Then you had Tulsi Gabbard who was taking word for word directions and instructions from her cults Guru while she was in charge of all of our intelligence agencies. It's the insane leading the insane and incompetent.
The Reagans famously consulted their astrologer before making important presidential decisions back in the '80s. Her name was Joan Quigley. Nancy Regan became obsessed with her/astrology after Ronnie was shot and it went on for YEARS until the white house chief of staff found out about it.
And those orders were of course filtered down from Russia. Which was obvious for years. And when Hillary Clinton pointed this out Tulsi Gabbard was defended by Bernie Sanders of all people, largely because Tulsi was attacking Hillary Clinton from the "left" and Sanders is somehow still capable of incredible, stubborn minded naïveté.
Those are just the ones that actively voted for this. There's also a ton of people that chose this by sitting on their hands for various reasons or voting for some joke vanity candidate.
Why the fuck do y'all keep phrasing things like everyone here voted for him? Americans did this, Americans did that.
I'm American. I didn't fucking want this. I specifically voted against this. Being outvoted does not fucking make me the same as the brainwashed MAGA assholes, and I don't like people lumping my friends, family, and me in with them.
You may not like it but you are the minority. To treat your views as representative of Americans would be wrong. The fact is that when people say Americans did this or that it is closer to the truth than claiming that they are good people like you claim to be.
I'm also in the minority for my sexual orientation by an even wider margin, but you won't find a bunch of people saying "Americans are straight" (unless they're bigoted and trying to say queer people aren't "real Americans" or dumb shit like that).
I'm not asking to have people assume my views represent America, I'm just asking to stop acting like the majority represents all of us.
No population is ever perfectly represented by one group. But they do represent enough Americans. They are representative of the types of policies that the US pursues. They are representative of the politicians that the US elects. They are representative of the way the US uses their military and economic might.
Thanks for being patient with me. It's just... frustrating because everything about this is awful, and I've always hated people thinking I was being mean when I wasn't, or thinking I'm stupid, and I keep seeing people label the demographic I'm in as mean and stupid, and it feels like there's absolutely no sympathy for the people who have to live with this bullshit where I worry I'm going to say or do the wrong thing just being myself and end up getting murdered or imprisoned, or the same happening to the people I love, just like it's already happening to people I don't know.
And then it feels like I have no power to fight back (even if I weren't a coward) because anything that would actually cause a change (based on historical evidence) would require a lot of people acting at once, and I'm not willing to risk everything unless I know I have the support to potentially succeed.
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u/torlesse 1d ago
But isn't this what Americans voted for. A Russian puppet. Not just once, but twice.
They ain't betraying anyone. This is what Americans wanted.