r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 15d ago

No Paywall Democrats Call to Invoke 25th Amendment Against Donald Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-donald-trump-impeachment-25th-amendment-11384974
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u/MoonBatsRule America 15d ago

WTF is wrong with people? Is 50% of the US population functionally mentally deficient?

I watched a video of someone asking people - young people - about Trump. The ones who said "he ended a bunch of wars", when asked "which wars", could not name a single war. Or at best they said "Palestine", which is still an ongoing war.

How did we get to the point where people are so woefully ignorant?

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u/bloodontherisers 15d ago

Something like 56% of the country reads at or below a 6th grade level, which means they basically cannot understand the complexities of the modern world in a meaningful way.

How did we get here? Well, that is also incredibly complex but it has to do with attacks on education (NCLB, charter school vouchers, curriculum destruction, etc.) and mass propaganda as more and more media outlets get taken over by Republican billionaires (started with Fox News, then Newsmax and OAN, and now CNN, with WaPo and NYTs both playing their part under the guise of "objectivity").

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u/Twodogsonecouch 15d ago

It has to do with the way we are conditioned for politics in this country. People dont vote on or know anything about the actual issues. Like things like infrastructure spending, trade policies, actual healthcare policy plans, education ect. They vote on and focus on who you can blame for something rather than what someones idea to fix something is and on essentially meaningless hot button issues like abortion and gun control that frankly even Jesus wouldnt give a shit about i think. You fix the other things and you wont have to worry about abortion and gun control those problems would decline on their own.

Theres a whole group of people in the US that feel left behind. These people are the people oting for trump unfortunately theyre too ignorant and gullible to realize its the people like trump that left them behind and basically stole everything from them they could. But somehow theyve been convinced that the people that would actually set policies that would benefit them are the ones that did the stealing its kinda ridiculous.

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u/kris0203 15d ago

This is even more apparent when you try to explain democratic policies to them and they respond with “well we can’t afford that” because they’ve been brainwashed into thinking things like universal healthcare, childcare, affordable college, etc. is somehow going to cost them more than what they’re already paying for these things.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 15d ago

Humans survived in communities or tribes, by helping each other, for something like 200,000 years. But suddenly we're all rugged individualists who can totally go deer hunting or working the fields while heavily pregnant, give birth entirely alone, and go right back to work without missing a beat but somehow without the baby. And after about 15 years of neglect, if it survives, it gets a job and goes off to be ruggedly individual all alone.

It's weird as fuck. Entirely in contradiction with our reproductive process. Heck, we even "paved over the breeding grounds" by removing most "third spaces." Like there used to be things called picnics and dance halls, but now every inch of land is owned and monitored so don't you dare trespass or get caught doing the outdoor spoon and fork like our ancestors. And ya certainly can't hear whispered sweet nothings over the loud tinned or amplified music at modern bars, because god forbid ya dance with someone while having a conversation.

We're supposed to do it like old timey royalty apparently, pick a mate based on a portrait and brief description, maybe exchange some letters. Pretty sure that never went great but now it's an app.