Summary
The second Trump administration could dismantle key government agencies aiding working people, particularly the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Created after the 2008 financial crisis, the CFPB has secured major consumer wins under Biden-appointed director Rohit Chopra, such as capping overdraft fees and banning excessive credit card late fees.
Trump previously weakened the agency, and his return could prioritize corporate interests.
Progressives are urged to defend the CFPB’s achievements and use its success as a rallying point in future political campaigns.
Enjoy the schadenfreude of the leopards eating their faces. But at some point you’ll either have to forgive them once they realise they’ve been hoodwinked by psychological warfare waged on the news and social media by individuals and organisations with geopolitical and corporate greed aims in mind, then rebuild your public institutions together and educate them to throw off these infective and destructive ideas and dogma.
Or shoot them in a gruelling civil war, and beat them so resoundingly that their ideology remains burnt and buried with them and Sherman himself would say “fucking hell”.
Hope and strive for the first, but prepare for and pray the second doesn’t become the only way.
Oh sure, I’ve said plenty of times that there has to be a path to redemption, and I still believe that. But that hinges on those people recognizing their error and seeking to correct it.
Until that happens, it will be “Or shoot them in a gruelling civil war, and beat them so resoundingly that their ideology remains burnt and buried with them and Sherman himself would say “fucking hell”.”
Prepare, indeed. [email protected]
That’s good but it’s not enough to act smug, no matter how righteous it is, standing on the moral high ground if you want others to get up there, you have to lend a hand to lift others up.
Have faith, speaking as a Brit that voted remain who had to deal with the idiotic decision made by half the population, the majority of those people can be redeemed.
But you have to reach out and try to engage with them verbally in a non-combative tone, no matter how much you want to scream in their face that they’re so dense they make a brick look sharp.
That’s been going on for decades. It hasn’t worked. In fact, things have gotten much, much worse. And now the fascists have been voted in again, and are going to be taking full control of the entire US government in just over a month.
The time for gentle discussion has passed.
Well since you think your soapbox has been reduced to splinters, your ballot box has failed, the jury box is crumbling down before you, why don’t you crack open the ammo box NOW and take the initiative?
Preparing.
Best start actioning within a month because after that they won’t have to fire the first shot when they have the legal system to hide behind. For example, see Luigi.
Honestly I’d rather “forgive” the ones that didn’t vote since they outnumber the Trump supporters by quite a bit. The qanon types can eat crow from here to eternity for all I fucking care at that point, if we can get more people to actually give a fuck we won’t need those assholes.