the ChristoFascists are actively working to dismantle democracy and install themselves as perpetual overlords of the USA

While all this is going the USA is falling deeper into dept faster than it ever has before

I don’t know about that…

I think the persistence of conservatism is one of the most remarkable phenomenons of my lifetime, and I don’t know if even Trump is enough to shake it off… I hope Robert Reich is correct, but we’ll see…

The remarkable thing about it is conservatism fails upwards. They always manage to convince people (at least just enough of them) that their failures are not really failures. And that next time, the promised conservative utopia will result from their perfect conservative policies. They have armies of paid liars on their side, of course… that helps. But the right has simply been more succesful in telling a compelling story: You work hard You keep the fruit of your labor. That is responsibility. Those sound like solid values.

Maybe it’s because the left is too meek…. not good enough at challenging it…. are you saying poor people don’t work hard? That is ridiculous; they are generally the most hard-working people of all…. but that doesn’t tell the kind of pleasant, neatly pre-parckaged story that conservatism tells. The American dream is ultimately a dream of excess, but people are really attached to it. And fast cars and get rich schemes through crypto, might be stupid, but it gets the adrenaline pumping. The left is seen as the evil scrooge that wants to take it away from them. And it’s not just rich people… poor people will vote conservatives as long as conservatism allows them to dream those dreams…. even if they are about as realistic as the idea of teaching a pigeon chess.

Conservatism is a scam, of course. But it’s an efficiently, tirelessly marketed scam, that reaches deep into people’s sense of identity. They are simply good at creating mythology. Progressives sound meek and boring besides that. I don’t mean to sound defeatist… just looking realistically at the cultural behemoth that we’re up against.

Will one disastrous presidency really finally be enough to defeat that whole mentality? In my experience, it works short term. When they are feeling the pain, right now… but the minute it lifts off, the dreams of excess start taking over again.

Is “waking up” the same as “being woke”? Because if so then this is a really awkward turn of phrase.

I’ve read this exact headline multiple times before

2026 is gonna be a fucking nightmare.

I’ll believe it when there’s a new governmental structure in this country.

Until then, no. Americans haven’t woken up to shit. They will eventually, cause Bread and Circuses ain’t run out yet, but when they do…

Well, *then* they’ll wake up. But I doubt it will get to that point. I’m in the same boat.

I say this knowing I won’t start the revolution. I won’t be the big name remembered as the man who saved America. No shit. I’m just comfortable enough to not starve.

If that goes away for myself and many others? That will change.

This would make a lot of sense. Most major change (for better and for worse) happens after catastrophe- FDR got his New Deal due to the Depression, and Bush got his military security state after 9/11.

In other words, we’ve got a once in a generation chance to actually systemically change things here. Let’s not waste it on just rebuilding what we had before. Keep that in mind when you cast your vote in the 2028 primaries.

Some of us have been fighting this bullshit since Reagan. Too much of the US is uneducated and unwilling to turn off Fox News.

Ill only believe if Bondi, Hegseth, Noem and others are prosecuted in 2029.

Read the same nonsense after Biden won and started fixing things and then Trump won again.

The damage is done. I will never welcome those who supported the rise of this reich in my circles. Why should I when I’m one of the brown people they voted to have hunted down? I don’t buy this awakening for one millisecond.

Are Americans waking up or are they finally experiencing the consequences of their vote that they thought would only apply to others?

While I appreciate the effort I feel that the article mostly draws wrong conclusions – Trump is not nightmare because of free trade or deregulation – he is nightmare because of he acts as if there are no rules other than the rule of the jungle where strong eat the weakest

I don’t think its awakened anything that will last though most of these people will rally around Vance or some other former conservative once they segue from knob polishing to pushing all the blame on Trump.

I do believe one of the reasons why they’re appeasing him so much is also to set him up as the fall guy who terrorized his cabinet and pull a MTG by claiming they were naive.

But who knows maybe I’m wrong.

As someone who’s seen through Trump since 2016 it’s really been a painful decade to watch all of his happen and get worse along the way. I really can’t defend the Democrat side either because that is a big part of why we are here today. Seeing people sober up to the reality of Trump and all this class consciousness is great and all, but do we really need to cause all this damage for so long before meaningful positive changes? It seriously feels like we are so many years behind with the emboldenening of racism under Trump and the way this economy serves just a very few

I’ll believe it when I see it. First of all, I expect massive election fraud from a GOP desperate to stay in power, and a bunch of evil tech billionaires who realize that it’s even cheaper to just rig an election than it is to buy one. Then, even if we really do get these shit-heels out of office, this is America, so I fully expect the democrats to ratfuck and ensure that we have the worst possible corporate centrists as our candidates who will just shuffle papers around and do nothing if they take office. Trump should already be rotting in prison, but the Biden administration was too cowardly to apply the fucking law. I see no reason to believe these idiots will do it right this time around, especially when most establishment democrats have learned the exact wrong lesson from 2024 and have taken it as a signal to move farther right. I swear to god, none of them look at the world outside the US, because they’re making the exact same idiot moves the Labour government is making in the UK in real time. If only we had politicians with the guts to do what Brazil has done to their fascist traitors.

Only if the American people keep at it, don’t forget, hold accountability, and don’t forgive so easily.

The journey for America to join the rest of the developed world will be a long one with many obstacles in the way.

We cannot „go back to the way things were“, justice has to be served in full and the people cannot rest until that happens.

Don’t just relax because an article says so. Go out and vote. Get your undecided voting friends and family out to vote.