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I actually do.
We're entirely fucked.
We're going to spend the rest of our lives witnessing the enshitification of this nation. Even if we completely turn this crash and burn around, we'll then spend the rest of our lives watching things being slowly rebuilt as traitorous Republicans continue to obstruct.
I don't think a lot of Americans are grasping exactly how hard we fucked ourselves by refusing to responsibly inform ourselves even to a minimal degree.
a purge could fix it all tomorrow.
As much as I agree, it will take things getting a lot worse before people do anything like that. A lot of the most heavily armed are the ones who voted for this. The pickup full of hillbillies are still in the denial phase. They still think things won't affect them, or that it'll be temporary. They are all for "those people" taking the brunt of the actions right now. They've convinced themselves that only the "libtards" are affected, and they aren't.
It's going to take a deep hit to their way of life for anything more than peaceful protests and voting advocacy (which definitely fucking vote) happens.
As someone currently living in Canada, the US is badly fucking up a lot of it's international relations too. I've heard several people here say that even if if the US unfucks itself right away (which it won't), it's still going to be a long time before things will be right again.
You don't go around threatening neighbours and allies like this and then expect to be able to just walk it back overnight.
USAID was, more than anything, a means of positive international relations. It was a 2 prong approach of foreign aid and foreign good will. The mid 1900s US made a lot of fucking enemies, and USAID was one very solid method of trying to overcome the damage wrought by our government.
And now TB supplies – that were already paid for – are rotting in warehouses (among many other issues). Not only will that harm people, it will harm our reputation, AND increase antibiotic resistant TB, which will in turn affect the rest of the world including the US itself.
And that's only one piece of the very large clusterfuck.
Oh I know. I hate it because a) I love yall, Canadians, Danes, Germans opposed to the afd, etc. You're our friends and neighbors and I'm horrified seeing people not treat you as such, but also b) we had a real good thing going and we're never getting it back.
We entirely are. Our lifetimes in this country will never see another good day of it.