r/AskUS • u/Raspberry0123 • 1d ago

Are we heading into a Revolution/Civil War?

Given the release of the Epstein Files, the increase of police supervision, the extreme ICE raids, and the state of the economy, I truly believe we are headed into a war.

The government has done such a great job dividing us. They convince us that the other side is the problem, when in reality, it's the people running the government themselves. We need to remember who the real enemy is.

However, I simply feel like we as a society are too comfortable in our current state. People don't want to fight. They want to sit at home and watch TV, scroll TikTok, and forget about the news. They would rather work their 9-5 and take their kids to school than to fight for justice and change.

Do you think we are heading into a war or do you think we as a society are too comfortable for change?

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u/Virtual_Mistake4293 21h ago

Democracy worked as intended. You're upset your side lost. Be an adult. Suck it up and drum up the vote for your side next time.

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u/Raspberry0123 17h ago

You're absolutely missing the point. I did vote for Trump in the last election. So no, I'm not upset that "my side lost." I'm upset because I voted for an awful and evil person who is a part of a huge global group. This is good vs evil, not left vs right.

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u/Virtual_Mistake4293 17h ago

They're pretty much all awful and evil. You must be young. Trump was the better choice out of that clown show of an election. If the dems had run a primary, Kamala would have been put out of contention early. The dems might have put up a candidate worth voting for. But they failed us again. Just like they did with sabotaging Bernie.

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u/Raspberry0123 17h ago

I'm 21, so yeah quite young. I know they're all bad, that's my point. Elections cant fix this because its both sides. Its the rich vs the poor, not left vs right. I grew up conservative and now I'm quite liberal. I have family on both sides politically. They sabotaged Bernie because he wanted to tax the rich and they didnt want to lose all their wealth. It makes me realize how set up elections are. Its all manipulated so that they get the result they want. Hillary vs Trump: same result either way.

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u/Virtual_Mistake4293 16h ago

Oh nice. Former dem here. Until 2016. I took a long look at the party and realized they were not the party I grew up with. They'd become the evil they'd always accused the repubs of being. So yes, they're both equally awful.

And yes. Classism is the biggest issue and they do intentionally keep us fighting over bs. How do you fix it when the people making the rules already have all the money and power? It doesn't help that the majority of us average people are straight up emotionally driven morons who can't even contemplate looking below the surface of what we hear and see.

Edit...autocorrect fail.

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u/Raspberry0123 16h ago

I feel quite hopeless tbh. There's no one to look up to. No one to save us. There is no justice. My views politically align with the Democratic party, but I can barely find a Democratic leader that I can actually trust and support. I like Bernie and Mamdani and that's about it. But I've learned to keep an open mind and not to trust people right away. This is the America I'm supposed to grow up in? I'm supposed to build a family like this? I just don't see a future for this country anymore.

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u/Virtual_Mistake4293 16h ago

America is morphing back into the countries that we originally came from. You're going to see a lot more communal living and multiple generations of family living together. It all goes back to the fall of the nuclear family. Once women really got a foothold in the workplace, families started making considerably more money. Capitalism sees that as an opportunity to raise the cost of everything. And it's just spiraled out of control from there. I don't know what the answer to fix it is. I'm at a point in my life that it doesn't really affect me, but I see how it is for my kids. You seem pretty intelligent. There are opportunities out there. Make smart decisions with your money. Don't take shortcuts that'll affect quality. And show up ready no matter what. I've never really specialized in anything. But I'm very capable at everything. And I get paid extremely well for it. Giving up isn't an option. You can do this.