Why does politics in the United States feels like a national scale theater? I am not using the word “theater” to mock america’s political system, its “theater” in its literal absolute sense. Feels fake and programmed, does not feel natural, 99% politicians feels like actors/pretenders playing good vs bad role. Even the timing is suspicious.
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WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
Now tell me again I’m crazy when I say EVERYONE is in on it, even the alleged resistance. They are all just pro’s farming us NPC’s. The way Trump is sucking off Mamdami right now…sorry, but he is fake too, no doubt.
There are no good guys left.
YgestWefsid@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
ronl2k@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Your anonymous country works exactly the same way. That’s why you didn’t mention it.
YgestWefsid@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
You are right actually.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Because it is. Politics in all democracies is that way, the US is just letting the mask slip a little.
It’s always been ruling class vs. the rest of us. Who the ruling class are changes and the means of oppression changes but the structure of rulers oppressing those beneath them has been constant all the way back to neolithic humans.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I figured it would be about a month after Mamdani was actually mayor before leftists would turn on him. But maybe I underestimated the need of leftists to be against anyone with power that’s sympathetic towards them?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Dude, after the 1000th fucking time being disappointed and betrayed, I am not buying anything. There’s no such thing as honest politicians, we should just focus on economically undermining ALL power. Humans should not have any control over each other.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Dude, we gotta live in a society and we have to have a government. It seems it doesn’t matter what the government does (Mandani isn’t even mayor yet) you just want to be a rebel without a clue. You’ve probably lived a life of privilege so you don’t need to worry about real world problems.
Whatever, you do you. But for us peasants that actually need a government, Mandani isn’t in the wrong for not burning everything down.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
I have seen practicaly every politician turn out to be bought out, child.
My life of privilege: staring at a wall and crying, being told my ideas are stupid and to shut up, standing in the cold while I wait to be institutionalized for bullshit reasons, treated for something I didn’t have. Practicaly no healthcare (can’t diagnose a chronic cough all my life, gave a generic asthma diagnosis at 29 years of age), I never wanted to ask parents for anything, because I knew they were broke, and got a neurological issue that’s ruining your life? Nah, bad character. People here don’t have neurological (or mental) issues.
Literally everything I have with me, including this phone, I had to buy from a blue colar job I’m doing.
I’m privileged to do what? Get exploited until the day I die? Watch my family succumb slowly? Pay for private healthcare that does nothing for me? (tried that too).
All humans are predators.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 15 hours ago
we have to have a government
Citation needed. I completely disagree.
This reminds me of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We don’t need to pick someone to “be in charge” to get shit done.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yes there are. They just don’t make it through the gauntlet to reach power since they don’t desire it to begin with.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
“Its one big club and you ain’t in it”
I often wonder if this kind of thing is like a rite of passage or something. Like mutually assured destruction for everyone, ensuring that all who make it to the ruling class truly are ride or die. One massive gang.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Gaining power often means loosening of morals and ethics, removing the constraints on behaviors in order to be capable of doing what is effective. All these people are in a club where they’re all criminals because that’s how power works.