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I miss the times when the west wasn't so divided..
Blame Trump
Blame Reagan. This shit has been festering for decades.
The southern strategy yeah. But post Reagan, the Republican Party had been trying to be more inclusive. Bush made it a point to have more diversity in his cabinet. Hell after the 2012 election, FOX News was even saying “Maybe America Dosent Care About Immigration, we need to pivot”.
We made so much social progress during the Obama years man. Then trump came in and brought out the worst in our country.
The Internet becoming algorithm and bot driven was the point of no return I think.
I know there are a lot of bots on reddit nowadays, but I blame the bandwagoning bs more. It has just gotten worse and worse over the past 10 years.
Ten years ago, everyone was exposed to some amount of News (capitalized), could recognize News when they saw it (even as fringe case conspiracy theorists), and had a reasonable connection to reality. I’m just not seeing it anymore. There is no truth but my echo chamber
Yeah social media has been a gift and curse. Not the internet as a whole. People having the ability to find more critical thinking political discussion online is great.
Only problem is, the right online is like FOX News on steroids.
At the very least they were sane and acted in the interests of the country as they saw it. You could discuss, argue, sometimes work together, and we all went on bumbling our way forward.
There was so much hope around Obama, so much possibility, it felt like a turning point toward the future. And yes, Biden continued in them at direction.
I don’t know if it’s all backlash, or the death of traditional News, or “the algorithm”, but the reactionaries, regressives, narrow minded people with no trace of empathy not just found a voice but found an idol to worship. Who brought them to power. And being exploited just makes them cling to their worship
Bill Clinton’s success was the beginning of the end of bipartisanship in Federal politics. He made the economy as strong as it had been since the 50s and was the last president to leave office with less national debt. He wouldn’t have been able to do so without Republicans voting for his policies.
GOP strategist saw this, and pretty much since have went out of their way to block any potential progress from a Democratic president to keep them closer to unpopularity.
Obama was the first Dem to be a victim of this. But that guy could negotiate his ass off and was able to bounce back from the 08 recession rather quickly and ended his term with a positive economy.
Biden was too damn old to fight back or compromise, and didn’t have nearly as many votes as Obama to ignore the GOP with his reconciliation bill.
If more people online actually knew about civics and the inner working of political strategies, they’d realize just how much progress the GOP has blocked within the last 30 years.
Lots of people on Lemmy seem to realize …. Too bad that’s not the real world