George Carlin said it best. Imagine the intelligence of the average person, then realize that half of the population is worse. Speaking at the level of an 8 year old might not be a bad idea when speaking to the public. Personally, I saw Trump for what he was. An ill informed, lazy, sad, angry internet troll. There were days I'd get up and turn on the radio and hear the left going nuts over something that jackass had said. It was funny on so many levels.
As to the whole nothing ever changes thing? Are you going to somehow get rid of politicians getting paid off by corps? Somehow stop the lobbyists that work for them? A lot of these things are inherit to the free system we have. You're not going to get rid of corruption in a free system. In any system for that matter. The strength of any nation is dependent on its economy. Said economy is a result on a myriad of factors, one of the main ones is the efficiency of the companies that lie within it's borders. As an elected official it's your duty to do the best for your constituency, your state, and your country. Sometimes but not always in that order. In a lot of cases it's in the public's best interest to side with the corps on a lot of things, but one must not overreach.
Outside of moving to a completely different economic system that's not going to change.
As for the whole racist thing? Can't really bring myself care. Everyone's a racist to some degree. Though a more accurate term would be ethnicist. As more than often than not it's one's culture and not the color of one's skin nowadays that causes feelings of resentment. What's more is that racism SELLS! It drives clicks and ad revenue, and cancel culture, and counter culture, etc. It's in many companies best interest to fan that flame as high as they think it will go. I mean, you've now got some governments discussing reparations of all things. What do you think THAT will do to the economy? I think Thomas Sowell said it best. Just about every major civilization throughout history had slavery in some form or other, America's no different. If every group had to repay every other group for bad shit their ancestors did then we'd never get anywhere and end up in a quagmire of epic proportions. As far as the actual state of racism in the us I like to go by what the homicide rates I can find are.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls Keep in mind that this data is nowhere near complete. Yes, blacks kill whites at twice the rate that whites kill blacks, but I figure this is a result of there being a lot more white people than there are black people.
I have several guns in my home. Most of them weren't purchased with other people in mind. America is a lot like Australia in that there are vast stretches of rural land occupied by wild animals. Several of those animals are dangerous. I've had to kill a bear, a cougar, a couple of coyote, and I don't know how many snakes over the years. Not everyone lives in paved concrete monstrosities. You know how many people I've had to injure or kill in America? None.
Yes, I have a pistol I carry on me at all times I'm legally allowed because I believe on being prepared for any eventuality. But mostly again, I mostly wear it to deal with the wildlife. As far as people are concerned my stance is this: I wasn't trained as a cop, I was trained as a marine. It'll only ever come out if there's a direct imminent threat to me and mine, and there'll be no pointing at people or using it for intimidation.
As for homicide rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate America isn't quite as bad as most people think. As for guns being the major point of that, you're right
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/ but it's mostly handguns doing the lifting on that one. Not the scary looking assault weapons. I don't count suicides, for obvious reasons.
A lot of what America was built on was based on a philosophy personal liberty and the rejection of tyranny (irony, I know). Look at Canada. They recently passed a law that made it illegal if you don't use someone's preferred pronoun. In the UK it's illegal to cause offense. Dankula was convicted for teaching a pug a nazi salute as a joke. And, watch the video, it was funny. He did it because it was his gf's dog and he found it annoying. His gf loved the thing so he thought he'd used it to play a prank if I remember right. It sent the pc sjws around the bend. Not to mention it's only enforced on the common folk. If you're a celebrity you can say pretty much what you want. It's even happening in America. Look at the coronavirus lockdowns. If you're a small store that sells appliances you're forced to close, but if you're a huge chain like lowes you can stay open. Music festivals? Conferences? Sporting events? Closed. 'Mostly peaceful' protests? Feel free. There's a reason some of these measures are being declared unconstitutional. These lockdowns are killing small businesses by the bucketload. I can't say I have a better alternative, but we'll be seeing repercussions of this for the next decade at least, probably longer. Hell, we're already 27 trillion in debt and climbing. Though most of that the government owes to us as they've stolen it out of our social security. All of these are actions of tyranny. Some worse than others. An armed population is a lot harder to deal with than an unarmed one, but even being armed isn't the best insulation to all forms of tyranny.
As for the whole celebration thing? Do I think people are naive for celebrating one old bag of hot air beating another old bag of hot air? Yep. All politicians are chameleon-snakes. Everyone of them will spout platitudes that they think the people want to hear. Will it change some things? I have no doubt. We'll probably see him try to push through a couple more socialist policies that we just cannot afford driving the deficit even higher. Does that make me a whiny pre-teen edgelord? :'D Sticks and stones will break by bones but words will never hurt me! So naah!