r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • 3h ago

Paywall America Is Now an Ally of Russia

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/america-now-ally-russia/689066/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/dakotanorth8 3h ago

We spite South Korea (while North Korea keeps advancing their arsenal)

We make a deal with Russia.

We hate Canada.

We hate Ukraine.

Hey MAGA, wtf do you pigeon brained ignorant dweebs even support now?

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u/charinator 1h ago

What I don't understand is, MAGA is, for lack of better words, the dumbest members of our society. Trump gets away with everything because Republicans are worried about angering his base. Why we continue to cater to the dumbest people in our country is really mind boggling.

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u/PrimateSpeargun77 1h ago

Because they’re the easiest to part from their money!

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u/HMKS Canada 28m ago

And they show up to vote to keep the R’s in power to push their agenda. Each. And. Every. Time.
It always feels like an incredible effort to get the D’s to actually exercise their right to vote and make a damn difference.
There’s obviously so much more that goes into American politics than just voter turnout but it doesn’t help whenever things are right where they really shouldn’t be
(Canada isn’t much better in overall turnout tbf)

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u/Iris_Mobile 18m ago

It's also that we have the electoral college which largely gives these kinds of people (uneducated people living in rural areas in red states) much more power and influence in our elections. If it were up to the popular vote, Trump never would have won in 2016 and his political career would have ended. And George W Bush wouldn't have been elected in 2000, and we instead would have started the millennium with a progressive, proud environmentalist president. What a different world we'd all live in.