Hi, American here. I just wanted to take this time to say sorry about…you know…everything.
Our country is not ok right now. We’re going through some shit. And I look at other countries and hope they don’t think that all of us support this nonsense.
It’s bad enough that I don’t even have to specify WHAT has gone wrong. I have to appologize for our current general existence.
I can’t even say this isn’t who we are either. Right now our biggest issues are racism, dumb fucks, and lack of empathy towards others.
…yeah, that just sounds like historically accurate America. We’ve always been this way. It’s just especially bad right now.
So to the rest of the world, sorry about our existence.
Somehow it seems people outside the U.S. think we Americans have been just hanging out over here not pressing the big red “take the country back from the fascists” button that’s sitting right there.
The U.S. is not a democracy, people. Hasn’t been for a long time. If it ever was.
There’s no legal way to recall most politicians. That leaves the citizens with 2 options: wait till the next election and hope it happens and is respected and is actually a change in power enough to reign in the BS (which is difficult when half the voting population gets their news from a very limited source who constantly lies and the other half is engaged in ideological debates about compromise and whether people should even vote in a democracy); or use the 3rd box.
There quite literally is nothing the citizens can do for the next couple of years besides a revolution–and there’s an almost non-existent chance that succeeds without basically the entire country engaging in unified agreement.
The fed is disappearing people because of the color of their skin. Imagine what they would do if an armed group were to actually pose a threat. They routinely turn the sky to fire overseas and have bombed Americans for wanting to have weekends. With Trump in complete charge now (who’s already deployed the military domestically to “clean up” like 1 city block) there’s no reason the US won’t viscously attack her people again at the slightest provocation.
kind of feels like the rest of the world is begging and pleading for us to do the thing we said we do when our government is usurped by tyrants