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 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.