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  • Even after trumpism is defeated, there’s a lot of trust for the US people to rebuild with their allies.

    If the people are so willing to vote in dictator idiot maniacs, then how can other countries trust those same people to not do it again?

    It’s the same for European countries at the moment as well. The UK is fairly less trusted right now because they vote idiots like Farage, Hungary is snubbed because Orban is a Russian колбаса sucker - so on and so on.

    Those generations that vote these people in will still live a few more decades and as such any goodwill towards them is diminished.













  • I was wondering why dem presidents aren’t doing the same thing.

    The only reason I could come up with is that dem voters, averagely, seem to have some sort of standard. They do advocate for improving fellow citizen’s lives. They do think their president should be held accountable (on the most part, but there’s definitely more accountability that could be put on dem presidents too).

    Jump to the right wing republican voters. They’re either blindly following trump (they see him as some sort of role model), or they just think trump will allow them more of the freedoms they want (guns for example) and don’t really care about their society as a whole. I also strongly suspect there are right wing groups that believe Trump will screw everything up, put the country in turmoil, and allow them to seize some small control of their own.



  • The trade bloc point is tricky though.

    Any rational brain can see that the benefits of being in the EU massively outweigh the drawbacks.

    At the same time, we can see from our voting history that a huge chunk of us do not think rationally when it comes to politics. We’re all guilty of it. But some of us at a minimum can reflect on our knee jerk reaction and allow our calmer heads to prevail.

    Unfortunately, it seems many of us have a knee jerk reaction that is never re-evaluated until we’re faced with the hardship it causes.

    I feel like, because of the above, there’s still a small appetite for rejoining the bloc. Those who voted to leave and are being hit hard by leaving have no way to say we should rejoin whilst saving face.

    Labour haven’t been elected to rejoin the EU, and it’s likely that any longstanding improvement to our country they can make will take more than one term. If they start looking at rejoining the reactive right will ensure they don’t get that second term and we’ll be stuck back where we were with the Tories.