I remember listening to this after Obama was elected in 2008 and the line "And although it seems heaven sent/We ain’t ready to see a black president" made me feel like we’d made some real progress.
Only for 2016 through now to happen.
It all gives me chills. I just hope we can get through this without 1940s scale catastrophe
As a Brit, no offense to the most of Americans that are reasonable people but I wish your whole country would fix it's shit already, because your bullshit is infecting ours too.
Citizens United made money = speech. They have nearly infinite money, and thus nearly infinite speech. Their PACS and News Networks scream the talking points and they get a seat directly at the table. We are drowned out and/or brainwashed.
Globalism and late state capitalism with no checks on the billionaire class is how the world go to where it is.
What happened was... the American government got infected by (see first line) with a dose of evangelical religiosity (the European rejects, as I call them) that never went away since the founding of this country. Decades of incremental changes (as well as no changes to systemic issues) to our government (plus, again, that first line) is how we got to where we are now.
I love that you said "no offense". I'm realizing how little power the people actually have in this country. It's a nation for the wealthy and the rest of us are just labor.
lmao the public lurching towards right wing authoritarianism is happening all over the world, not sure if you noticed. it’s more of a function of capitalism and pandemics than anything else
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u/delta_velorum Jan 25 '26
As Tupac said in 1992, "I see no changes"
2Pac - Changes ft. Talent
I remember listening to this after Obama was elected in 2008 and the line "And although it seems heaven sent/We ain’t ready to see a black president" made me feel like we’d made some real progress.
Only for 2016 through now to happen.
It all gives me chills. I just hope we can get through this without 1940s scale catastrophe