I'm also growing more and more detached from politics due to my frustration that little to nothing is being accomplished. A clean air bill was just struck down, once again proving America's anti-intellectualism and utter distrust of science. Congress just passed a 59 billion dollar bill further funding the hopelessly unwinnable war in Afghanistan, showing that the documents leak from wikileaks didn't do a fucking thing. What's so frustrating to me is that this was the best we could do. I doubt the Democrats will ever have a majority as big as this again into the foreseeable future, and this was the best we could do with it. Republicans are going to stomp them in November, and we're going to be stuck in a Clinton-esque dead zone again.
I haven't lost faith in our political system, I've simply lost faith in the American people for being so fucking stupid. Ever since Obama came into office, Republicans have been doing nothing but spreading smears and lies, and by the time they're all debunked, they've moved onto other ones and nobody cares anymore. Progressives have all the arguments on their side, but emotions are more powerful than rationality, and conservatives have figured out how to tap into those brilliantly. When Democrats started saying we should better regulate the biggest corporations to prevent a recession like this from ever happening again, Republicans said it was a socialist government takeover, and the momentum died right there. To stop health care, Republicans started crying death panels and abortion, and then the bill turned into a miserable mess. Their lies are working, and Democrats are going to lose control of Congress because of it. And just as Chris Hayes emphasizes, once they have a good number in Congress again, their obstructionism is going to grind the U.S. government to a complete halt. And then they'll blame the very problems they are causing on Obama some more.
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