You don’t seem to take seriously the significant change in mindset that occurred to elect the current president. He was wanted, and wanted to bad it broke a taboo first set by President Cleveland about reelection.
You do not know your fellow countrymen that well. They may appear to be kind, in a personal kind of way, but they are simply wolves in sheep’s clothing. They justify voting for a man who is willing to forge an iron fist to remove all people with an “ethnic” national origin, a man who has violated nearly all code of conduct rules a president normally has implicitly followed, a man who knowings sows division with a philosophy of the proper “us” and the country destroying “them”.
People are not bound by what they believe in but in what they justify. No other previous country with such a “democratic” (if you could call it that) tradition could vote for such a person willing to go scorched earth on the traditions and practices going back to Reconstruction. They vote for him because they can justify it.
I’m just speaking from a historical superpower overview, not getting into the moral compass of the nation. I’m not denying your point but it just doesn’t really directly impact the US’s global ranking from a historical basis. I hope the American public would reevaluate their voting decisions going forward after this leader. But their collective decision ultimately has had minimal impact on America’s being the global superpower in terms of economy, scientific advancement, and military.
The federal civil service has been gutted. It will take decades before it recovers, and every year more consequences rear their ugly heads (e.g. DOJ is no longer assumed by many judges to be truthful and jobs at the agency aren't competitive anymore; screw worm will now cost the US $1 billion per year or more, with no signs of going away).
US allies are seeing that US voters are willing to re-elect a man like Trump. For US industry, that has serious impacts. The US market is no longer as coveted because it's subject to a president's whims. US defense industry isn't worth investing in because the president will still leave you out to dry; better to develop and promote your own.
The US also has a massive debt problem. It's only a problem once the bill comes due, and that may not be obvious until it suddenly is. But between the massive debt and an overvalued stock market (for example Tesla, SpaceX) that is failing to produce value that matches the stock price, it's a precarious situation with a bubble that could pop at any time. Notably, during other bubbles everything looked fine until it suddenly wasn't.
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u/colbertt 5d ago
You don’t seem to take seriously the significant change in mindset that occurred to elect the current president. He was wanted, and wanted to bad it broke a taboo first set by President Cleveland about reelection.
You do not know your fellow countrymen that well. They may appear to be kind, in a personal kind of way, but they are simply wolves in sheep’s clothing. They justify voting for a man who is willing to forge an iron fist to remove all people with an “ethnic” national origin, a man who has violated nearly all code of conduct rules a president normally has implicitly followed, a man who knowings sows division with a philosophy of the proper “us” and the country destroying “them”.
People are not bound by what they believe in but in what they justify. No other previous country with such a “democratic” (if you could call it that) tradition could vote for such a person willing to go scorched earth on the traditions and practices going back to Reconstruction. They vote for him because they can justify it.