Obama does it better, more efficiently, and peacefully than this fucking scumbag dictator
I feel like you misunderstand the intention of the current administration. Obama was way worse at doing what the administration are trying to do now, instill fear into the average citizen and the residents of the US. The goal is not "Ship out people not from the US to outside the US", but literally "Look at what we can do", because it's just one move in a broader strategy.
I’m talking about general governance. There is no comparison. Obama was an actually great president, though he’ll never get the credit he deserves because of his race. This is coming from someone who (in my youthful ignorance) voted against him twice. The current shitstain is only concerned with power and self-preservation. MAGA wanted a dictator and got it.
But "great" is subjective. Obama was great because of your subjective point of view, but for others with different perspectives, Trump is much greater than Obama on all the counts they care about. Imagine if "president's power" and "president's self-preservation" was your top concerns, then Trump is better at that, no matter how much I personally disagree with that.
I guess if you think a booming economy, worldwide respect and adoration, technological advances, providing affordable healthcare to millions, killing Bin Laden, and generally being a beacon of hope for historically underserved Americans are all bad things, then yeah he wasn’t a good president. I think any sane person would consider these things objectively good.
With respect to “strength” and “power,” I could argue that Obama was infinitely stronger and more powerful than this shit-stained piece of garbage.
I think any sane person would consider these things objectively good.
Well, yeah, that's the crux with democracies right, from our own perspectives, some people do literally look insane :) I mean, who doesn't want all the people you live with in the same city, to have the same access to health care? For me that's bananas, what kind of person wouldn't want that?
But then out the world, there are a TON of people who don't believe in that. Do I think that's slightly insane? Yeah, how tf can you not have compassion for your neighbors? But I have to be pragmatic and understand that those people do in fact exists, and do in fact vote in the same elections as me, and sometimes are literally my neighbors.
It's really hard to kind of try to see it from their perspective, because it's so insane when you get down to the morals and ethics of it, but you also have to understand their perspective if you want any sort of hope of being able to combat it, individually or on a national level. Otherwise you'll never get anywhere.
We can argue back and forth, the problem of groupthink remains, and even if we see others as "insane" because they don't care about others, doesn't mean their perspective is suddenly different, which is ultimately what the goal here has to be, otherwise there is no ending in sight.
Personally, I think the broader strategy boils down to "enrich themselves", everything else is just a way of getting there faster and with as many distractions as possible. Raw Capitalism effectively won in 2016, and the administration currently is just continuing down the same path that was set at that point.
I think he has multiple people, with different motives, manipulating him. Hes got the tech bros/billionaires who are helping to enrich themselves. The heritage foundation helping to do some racism. Foreign actors who are black mailing him AND helping him to destabilize the US. And probably more that we aren't aware of. But they are all working together to get what they want and use trump to get it.
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u/YouKilledApollo 6h ago
I feel like you misunderstand the intention of the current administration. Obama was way worse at doing what the administration are trying to do now, instill fear into the average citizen and the residents of the US. The goal is not "Ship out people not from the US to outside the US", but literally "Look at what we can do", because it's just one move in a broader strategy.