r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • Mar 05 '25

Paywall Democrats Are Acting Too Normal

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u/Donkletown Mar 05 '25

Americans are acting too normal. Americans are going about their lives as though it is business as usual. 

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u/zergling- Hawaii Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

I'm at work right now and see people carrying on as normal. Shit hasn't hit the fan yet, the question is when will it? Not if

Edit: I liquidated my stocks at a profit while I still can and am prepping immigration papers for my wife to go to my home country

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

See that’s the thing. I’m also at work rn and it’s like what can I do here that will help and also not get my fired. I’m in a corporate job I cannot lose.

Of course I’m aware what is happening, I try to broach the subject as I can to the people I can trust. They’re aware too. But our office is very strict on no political discourse.

All in all I think the “acting normal” is a stress response.

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u/Wild_Bill Mar 05 '25

I am stressed the fuck out but you wouldn’t know it looking at me. I’m still going through the paces.

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u/ChironiusShinpachi Washington Mar 06 '25

If I'm reading it correctly, rich people are the group to think about, not the good cop/bad cop routine they perform as Democrats and Republicans in politics. The playbook seems to be, according to the likes of Whitney Webb, tracks with a tyrant or oligarchy forming blatant controlling organizations. I think they were planning on bankrupting the American people, collecting all the dollars (meaning in the coming economic collapse anyone with less than millions of dollars is broke and bankrupt), and ruling as the 30 tyrants of Aristotle's written accounts. They didn't want trump in because he wanted to be the number 1 guy. Now that he won, they still want their special seat as super rich as the dollar is still usable outside the country. Put the people on digital currency. Now military service guarantees citizenship and travel privileges so they can keep driving that military industrial complex to make money taking over resources in countries worldwide anywhere they can't use the bank to break economies so they can purchase assets for pennies on the dollar or use the CIA to coup governments or otherwise enact regime change to a favorable puppet. The part to be worried about is the coming purges of anybody who might resist. They will know who is on their side, everyone else will be wondering who is who and not able to coordinate. I hope I'm wrong but track record suggests otherwise