• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yup.

    This is just the beginning. Trump opened doors that are permanently open now. Other bad actors will walk through them. They know now, definitively, that Americans are largely stupid and that pretty basic propaganda works on them. And our government is configured in such a shitty way that any real change requires such a large majority in Congress that we’re not going to fix all the things necessary to prevent this all from happening again.

    I hope you’re ready for permanent decline, because that’s the future for America, short of a revolution that completely rewrites our laws regarding politics. And it’ll be written in a shit ton of blood.

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      5 hours ago

      “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

      — Abraham Lincoln

      “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”

      — George W. Bush

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        3 hours ago

        Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, well… Can’t get fooled again.

        • Also George W. Bush