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Living through it day to day, I assume most people are just confused and unbalanced, but looking back at this historically, it's going to be so goddamn obvious.
Trump is systematically destroying ties with all of US's allies going back 70-80 years. There is no justification, not even "fentanyl" and "immigration" apply to most of the allies we're picking fights with. The only country safe from criticism is Russia.
To me there is no doubt what's happening, but it's incredibly discouraging that there doesn't seem to be a thing we can effectively do about it. American voters were offered a cyanide pill, told it was candy by a known conman and liar, and ate it despite us all shouting, "It's cyanide, don't be an idiot!"
It's one thing that Trump is doing all of that. What really hurts the trust and relationships is that nobody is fucking stopping him. And I'm not talking about revolution or something similar. There are no safety measures in the US for this situation or if there are, they are failing. Shouldn't it be the job of the NSA or another fancy agency to prevent him to act against the interests of the nation?
I agree that the part that is really messed up is that no one is stopping this.
The Americans sold their nation for the promise of cheap eggs and an ethnostate.
And being "strong/great" again ... whatever that's supposed to mean.
The vagaries of Trump's brain are indecipherable.
Hell say whatever he thinks he needs to to scam you out of a dollar.
It's all because of propaganda. They live in an entirely different world that is not reality. I'm surrounded by conservative voters where I live and most of them say "I haven't heard about that" whenever I mention a new outrage that's in the news that I see. I think it's their way of saying "I don't believe you".
When I talked to a couple of them about the zelensky oval office fiasco one response was "well I heard that zelensky called Vance a bitch in the meeting". I pointed out that he was lied to and that the whole thing was recorded and that never happened, but I would bet money that they still believe that lie over me. Another response was the Russian propaganda that zelensky is a dictator. There is no reasoning with them. They don't care about what reality is. They only believe in what makes them feel good and feeds their pride and ego. I've tried having rational discussions, but it always ends with them saying "I can't articulate why you're wrong, but I disagree with you". If you can't articulate something maybe that means you don't understand it enough and should reevaluate your conclusions, but they won't because it would hurt their pride. God damnit I'm am so far beyond frustrated with them.
Yeah.
I'm... done with my fellow Americans at this point.