Comment by lux-lux-lux
7 days ago
We had nationwide riots for months back in 2020 over a police officer murdering a suspect, and that resulted in approximately zero actual political change. During the recent shutdown over the budget, we had one of the largest protests in the country’s history and massive shifts towards the opposition in elections followed by them immediately folding in exchange for essentially nothing.
The political class is very well insulated from the popular will in this country, and I fear we may be nearing the boiling point.
The politicians on the right are not well insulated -- they are very responsive to what their constituents' popular will is, to a fault. The left still hasn't figured out what the hell they're going to do next. Probably just continue the "we aren't Trump!" chanting and hope that's enough to win elections. Meanwhile their own constituents are just as frustrated with status quo as the right was.
> The left still hasn't figured out what the hell they're going to do next.
They're gonna keep taking money from their donors and attempt to focus on anything that doesn't hurt their donors.
Much like the Republicans were before Trump.
You guys really need to do something about Citizens United.
> they are very responsive to what their constituents' popular will
I don't think this is the case so much as their constituents are very responsive to the messaging from their politicians and media agencies. You can watch almost in real-time as Trump supporters 180 on things that they "really care about" like the Epstein files. Like the "peace" president. Like on inflation being a major issue. You can watch Trump do something outrageous, and the conservatives online act confused for a bit until they get their messaging and then they are all repeating the exact same excuses online.