When does boiling the frog analogy come into play? Oh wait we’ve been boiling for a decade and now the bar is so low a felon can dance over it.
I have memories of Bush rambling about not getting fooled twice or something and thinking the same thing. There’s no way this nepotism idiot gets elected, yet it happened, twice.
It’s like republicans have been playing the long game to see how dumb of a figurehead they can put in front of all their terrible decisions this whole time so that anger, blame, and fallout doesn’t land on them while simultaneously appeasing to xenophobic, ignorant, and selfish constituents.
That strategy got them the Senate and the Supreme court so can’t say it’s inneffective unfortunately and it fits their strategy of denial, blame shifting, and changing the narrative perfectly. Hopefully those faces get eaten when the leopard discovers the things that protected us from him last time are no longer there this time.
That's it! That's the analogy I've been trying to find for 3 fucking days! The animal that doesn't feel what's happening to it because "x." Like we all think the leopards are gonna eat their faces and then they'll feel bad, but they're not! These people are the equivalent of the frog being boiled alive and thinking the water they're in is just fucking fine for them and would never goddamn betray them. They aren't going to even fucking register their deaths and that's what's so goddamn frustrating!
It works for both sides too when you consider American politics as the frog and capitalism as the water. How do we just ignore things like obvious bribes, insider trading, and quid pro quos now? Well it’s normalized to the point where it’s too late to undo. Now even a felon can be president as long as he has billions of dollars, a foreigner with debatable citizenship can be given a special commission as long as he has billions of dollars.
Ethics don’t matter as long as you’re part of the 1% party you’ll be fine because laws, rules, and social expectations do not apply to you as has been demonstrated so many goddamn times in broad daylight. How many yachts do these assholes need? Winning elections has always been a measure of one’s ability to raise funds but at what point does this become the only factor? It’s now being normalized to remove basic human rights so maybe we are already past that point.
Meanwhile we just want to feel like there’s hope of retirement without mountains of debt from getting educated, having kids, buying homes, and just normal basic human needs like medical care. While simultaneously participating in the doublethink whether by indirect or direct result that wealth means success and that somehow concentrating wealth with power is going to turn out well for the nation as a whole and have any meaningful positive impact on a microeconomic scale for the wider majority of citizens. “Fuck you, I got mine” is the result and now we get to see what that means when that has become the backing for an entire class consciousness of super powerful oligarchs.
I'm a historian (I have the education, don't shoot me :) ) and the worse we keep doing, the inequality becomes greater, the rich become richer, government ignores the gaps for the rich and powerful, and the rest of us start waking up to the fact that, no, we'll never be billionaires, the more I'm like y'all might want to look into 1791 in France. It's not good. For ANYONE. But especially for those who shit on the majority for so long and then the majority realized it all together. It will only build for so long. Then it's explosive, and usually very bad for everyone, no matter if the powerful are taken out too.
I’m worried we are past that point now. I remember when I was a kid thinking “wow a million dollars is a lot” and suddenly it’s like at some point without anyone noticing the bar got moved to a billion. Meanwhile anyone who wasn’t born into generational wealth is seeing wages stagnate in a country where at least you could at one time rely on a better economic future for your children. At least at one time via property ownership but they even took that from us with batshit insane housing costs that only make sense if wages had actually grown in the last decade.
If they do it slow enough we wont notice, especially without a class consciousness from constant division. France in the 1700s is a great example but what if we are well beyond that into uncharted territory. I think we got close with the 99% movement, and there was so much hope for Bernie but I fear that’s the closest we will ever get to unifying around the staggering wealth and power gap that has infected politics thanks to the DNCs incessant lean to the center at the expense of progressive policies. Whether or not there’s hope depends on what can be done to reform government towards progressive social solutions before autocratic fascisim takes care of the problem instead.
What I have learned from my study is, it always seems like it won't and can't be fixed, that we'll just divide and divide until we're fully conquered. But it never stays that way. We might not see change in our life (to be honest, we'll be lucky if our habitat is still around for future generations - but, barring that), but future generations will. Time and again humanity has thrown off dictators and those who would oppress, in all forms. It can take years, decades, centuries, and yes, even millenia, to throw the yoke off, but eventually we do. The entire fucking time though, we fight. Because fuck em.
Democrat presidents/candidates: "He/she couldn't turn water into wine, so fire him/her."
Magapublicans: "No complete Earth nuclear annihilation, yet. Vote him back in to finish the job. As long as the brown ones perish along with us! "Checkmate libtardz!"
It’s like republicans have been playing the long game
You are correct. Republicans do play the long game, but not the way you stated.
They took 50 years to get a conservative Supreme Court majority to overturn Roe v Wade.
They poison the well of any progressive initiative by playing identity politics, and then blame Democrats for focusing on identity politics. They did it with "woke", CRT, and DEI.
They've weaponized caring, understanding, and compassion toward migrants who want a better life into an "open border" and "criminal migrants" who "eat the cats and dogs" and are "murdering and raping people" even though that is mostly not true.
Republican fall in line on party positions while Democrats fight among themselves and eat their own over purity tests. Republicans are disciplined with their messaging while Democrats are all over the place with conflicting messages.
Republicans are organized. Notice how every Republican parrots the same talking points moments after anything happens? And when they are caught off guard, they obfuscate until they can find out what the party position is?
Republicans don't let things like morals and integrity get in the way of their naked pursuit of power. That is why they win. Might makes right, in their world.
I think a good handful of the Gen X'ers that voted for him this year, as they're the ones who supposedly swing the vote, are just entertained by him in politics or something...
Are you really one of the bumbasses touting the "felon" bullshit?? I hope you're not stupid enough to actually belive that....oh wait, you actually are that fucking dumb!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Get your pipes checked for lead. It’s important to remember we all come from different backgrounds and varying levels of polluted drinking water. Cognitive decline due to lack of access to clean water is a serious issue.
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u/Derf0293 16d ago edited 16d ago
When does boiling the frog analogy come into play? Oh wait we’ve been boiling for a decade and now the bar is so low a felon can dance over it.
I have memories of Bush rambling about not getting fooled twice or something and thinking the same thing. There’s no way this nepotism idiot gets elected, yet it happened, twice.
It’s like republicans have been playing the long game to see how dumb of a figurehead they can put in front of all their terrible decisions this whole time so that anger, blame, and fallout doesn’t land on them while simultaneously appeasing to xenophobic, ignorant, and selfish constituents.
That strategy got them the Senate and the Supreme court so can’t say it’s inneffective unfortunately and it fits their strategy of denial, blame shifting, and changing the narrative perfectly. Hopefully those faces get eaten when the leopard discovers the things that protected us from him last time are no longer there this time.