But on the other hand, we had a pandemic where it seems like there was a point that even the normies started to figure out that money was just made up and pretty much the entire system is rigged… and then it all just immediately went back to status quo.
I understand the frustration, but I also think you really overestimate how much of a change the expressions of discontent were during the pandemic, compared to the baseline understanding of Americans just turned up in volume. And skepticism of the system does not necessarily include a willingness to see it overturned. See: the Soviet Union and Russia.
Shit, man, the biggest expressions of public discontent during COVID weren’t against the basic functioning of the economic system, but against inconveniences like masking or limited functioning of recreational institutions.
I think you kinda touched on this earlier when you said “the US electorate is puppeteered by corporations,” and I understood you were making a contrast between “electorate” and “politicians” there. But I think following up with “the biggest expressions of public discontent during COVID [were] against inconveniences like masking,” really proves how fucked up the American voter is. I remember it being said once that voters have the attention span of months not years, but I think it’s really gone down to weeks at best, and the selfishness has multiplied 10 fold since 2020. DOGE already seems like a bygone era to most people.
I think the defining topics of the 2026 midterm election aren’t going to be discovered until September at the earliest. DOGE, Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, Ballroom, Minneapolis, sorry to say it, are all hardly going to appear as footnotes.
I understand the frustration, but I also think you really overestimate how much of a change the expressions of discontent were during the pandemic, compared to the baseline understanding of Americans just turned up in volume. And skepticism of the system does not necessarily include a willingness to see it overturned. See: the Soviet Union and Russia.
Shit, man, the biggest expressions of public discontent during COVID weren’t against the basic functioning of the economic system, but against inconveniences like masking or limited functioning of recreational institutions.
I think you kinda touched on this earlier when you said “the US electorate is puppeteered by corporations,” and I understood you were making a contrast between “electorate” and “politicians” there. But I think following up with “the biggest expressions of public discontent during COVID [were] against inconveniences like masking,” really proves how fucked up the American voter is. I remember it being said once that voters have the attention span of months not years, but I think it’s really gone down to weeks at best, and the selfishness has multiplied 10 fold since 2020. DOGE already seems like a bygone era to most people.
I think the defining topics of the 2026 midterm election aren’t going to be discovered until September at the earliest. DOGE, Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, Ballroom, Minneapolis, sorry to say it, are all hardly going to appear as footnotes.