Dear Americans, how do you go back to normal after such an election campaign? : asklemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ignore it all in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Was America ever "normal"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

According to my American gf: being a decent human being

[+] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Most my friends are republicans so we shit talk a lot back and forth. After the election we will just shit talk about something else. Yes we are over 40 and still act like teenagers.

My main concern right now is that my two oldest kids are asking me why I’m voting for Harris lol.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago

Once you block the unholy trifecta of tankie-subs, suddenly the world isn't so shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Help them to understand what happened, why it happened, and what will happen. After 2016, I had to explain to my lib family members that no, black people didn't cause Hillary to lose, the dems gave us trump by failing to even promise to improve people's material conditions, and to my conservative acquaintances "no, trump is not draining the swamp, he is a billionaire, he IS the swamp."

In 2020, it was "no, Biden isn't going to stop covid, empty the migrant camps, or abolish the police, he's going to continue 95% of Trump's policies, we've seen this all before under Clinton and Obama."

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Idk maybe I'm getting older, but I've been through enough elections in my life to step back and see that this happens every time. The Internet turns to shit and everyone flings shit for a few days and then it's back to normal.

I feel like I'm past my prime in caring as much this year. My battles were fought in the past and now I'm disinterested in politics because I've been disappointed every time.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago

Nothing to get back to when you don't pay attention in the first place

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I curse and shout whenever I see a political ad. I cut relations with all Trump supporters back in 2016 and now I am cutting off all Harris supporters.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago

It is like any other election for me. I don't want either of them. I'm guaranteed to be disappointed.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

Don't assume that the majority of people who vote for Trump, are MAGA.

Many, if not most, are the same as many Biden/Harris voters in that they hate both candidates, and are voting for who they view as the lesser of two evils.

As I'm a Lemmy user, you can safely assume I'm not one of them, but the point stands.

But, if you're talking about people who have gone full on MAGA insanity, well they probably got there somewhere between 2016 and 2020, so there's not a a ton of new converts to deal with.

And even with them, they're the minority of a minority.

Of course, if someone is of the opinion that anyone who votes for Trump, no matter the reason, must be excised from their life, well that's their choice, but I kind of pity them.

Trump is not Hitler. He's too lazy and stupid to be Hitler. Let's not pretend that voting for Trump is the same as supporting Hitler, it's not.

He's a piece of shit authoritarian, but on the scale of American Presidents, the areas where he deviates the most from the norm, is how stupid and crass his corruption and racism is, not that he was corrupt and racist.

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I still can't look you people (Americans) in the face from the last dozen horrible things you've collectively done.

How can you ever let your guard down around this maniac society, let alone go back to normal?

Living in the interior of the stolen lands, what normal do you even think there is to offer? Endless towns build on nothing but walmarts and jails, having displaced any culture of value generations ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Speaking as an American, I hate how our government runs, there are tons of issues with it, and I do what I can't to help fix it. Like the majority of us are not happy, but we have not collectively done these things, most of the terrible things that have happened in America are the machinations of a wealthy elite who have been able to shape voting districts and policy thanks to continually laxing regulations and unfettered capitalism.

I was just born here, I didn't make this place. This place isn't what I want it to be. Just line any other country, we are all just people trying to live and get something out of life. With the way the education system is here most people don't even realize how ass backwards things are because "that's how it's always been" for them. It's upsetting. But it doesn't make them bad people, just naive usually. This is why things like intersectionality and critical race theory are so important and this is why the far right in this country is pushing against them. The issues in America boil down to race and class based inequality, intentional defunding of public programs, and then miseducation of the populous on these issues and how they actually affect everyone. I promise you those of us who understand all this are doing everything we can do reverse course. Personally everything happening here weighs on me heavily and I often forget to enjoy what's right in front of me because the big picture is so scary. It's stressful as fuck.

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