• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    mine isn’t a brain fog but COVID and a trump presidency made me not trust humans at all.

    i no longer trust friends, family, neighbors, governments, leaders, police, doctors, businesses. none of them maintained trust during the Trump presidency and the pandemic.

    but i still vote straight ticket democrat. because their platform doesn’t include NAZI-ism

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      5 months ago

      I think a big part of this might be the Democrats not wanting to take the populist pro-worker anti-rich stances due to campaign donations.

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        5 months ago

        Because populism is always dangerous. If Democrats go all in on populism, I will stop voting. I am not going to play this game where we just volley lies back and forth like a tennis ball until someone trips and the other person scores a point.

        I will always support sober technocracy. If American politics actually turns into populist tennis then all is lost.

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          5 months ago

          Populism isn’t necessarily bad, business antitrust regulations and the 8 hour workday were historically populist policies. Dems shouldn’t go all out on populism, but they should do something to become popular. Elections are a popularity contest after all.