• froh42@lemmy.world
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    Trump is only the symptom. I’ve seen the Republicans walk into this direction more and more every cycle. Bush, Dubya, ahh then I remember Palin who didn’t win with her Tea Party chums etc. - it culminated in Maga.

    And even if Trump turns dead by suffocation, having his head up Putin’ s ass tomorrow - he’s only the most visible figure of this theater, and there a few more who probably wait to be King when the King is dead.

    Nevertheless, what the post before said is important - the US was a soft power, being in the center of a huge balanced. network of allies. That network, the one the Magas shat on, is what guaranteed stability for all. (And yes, I’m aware politics always was a dirty business - but not in this way)

    There were probably a lot of shouting matches between politicians in the past, probably even between presidents. But fucking never on live TV, now none of they can’t move without losing face. What a sharade.

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      Perhaps the political posturing and theatrics are what’s needed to disappear from politics. But then again, it’s their bread and butter.

      I sort of hold hope that this meeting will be enough to mobilize those with the power to do something, but I also know it depends heavily on interests.

      Regardless of the end result, the pointless loss of life will continue to the selfishness of a few.