Even with Trump Back and the GOP in Chaos, People Still Trust Republicans More

[Hardkill]

I’m honestly at a breaking point with how bad things have gotten—not just in terms of policy, but perception.
I just watched this video by Chris Cillizza, and I've seen a number of other videos on other channels like this one on this problem, and it’s left me feeling deeply pessimistic.

We’re now 7 months into Trump’s second term, and despite the chaos, indictments, dysfunction, and extremism, something disturbing is happening:

• The Democratic Party’s approval rating is still falling. And even worse: Polling shows that Americans trust Republicans more than Democrats to run the country.

Let that sink in. We’re living in a country where truth and results no longer matter. The Democrats delivered:

• A soft landing from inflation
• Record job growth and manufacturing investment
• The lowest poverty rate in U.S. history (on a 4-year average)
• The most pro-union administration in decades
• Historic infrastructure and green energy spending
• and so much more

And yet, the dominant public narrative is that they’ve “destroyed the economy,” “opened the borders,” or “failed the country.”
The Democrats can’t even gain ground with Trump actively back in power—and under multiple felony convictions. That’s how broken our information ecosystem has become.

This isn’t just about poor messaging. It’s a full-blown epistemic collapse.

As someone deeply into consciousness work, I can’t help but see this as a spiritual and psychological crisis. When a society becomes so disconnected from reality that facts and material improvements can’t shift public perception, what hope is there for reform?

So I’m asking this community:

• How can Democrats (or any rational movement) turn things around when perception has become fully decoupled from reality?
• What happens when mass consciousness is hijacked by emotion, tribalism, and misinformation?
• Is it even possible to win in a system where truth doesn’t matter—only narrative?
• Or are we watching the slow death of reality-based politics altogether?

I used to think better policy and clearer communication would be enough. Now I’m not so sure.
Would love to hear how others here are processing this—especially those thinking at the intersection of politics, media, and collective consciousness.

Sure, lots of things can change a year or two or three from now, but I’m losing faith in the Democrats' future.

I am not even sure now if the Democrats can win the 2026 midterms.

Edited July 28 by Hardkill

[Apparition of Jack]

Old systems are breaking down, people are slowly waking up, but this means that those old systems will fight extra hard to legitimise themselves in the minds of the people.

It’s why Trump’s approval rating with Republicans went up after the Epstein allegations came out. People have so deeply, deeply bought into the delusion that Trump is a good man that even the most glaring evidence that he isn’t causes a (short-term) spike in popularity as his supporters “rally around the leader” to reinforce that delusion.

I see this is a test of faith in basic human decency and material truth. There are so, so many forces attempting to convince people that:

- unrepentant greed is good for the world

- humans are above nature

- certain races are genetically superior to others

- America is uniquely favoured by the universe and above “lesser” rules 

Etc etc. That’s why everything feels so chaotic and nonsensical lately.

I say just hold the line. If you were in Europe in 1941, Germany wouldve seemed unstoppable - France had fallen, Britain was on the backfoot, and Hitler was about to take Moscow - but less than four short years later Hitler was dead, the Third Reich in ruins and Nazism/ultranationalism forever discredited on the world stage. Democracy and kindness proved stronger in the end.

I don’t know what else to say beyond this. It sometimes fucks with me too. I just hold onto faith and trust that darkness is only as powerful as people believe in it and eventually light always shines through. This, too, shall pass, after all.

Edited July 28 by Apparition of Jack

[Spiral]

Would be nice if you got a new fresh party. 

 

I like Bernie, for instance, he seems good. Probably other good options

[Hardkill]

13 minutes ago, Spiral said:

Would be nice if you got a new fresh party. 

 

I like Bernie, for instance, he seems good. Probably other good options

Too old and too much of a socialist. 

[Spiral]

@Hardkill Too old, yes, yet not socialist enough. But he is getting there

[oldhandle]

Leaving USA and never coming back is an option.

It's funny how Americans roll their eyes at this when, unless you are Native American, it's exactly what your ancestors did when it was time to escape from a shitty situation. 

[Lyubov]

Dems are just so spineless. They adopted such a bizarre identity where they disowned all masculine elements to the point now where it’s just a genuinely cringy and weak party. I don’t feel like a man associating with Dems. I want a party that is strong and champions human rights but also embraces manhood, male leadership and diversity without going so far to the left where we have transexual rainbow hair people and all the weird far left culture stuff as its face. Many Dems have completely torched all the good things about appealing to traditional conservative family values and instead took on a wild experiment of self expression. All they had to do is be less gay and be less soft and make the party about the 99% who are being exploited by billionaires. But instead the party has to be about giving gays or black women voices and letting guys step back to let them lead. The party has a massive image issue and it’s as confused about its identity as much as many of their lgbtq voters. In short Dems need to drop all identity politics and become a party about fighting for democracy, human rights and anti corruption, a return to the working man union party. 

Edited July 29 by Lyubov

[sholomar]

If democrats simply had some, ANY vetting on who comes into the country, and bothered to try enforcing laws and punishing criminals in big cities just a little, they'd probably still be in power. These soros funded prosecutors that catch felons in possession of firearms, major car thefts and robberies, running from the police and causing accidents, and then never punish them, they end back out on the streets, this is what is unpopular. It's rewarding bad behavior. Democrats reward bad behavior. A society should reward responsible behavior. Republicans try to do this, despite their corrupt nature.   Personal and individual responsability and accountability should be a thing, calling it "community" responsibility is a copout to justify an ideology (spiral dynamics stage green) that doesn't work.   

You can't shower a stage blue/red with green values and expect them to behave themselves. For that matter, you can't expect a person to simply do the right thing, all the time. Our genetic makeup is too primitive for that, without further genetic engineering. The socialist utopian state where you can pay everyone to do nothing won't work until we can replace all human labor with machines, and get our primitive genetic makeup up to modern standards with engineering.  I'm rooting for you though.... nobody would love to escape corporate wage slavery as much as I would.... but in nature, species have to work hard to survive and reproduce... they don't get to sit around and have their hands held and get coddled, unfortunately. Murder as the way to be able to pass on one's seed is the norm, not the exception. 

Plus, democrats got overconfident... why the fuck did they pick Tim Walz as VP? What were they thinking? They thought they could win no matter who they ran. They would have won had they ran ANYONE else. That was on them. Now today's youth are rebelling against "wokeness" which I find amusing and refreshing. It was becoming a bit stale and suffocating, like a religious person peddling their wares on the masses.   In any case it's all a distraction... this political infighting is not what enlightenment is about, it's about radical acceptance of what is. Let the sheep fight over this video game for the soul, and make it all real to themselves, getting caught up in the drama as their genes would have them do. Let your large "spiritual egos" as David Hawkins would call them, shine forth. Be the spiritual warrior he warned everyone about.

Edited July 29 by sholomar

[Apparition of Jack]

@sholomar They did. The Republicans shot it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration?wprov=sfti1#Bipartisan_Border_Security_Bill_(2023-2024)

>It was negotiated in a bipartisan manner and initially looked like it had the votes to pass until Donald Trump opposed it, citing that it would boost Biden's reelection chances.[81][79]

Edited July 29 by Apparition of Jack