From the outside looking in, with how prevalent US politics is online (legitimately, alot of people think the internet is the US) it is a giant bubble that's looking like it's bursting. Of course i only get the most extreme view because i see alot of it on the internet, but i can't imagine how it's like living there if you are a normally thinking person and not an extremist just waiting their turn to burn your country down. The truth of the matter is that this seems like history kinda repeating itself. All nations has gone through and will go through massive societal change, and historically that doesn't necessarily look pretty, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. It's also a time for change, it's just navigating the right people in the right place at the right time that's difficult. My fear is that money has gotten such a stranglehold on US politics, that there's little chance to get the right person in place, in the right time to deal with the problems facing your country, but there is a chance for success. Maybe the solution is for the non-extremist left and right join together in the center, truelly abandon the radicals to argue with eachother, while you focus on campaigning, funding etc. a 3rd party candidate who actually gives a shit about the American people, and doesn't just follow along with the extremist rhetoric. Both the democrats and the republican parties just seem done tbh, i see very little chance that any of them will ever fundamentally change the system, which is needed, your country needs plurality representation. Something has to happen, and it's better for the moderates to do it than the extremists. Somehow get the remaining 40% some percent of your country to vote, plurality representation might help with that. I can definently see a future for the US as a parliamentarian country, and honestly i think that would help you out alot with the radicalisation of people who feel disenfrachised and give more options to the people who feel jaded by the current status quo. Of course, easier said than done, and it has always taken multiple generations. Rome wasn't build in a day, as they say.

Yeah, as a centrist its getting really tiring to create any sort of discussion in modern political environment. It has to be this side or other and refusing to take a side will get you called a "fence-sitter" and funnily enough even called Far-right and Far-left on the same day. I guess it is impossible nowadays to find nuance and weight the merits and demerits of both sides. Even refusing to play the game and being apolitical is considered a political statement. And here i thought Zoomers are the ones with brainrot.

Yeah for many you can at least see how or why they ended up where they are. You might not agree but there is a line to follow. This really feels like a shizophrenic episode except he had to write the script, gather "evidence", edit and upload the video.

Its like the save file is getting too big and its slowing down the collective brain power of the world

@@ZeallustImmortal right?! Like the world is lagging so much that brain rot is what replaces intelligence

@@Kee133 To be realistic though, people have always been this dumb. They just have a platform now.

@@ZeallustImmortal true, I agree it was always bad before a platform, but now that the brain rot can grow unmoderated it will and is getting worse

I like this summary, very simple to understand and fairly unbiased. I like to describe conservatism as being cautious of change because we risk losing so much if this house of cards we call society collapses, while progressivism is being adamant that we can always improve, why are we content with the devil we know? The toxicity in politics frustrates me. Everyone in a democratic society needs to be involved and informed, but if those who do not see it as a hobby are insulted, mocked, and persecuted by the "informed", they'll just tune out, go with their (uninformed) gut, and call it a day. There are pros and cons to every honest position, and everyone weighs those based on their own beliefs and experiences. Branding the opposition as "racists" or "commies" and not seriously considering their position is not only shutting out perspectives you may not have considered, but it's how you force people into distinct tribes. Once you do that, the odds of violent conflict skyrocket, and the winner will not always be the one who was morally in the right...

My favorite part about his twitter posts was him saying "Instead of actually pointing out what I got wrong theyre just pointing out the things I got wrong"