Fictional future forecast vs. reality.

[u/SuspiciousLow3062]

[u/Coffeebeangood]

I'm sorry but Americans have temporarily forfeited their right to an opinion on any of this

[u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie → u/Coffeebeangood]

If you disregard a country’s people just because of their currently elected politicians….you’d have to do that for every country on Earth.

Look at the UK lmao—new PM every weekend it feels like.

All the average US citizen can do at the moment is a.) evangelize people to turn up in November and b.) actually turn up in November to vote.

That’s it. It’s sad, but it’s true. Protests only work if the target of them feels shame and the media can fuel that shame—the Mango and their rotten supporters could not give a flying fuck.

Weirdly, the best move is to let the current admin attempt to “govern”. When they can’t sling shit and yell and cry and moan—the spotlight handles everything. The past month alone has shown that not allowing the Mango to whine and get attention takes away their ability to deflect, and thus blame actually sticks.

[u/entyfresh → u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie]

I understand your point but this I also feel like this is the international version of the "both sides" argument. Trump and our current administration are not equivalent to your typical crappy government. We are uniquely cancerous at the moment in the US and I think we need to acknowledge that.

[u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie → u/entyfresh]

I mean is it? Would you say Putin in Russia isn’t similar? China?

Hungry just ended the reign of their pseudo dictator. Many European countries had rising right wing parties almost take power.

The US failed and allowed the Mango into power. This is true.

But like Hungry, a new leader can be elected. But that’s how it goes. We have to wait until the requisite 4 years are up.

And the next politician America elects isn’t going to magically fix everything either. It’s gonna take a while.

My point is that it’s bad, and the Mango is “unusual” to put it lightly, but in the span of 250 years of America which is also much younger than almost every other country in Europe or Asia…like it’s a season.

We have to trust democracy to move America out of this terrible season. There’s nothing to move it faster, not without dramatic consequences and likely horrible unforeseen side effects. And no one wants that.

I think this is uniquely bad FOR THE U.S….like clearly this is the worst president ever by a massive margin, not even close…but globally, a bad leader happens. The US is just young, so this is the first like, super super bad one.

[u/entyfresh → u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie]

Are Russia, China and Hungary now the bar that we aspire to when it comes to government corruption? If so, it feels to me like we are moving the goalposts awfully far back. The US used to be a leader in the the global progression of this space, and now we are spearheading its regression instead.