(Disclaimer: I voted against Trump and anyone who supported him in my state.)

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    8 hours ago

    Multiple regulatory bodies are going to get disbanded. The EPA is unlikely to survive, whole departments of the FDA are about to get gutted. Anything involving industrial safety is going to get its funding cut. Unconstitutional crackdowns on free and independent media is almost certain. Large scale damage to the functions of many government institutions can be expected. Massive economic damage due to reckless deregulation ( that’s even before they start putting tariffs on everything and wind up in multiple simultaneous trade wars). Funding for education and infrastructure maintenance will be reduced to allow tax cuts for the already wealthy. Massive loss of global influence and a massive gain in influence by hostile autocratic nations is also something you can expect.

    I could go on and on but even if you were to assume they weren’t serious about project 2025 (if you haven’t read that you should) it’s real bad.

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      call me hopelessly naiive but just… why? the why is what i can never wrap my head around? why do they want to destroy the country? do they hate it? and like… why would people want to get rid of social security? do they just want people after 65 years old to… die? why?? i’m so sad…

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        Dictators only care about one thing: absolute power. They will destroy the country they take over to get that power and to keep it for as long as possible

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            4 hours ago

            Imagine basing your personality on a satire character and thinking you’re an independent thinker.

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              Read the comments and note the downvotes, sir. I’m definitely in the minority here. Therefore I would dare suggest it is in fact you who are the thoughtless parrot here. Governments are corrupt and incompetant organizations, and the bigger they become, the more corrupt and incompetant they are. If you truly are concerned that a single man can wreck such damage, you need to understand that is only possible because people like you have built up an organization that holds far too much power. The obvious solution is to shrink the scope of that organization so that a single maniac can’t do so much damage.

              Big government is to blame for Trump having so much power. Learn, or be doomed to see history repeat itself.

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                4 hours ago

                Just because you say the sky is yellow, doesn’t mean you’re better for it.

                If you shrink the government, corporations will just fill the power vacuum. It’s that simple.

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                  4 hours ago

                  Open your eyes. Corporations already heavily influence policy. Stop making that possible by decentralizing the power!

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                    We’ve already had four years of Trump to know that’s not what will happen. The only power he’ll relinquish is power over corporations. Individuals will not be getting more rights, unless it’s to hurt other individuals.