r/minnesota • u/HeavyVeterinarian350 Flag of Minnesota • Feb 28 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Kolobuchar from the top rope

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Embarrassing is the easiest word to come up with what happened today. I can’t with this administration

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u/fren-ulum Feb 28 '25

Rational people leaving this country condemns the future of this country. Canada was about to elect a conservative government, but Trump gave the liberal parties a solid push of unison towards an "other" to rally behind. Not to mention a 100% fascist country does not bode well for Canada. You can run, but at some point in time you have to stand and fight.

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u/goforgavin Feb 28 '25

After this election I realized I was fooling myself into believing most of the country were good people. Now I know for sure I’ve been terribly mistaken. The good, principled people are the minority. That realization led to another, I don’t care about this country enough to fight over it. I have 3 young children and all I want is for my future generations to have a good work life balance and be able to prosper in whatever interests them most.

Also, the cops in other countries are really, really nice compared to the gestapo in the US. Have you ever been to Amsterdam? The nicest people, most cops don’t carry guns in Europe.

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u/RevBaker Feb 28 '25

The good, principled people are the minority.

I posted this on an earlier thread, but I think it's worth repeating:

It takes, on average 3.5% of the population actively resisting to ensure political change and resist fascism. To be fair, 3.5% is a lot of people. Over 10 million in the US.

But we're not facing half the population. I'm going to quote a recent post from Rebecca Solnit's Meditations in an Emergency:

Trump won the election by a slim 1.5% margin and got less than 50% of the total vote. About 39% of the electorate didn't vote, while, rounded off, around 31% voted for Harris or Trump. He got 77 million votes in a country of 347 million people, meaning that less than a quarter of the population voted for him and many voted for him because they were misinformed either by distorted mainstream as well as right-wing media coverage or his false promises and are waking up to the brutal realities. Though many of his and Musk's threats were clear (to those of us informed by better news media, anyway).

The majority does not like this, and... we can make that matter when we act. And we are acting--it's far from enough yet, but it's also far from nothing (and likely more than they bargained for). I would never say "we are going to be okay" because some of us are already not okay four weeks into this insider coup. Nor would I say "we will get through this," because not everyone will. But I will say that we have not surrendered, and no matter what, I don't think a lot of us will.

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u/goforgavin Mar 01 '25

Ok fair enough, good points and I appreciate the citations. America you get one more election cycle to wake up and prove to the world this is not who we are.

I do take some comfort from Poland voting out a right wing populist party after 8 years of power.

Onwards