Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[CaptainHenreh]

simply don't care that this man is making this country more dangerous to live in for people like me.  It makes me sad that other Americans simply shrug their shoulders and continue supporting a man who is actively making America worse for a lot of us.  

So, I agree with you on everything yous aid. Here's the spot I'm in:


1: Trump is a fuckstick, I don't like him, I didn't vote for him, and I won't. Just so we're all clear.

2: The day after Trump was elected (remember the march for science?) I lost a good friend because when they said "Oh my god I'm half jewish half mexican and my wife is bisexual we're going to be thrown into a camp it's going to be HELL", I said "Well over my dead body you will, but also let's not be hysterical, no such thing is going to happen." And last time I checked, they're at their same jobs, in their same cozy apartment, definitely not in a camp. 

3: just because they AREN'T in a camp doesn't excuse violent rhetoric by the president or anyone else. 

Now I will agree that he political climate is extremely charged, in a way that we all haven't seen in our lifetimes. The skinheads are back, rebranded as the "alt right" and the Weathermen are basically back, now as Antifa, and it's all very strange and pretty scary so I won't deny any of that. 

I'd really love for Trump to disavow any hateful group that supports him, and maybe shut the fuck up on his weird, foreign-phobic rhetoric. But I also recognize that even if he did... nothing would be any different.


I mean, honestly, and I'm asking this in 100% good faith, what the fuck am I supposed to do? 

Yes, the economy is good. Yes, unemployment is down. Yes, violent crime is down. People are making money and spending money and FOR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN things have only gotten better in ways that actually matter. 

So how can I support economic and domestic policies that I like, when the GOP is just letting Trump do his thing while Cocaine Mitch Makes Shit Happen, and the DNC is literally trying as hard as they can to push stuff I absolutely won't support. I think a higher minimum wage will hurt more people than it helps. I think that blowing away 1 trillion dollars of bad debt without fixing the system that put it there will do only harm, not good. I think that America has done a great job correcting it's climate damage, and that going balls-first into tearing down old buildings because they aren't as efficient as they could be will be a colossal waste of resources. I believe that the correct response to people saying things I find disgusting is not to criminalize that speech but to counter it with speech of my own. I think that our immigration system needs a serious and long-overdue overhaul, but "let everybody in, yee haw!" is maybe the worst Idea I've ever heard in my whole life. 

So what the fuck am I supposed to do, then? Trump's gonna be president tomorrow, he's gonna be president the day after, and he's PROBABLY gonna be president in 2022, if the DNC keeps swinging themselves further and further left. So while I agree with everything you said, I also think that there's never, ever, been a better time to be alive and never, ever, been a better time to be an American, and that IF there's a better place to live on planet earth, it's probably got a smaller population than Texas.

So I'm honestly all ears. Other than "well constantly bitch about it", what am I supposed to do?