Tom Clancy’s US Politics Thread

“Trump, who has called the climate crisis a “hoax” and “one of the great scams of all time”, has promised to “drill, baby, drill” and end Biden’s pause on liquefied natural gas export terminals, among other things. And his four-year term arrives at precisely the moment the Earth most needs to accelerate efforts to curb climate change.”

Yeahhhhhhh
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/06/donald-trump-wins-election-11-issues-threat

Basically, thatcher and Reagan ruined politics forever

The chickens are once again returning to the roost.

I agree but Labour have the chance to make it about people aswell as growth. They did just increase the salary of millions by a huge chunk as well as cost businesses. 

It's a very Labour thing to do. They "just" need to make the economy work for even more people. 

(I don't know how either)

The status quo is never going to allow someone who runs on a platform for genuine change to survive, though. Corbyn might have had some ridiculous old school socialist idiocies in his arsenal, but it wasn't those which had him continuously destroyed in the press.

It was the idea that he was offering change from the neoliberal capitalist death cycle model of endlessly increasing profits for the few and people were interested.

Can't have that. Back to right now... Starmer has started the merest of efforts to improve things and he's already "the worst leader ever" in the press and on the socials.

Oh, indeed.

But to paraphrase an anarchist, you can't emancipate the people, the people have to want to emancipate themselves.

Clearly in America, they don't.

Infrastructure, particularly on a big scale, usually takes longer than one term, and governments usually only have the one now.

Apart from the 3+ term Conservatives just gone and the 3+ term Labour Government before that. The problem is enabling a change of leadership so easily and regularly. That's what causes resets and short term, personal gain policies.

Did they at least add an extra level to it?

www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/economy-if-trump-wins-second-term-could-mean-hardship-for-americans-rcna177807?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Poor people need to live within their means even harder.

Aren't we all part of the problem? We're all buying big SUVs because that is what is sold to us as having more room. You can't park these big SUVs everywhere, because the parking spaces are mostly designed for 1970s vehicles, then you've got these big retail parks that everyone gravitates towards to, that are designed so shitly, that you can't get your massive SUV out of them.. and then there's big bottlenecks and you can get stuck on them for 40-50 minutes, meaning the ANPR camera will get you for over staying the two hour limit. And not to mention the B roads that are not designed for these cars either.

RANT OVER. DELETE BRITAIN. START AGAIN.

I'm with Nick on this one. Governments (Western ones at least) have given the reigns to financial institutions (banks, funds, the faceless "market") and these rule only with growth and profit in mind, while public necessities like education, health, insurance, minimum wage, benefits etc. suffer. So, the average Joe and Jane are left feeling (and being) neglected and when they look for someone to blame, the media (also tied to or run by the same institutions) point the finger to scapegoats like immigrants (who often are the result of the same governments fucking their lives). Also, it's difficult to care for diversity, equality, inclusion or even decent human rights when you barely manage to get by, paycheck to paycheck, and conmen weaponise culture wars to keep people engaged and angry for all the wrong reasons...

It's a vicious circle that's tough to break and anyone willing to fight for a change will face an uphill battle (if not totally destroyed in the process).