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I say this as an American.
You're all better than us, a lot of people here voted for the Trump, and most of us are so successfully deluded by oligarch propaganda that many blame our powerless, homeless neighbors that we abandoned and betrayed for what the owners inflict on us.
We are gaslit beyond all hope. We can't even agree as a society that our children should be fed, and this madness of greed and demented levels of toxic individualism didn't start with Trump. It boggles my mind that people have actually wanted to immigrate here in my 40 years living inside this cesspool, only good at being an exporter of death and state mandated avarice.
Unless you're wealthy, or are sociopathic enough to become so because sociopathy is what we reward, this is a garbage place of largely garbage people. Most here would rather burn ourselves and the world than disempower our capitalists, as that would be "socialism," a word our captured government rebranded as a boogieman and that, by design, most Americans couldn't actually define with access to one of our underfunded libraries and a gun to their head.
Agree. It's the basic shit that defines the GOP as inhumane, like fighting tooth and nail to take what little low income families get from the government because you once saw a guy try to use his EBT card to get something non essential.
And fighting to take food away from children, literally, who have no say in what happens anyway. Fuck the GOP.
The biggest difference is that European countries have parliamentary democracies. This means that everyone has a party that, at least to some degree, fits their needs and wants. I’m sure that if Americans realistically had more than two choices, things would be different.
While I agree with you, don't forget we don't have him as our leader with his gangster powers to make you disappear. Easier to call him out at that point.
I appreciate the comment, we made our bed when a gun wasn't to our head. Twice.
And I'll argue to the end of the world that Reagan did more harm to this country and the world than Trump can ever hope to. You don't get to Trump without the Economic betrayal, getting the people's opposition party permanently on the oligarch take, and the war on science/knowledge/facts/education that get in the way of short term private profit without the Reagan/Welch revolution, that infected Europe too sadly, notably cooperation of message with that bitch Thatcher. The UK is basically a little Forward Operating Base for our greed disease and conversion of nation states into exploiters of their people now.
Trump is just the latest rot of the corpse of the shitty nation Reagan killed. He just isn't remembered that way because feigned statesmanship as he sold us off piece by piece and set this slow coup in motion.
Don't. Give. Your. Economic. Elite. A. Single. Centimeter. It's too late for us, but you can be saaaaaaaaaaaaaved.
Reagan started it, but Trump intends to finish it, and turn the US into a full dictatorship. There is a very real possibility of no elections in 2028...
Hear me now believe me later, he has already chosen his successor in Elon Muck...
Al though I agree with a lot of what you say, I do follow some decent Americans on YouTube. There are also anti capitalist and free thinkers out there, but you know how it goes anywhere on the globe: the stupid are the loudest.
From what I see on YouTube, there are still a lot of people in the US who do boycott, who do protest. It is just that media does not show it. You know how media is. The good thing is you don’t need most of the chunk of the population to protest, but if the few percentage that do last long enough, you can make a change.
From what I see people organise themselves, and have strategies on how to act. And long enough boycotts are effective. You had in US history such effective boycotts. And people who are not willing to boycott or protest now, might slowly dip their toes into this mindset if there are enough examples for long enough around them.
Do not despair, if you do, they win. Act in any way you can, even if only boycotting the big players. Build communities and rely on yourselves. I mean, look at all the countries that are boycotting also. Their wallets will be affected and they will get scared.
A lot of Americans have drowned in the shit that comes from the Bullshit Mountain Ranges of Fox News, OANN and NewsMax, and whatever is on right wing talk radio these days.
Which is why a lot of them feared communism/socialism, if they voted for a Democrat. Which, looking from outside in, is so laughable, but the insidious nature of right wing propaganda has worked wonders.
The entire country is going to need a kind of deprogramming the likes of which no one has ever seen.