Just watched the Boy Boy video on George Bush’s Masterclass, and they made me think about which U.S. President was actually worse.

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
    342·
    1 year ago

    Potentially? Trump. Factually? Bush. However, to be honest, the American political system seems to be fucked up to the point it doesn't resemble a democracy. Currently, their population suffers from this situation with poverty, addiction to drugs, a corrupt healthcare system, inability to own a home, shitty jobs, etc. So, it really doesn't matter too much which one is worse. Biden or nobody else can fix this from within. But yeah, a second term of Trump would be definitely catastrophic and would compete with Bush's levels of destruction. Right now, the only thing containing Trump is his short term period in power.

    • tryagain@lemm.ee
      121·
      1 year ago

      The most depressing and convincing theory I've read about the state of American democracy is Sarah Kendzior's book "They Knew".

      The tl;dr is that the US is ungovernable. The ruling classes don't have the will to fix the economic and cultural divides that split the country and there's an unspoken understanding between them all that the only way is down.

      So they're letting it run its course, letting the weakest fall into the gears and skimming off what wealth they can, to insulate themselves from the inevitable chaos.