• NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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    22 days ago

    Trump is the sum of American will put together. There are plenty of people pulling in the other direction, but not enough to counter his runaway train of ingrained selfishness.

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      22 days ago

      He’s the sum of a garbage political system, not its people. California has 40 million people and Wyoming has 550k, and yet they have the same number of senators.

      Most people see the bloated orange huckster toddler for who he is, but imperfect systems of government are always fallible to bad actors.

    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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      22 days ago

      That’s what I’m afraid of. The best of us aren’t even good enough to offset the net harm he does. Or maybe the best of us just are a little bit like him too, in a way that isn’t perceptible to us because of how we’re raised.