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Wow, the US really is just a complete clown show - the usual ridiculousness has increased many times over since January, and so has the greed. But yet: there is hardly any serious resistance to the obvious establishment of a dictatorship. Well, the citizens are probably so used to living in an unjust state that they think it wouldn't make any difference.
For everyone else in the world, it probably won't really make a difference, except that they'll have to deal with another mentally ill despot. But I think that despite all the regime's open organized crime, despite its brutish violence, the majority of US citizens still don't understand what it means to live in a dictatorship.
We can only hope that the US will not resort to excessive use of its inflated military apparatus when the country inevitably continues to decline. Given the viciousness of the regime, this is unfortunately to be expected.
It would be great if the Americans could finally lock these criminals away, but to be honest, I gave up hope of that a long time ago.
I think you're underestimating the US' impact on the world. It could have severe destabilizing effects.
What do you expect to change for the world? The US has been a plutocracy for decades. Really not all too much difference to states like Russia - just another approach. The people in power did whatever they wanted to do for a very long time. Now they are just changing their modus operandi and giving up the pretense. Why? - well, because they can.
The only thing that worries me is that they could lose control over their straw man in the White House, but I think that's unlikely because he's much more like Hermann Göring than Adolf Hitler. He may be a hopeless narcissist, but he's so incredibly greedy that filthy lucre and indulging his perversions are probably more important to him than real power, because power means commitment, and he'd rather go golfing.