What if it doesn’t happen

[u/megettingkilled]

We have to consider the possibility…

[u/sleepytipi]

I have a dear friend who is, and trust me she would love to be the one.

It's interesting. There's never been a more universally hated figure in the US and despite that, there he is. Still shitting his pants on capital hill. Hated by every living person and it doesn't seem to make a damn bit of difference. Best I can hope for is that it never happens again. And if it does, please Gods let it be the end of this mess. It still feels like we're stuck in a chapter that should've ended over a 100 years ago.

[u/eventualist → u/sleepytipi]

The historians are really gonna look back and have a laugh and wonder how a country that strive to discombobulate and dismantle our education and ends up as a bunch of stupid pokes. They're gonna wonder why did they choose this?

Wait... we're already documenting it all 🤔

[u/IrascibleOcelot → u/eventualist]

Historians will look back and wonder how this happened. They’ll write books, create new avenues of investigation, build entire treatises on what went wrong. Psychologists will do the same. Monuments will be built that say “never again.” They’ll congratulate themselves on evolving to being more enlightened than those poor, dumb schmucks we were. And in another 80 to 100 years, they’ll watch in disbelief as it all starts over again, and they’ll be powerless to stop it.

And then they’ll say “oh.”

[u/KriegConscript → u/IrascibleOcelot]

maybe popular historians who get published in op-eds will be confused, since they're stupid. in actual academic history where the stuff is written and analyzed, everyone is 100% tired 100% of the time. they have never wondered why any of this is happening

[u/commosion → u/IrascibleOcelot]

Polybius anacyclosis :(

[u/Erainor → u/sleepytipi]

The problem is he is still supported by 1/3 of the country with another 1/3 not voting.

[u/sleepytipi → u/Erainor]

It's also a really big problem that the 1/3rd who doesn't participate feels as though they have no representation whatsoever.

And taxation without representation has a bit of history in the US.

[u/Lucifang → u/sleepytipi]

By law we have to vote in Australia and it doesn’t make much difference - people who don’t care will vote for whoever their parents do, or draw a penis on the form, or not show up at all and risk a fine.

The challenge is getting people to CARE.

[u/Murakami_Ysera → u/Erainor]

The problem is our elected officials are all bought and paid for by the same people and it's just kabuki theatre at this point.

They all need to be unemployed.

[u/silence-glaive1 → u/sleepytipi]

I don’t get it either. But he’s not universally hated. His cult followers would die for him (and they pretty much are). I’ve got a neighbor who has a shrine to him in his garage.

[u/sleepytipi → u/silence-glaive1]

That's sickening. Sometimes I wonder if those people aren't some sort of soulless NPC and that's not a healthy mindset to have.

[u/ExerciseSad3082 → u/sleepytipi]

Hated by every living person? No wonder people can't take people like you seriously with such statements

[u/sleepytipi → u/ExerciseSad3082]

[u/Temporary_Abroad_211 → u/ExerciseSad3082]

Yeah, you're right. We should include the dead.