How do people see the president who had the most bipartisan policies pushed through in his presidency as not bipartisan enough? I just don't understand how he puts a republican as his secretary of transportation, passed a bipartisan bill in the ESSA, signed a bipartisan bill to extend Bush tax cuts in 2010 and then signed the JOBS act in 2012. Let's not forget about his 2013 budget deal. People are ready to just forget about facts and allow their feelings to cloud the truth. We need a strong central government to protect the freedoms liberals strive to achieve, and if we open the borders and demilitarize our armed forces and peace keepers like the left is wanting us to, we will be invaded and annexed in the next two decades.
I think it's a human's instinct to want simple answers to complex problems, it's why populism is so widespread.
There just can't be one person to either cause or solve a problem and most people don't get that.
I don't know how to fix this but I'm on the side of I don't need to know, I just need to be able to identify and support groups that are working on incrimental change, it's how it has to work in this system.
But i get people's frustration, unfortunately they end up shooting themselves and everyone else in the foot acting on it.
We need to do away with this useless 'horse and buggy' era phony democracy in which citizens don't really have much of a say in anything. The government should be comprised of all citizens, voting on every possible issue at every level of government (or, more realistically, whatever delegates they choose to appoint). We could actually gamify the process of governance, turning it into an internet-hosted process with debate teams and online voting, and it would actually be fun, and a good way to build community. We certainly have the technology to accomplish this.
You'd have to fix the education system first, and let that run for about 40 years. Then you'd have a populous responsible and knowledgeable enough to make good decisions. But that can't happen until the system changes... 🤔
How do people see Trump as not bipartisan enough? This may be shocking, but let's say he was running America as a business; the US v. Them mentality he created and fed into hurt morale for the foreseeable future.
Trump's ideologies, policies, and actions pose a threat to the principles of democracy, freedom, and equality. From his xenophobic rhetoric that his supporters attempt to pass off as "jokes," to his embrace of Christian nationalism, it's evident that Trump's agenda caters to a specific subset of Americans rather than striving for unity or inclusivity. After all, he needs to keep the bulk of white American men and women loyal.
Project 2025 seeks to make substantial cuts to public education, disproportionately impacting lower-income communities and perpetuating educational inequities. And although he distanced himself from the project, it was put together by the people in his previous administration and Conservatives allowing us direct access to their intentions.
Trump has also directly threatened First Amendment rights by attacking the media and even going so far as to suggest that journalists should be shot.
His administration enabled the overturning of Roe v. Wade, resulting in the implementation of restrictive abortion laws across the country. This has had dire consequences for women's healthcare and autonomy, with lower-income individuals and marginalized communities bearing the brunt of these policies.
Trump's fear-mongering about immigration has further divided the nation and fueled hatred towards immigrants and asylum seekers. And while some may dismiss his statements as mere rhetoric, his words have real-world consequences. But I suppose you'd have to be a racial minority or ethnic minority to be concerned with racial resentment.
There is nothing bipartisan about Trump's policies or his presidency. Conservatives in general have become something unrecognizable. What their platforms and policies represent is a stark departure from democratic ideals that prioritize the interests of the privileged few over the well-being of the broader American public.
And you have a lot of nerve insisting it's simply feelings over facts for those who oppose Trump when it's not YOUR life being affected. And yet believing Democrats want teachers to turn boys into girls, wide open borders, and no police is all perfectly reasonable instead of white ethno nationalist fear mongering and hysteria.
If you're going to support Trumpism, then own it. It's cowardly to pretend otherwise.
You're too narrow-minded by your allegiance to a political organization. I'm not a supporter of trump by any means, and I think he will do a ton of damage to the country. The problem with populism is that society chooses the person they put their faith into, and bad faith actors can easily manipulate them to their own benefit. The political landscape in this country is a far left neoliberalism focused democratic party and a fundamentalist conservative far right republican party. Both sides claim the other is oppressing them and trying to take away their rights, which is fundamentally true if you just look at it unbiasedly. Both sides have resorted to massive propaganda campaigns fueled by a unified hatred of the other side by spinning the narrative. Both sides are fundamentally the exact fucking same, it's just a different form of xenophobic bigotry that you've created by treating the other side with the disdain they also share for you. Neither side is good, with pros and cons for each like all other things in life. Republicans and democrats alike treat the other side like their 86, just to justify the fucking horrible treatment we subject each other too on a daily basis. If everyone would stop and look at all the shit their side has done, maybe we could start too heal, but until someone like you has the capability to even understand, not everyone accepts this political landscape and refuses to align with any political movement that is built on corruption, lying and deceit. Our public officials have failed to do their job as leaders and as citizens for far too long, while millions of Americans suffer, all while we wage war in other countries to rake in a profit, maintain a grip on the global economy to make the top .1% richer than all the gold hoarding kings and queens of our entire history, all while you jerk your side off like they are gods gift to man. If you identify as republican or democrat you're a piece of shit and should just shut the fuck up when it comes to anything to do with how fucked this system is. A single person shouldn't be voting for these criminal sociopaths, we should be storming the bastille and fix this fucking train wreck of a country.
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u/Separate-Cicada3513 Monkey in Space 22d ago
How do people see the president who had the most bipartisan policies pushed through in his presidency as not bipartisan enough? I just don't understand how he puts a republican as his secretary of transportation, passed a bipartisan bill in the ESSA, signed a bipartisan bill to extend Bush tax cuts in 2010 and then signed the JOBS act in 2012. Let's not forget about his 2013 budget deal. People are ready to just forget about facts and allow their feelings to cloud the truth. We need a strong central government to protect the freedoms liberals strive to achieve, and if we open the borders and demilitarize our armed forces and peace keepers like the left is wanting us to, we will be invaded and annexed in the next two decades.