The shine hasn’t worn off a bit. He’s polling pretty much exactly where he’s been throughout this presidential run; in the 44-46% support.
Almost half the country still supports him, and loves him, tariffs, destroying the constitution, and all.
It’s performative nonsense in the hopes we all back down and stay nice and peaceful, thinking that the rest of the US will just stop supporting him. This is just propaganda aimed at the left.
Um, no?
He’s still staying firmly in the 44-46% range, where he’s been since he was elected. The needle movements have been so small there’s a good chance they’re just rounding errors.
Biden was at 33% at one point. Harry Truman managed to hit 22%. Nixon was at 23% when he left office.
All this ‘Trump’s ratings went down half a point! The honeymoon is over! He’s the worst president ever!’ is absolute bullshit, and I’m tired of it. It’s designed to make us on the left feel like people agree with us. Probably so we’ll complacently wait for everyone to agree to help us get him out of office.
Almost half the country is still thrilled with what Trump is doing. We are charging headlong into fascism with a good chunk of the country cheering it on. And those cheering masses are not going to ‘wake up’ and change our minds about it.
Let me introduce you to a little concept called martial law…
But who decides what are ‘pedagogically approved methods’? Keeping an approval body independent of government would be nigh-impossible, and even in well-intentioned groups the best ideas of how to care for a child change.
After all, it wasn’t so long ago that ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’ was thought to be the best method; in many places, it still is. In Nazi Germany the approved method was to ignore your baby. Let them cry, force them into a schedule, deny them human contact (holding and cuddling were very frowned upon).
Mothers eager to do their best for their country followed those rules to a T, believing their government that claimed it was for the best. And the disastrous results are still being felt almost a century later.
What we need really is to all be taught critical thinking skills (hmm, denying contact to the child of a social species might be a bad idea hmmm…) and how to apply them across all parts of life, I think.
It’s because we have had laws like that in the past… and (big surprise) they were used, unilaterally, to sterilize minorities, lawbreakers, and the disabled. (Raise your hand if you’re surprised.)
And I don’t mean, like, in Victorian England either. Sweden stopped their eugenics in 2013. The US would often sterilize women criminals in prisons, deeming them ‘unfit’.
So it’s really more of a case of ‘we can’t have nice things’ when people object to it.
The biggest argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Or something like that.
Guess he’s part of a group galvanizing Christians to boycott companies that cut DEI.
I’m not a big fan of religions, especially the Abrahamic ones, but this group is doing good work.
And yet his approval rating is holding steady.
Losing your job to own the libs, I guess
I dunno, Oregon’s reps are pretty old and trying to fight the good fight.
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.
Sir Terry Pratchett hitting the nail on the head. This kind of mentality will be the death of us all, I fear.
True wisdom is understanding how much you don’t know! And to a certain extent what you say is true.
But, as Bill Watterson once said, ‘most ignorance is willful’. Quite a lot of people don’t want to look into things more than surface level, because it’s too much work, and too scary to step outside of their comfort zones.
And, y’know, I’d be kind of fine with that? Except their ignorance is actively hurting people.
And then, sadly, there’s a lot of people who are just bullies, and use their ignorance to prop up their fragile egos. A friend of mine has been disowned by her family because she’s trans. They refuse to speak to her, and have been cheering on Trump’s deportations and treatment of trans folks.
What do you even do with people like that?
Isn’t that just basically My Time in Portia?
We’re aware you all are having a housing crisis. It wouldn’t be fair to dump a lot more of that issue on you.
Although I would certainly love to move up there if I had a choice.
Actually, they are quite consistent; it’s just that one, they never say outright what it is, instead always talking around their ideas; because, two, we find it absolutely reprehensible (and they know it).
But it is quite simple:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
-Wilhoit’s Law
Look at it through that lens, and you’ll see that they have never shifted their position. Their whole lives revolve around making this law a reality, and making sure they are in the in-group.
Speaking as an Oregonian: they won’t. Trust me.
It’s… really not? You might want to go brush up on your history.
You know, in the future, it might not be a bad idea to learn a little bit about something before you comment on it. Just saying.
Let me guess. American public school?
Or did you just sleep though math class?
Well, wood is a good option if the power goes out somehow.
It should also be pointed out that a wood-burning stove may be a cheaper option to heat the house for poorer people.