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The most fucked up part of all of this... When you see it for what it really is... You realize people/society are incredibly dumb. You realize we aren't what we were marketed to believe we were. And that even before trump society was just as dumb but naive about it. We see now the politicians are stupid as fuck and naive too. No better then anyone else on the human American spectrum. No one is going to save us. No one can save us. Pandoras box is open and people don't know what to do with themselves because they were taught to live a life for something we now understand is truthfully just bullshit. We shouldn't want it back because we know it's not real. But like drugs sex and alcohol, the people will numb themselves and beg for that pacified simple life back, the one where they could ignore reality and pretend people better than them actually have a handle on things. But we all know that's not reality, it's not okay, and something extremely fucked up is going on starting in America and expanding on grand global scale.
It's the naiveness that allowed this all to happen. The privilege and ability to assume we were too good for shit to hit the fan. We were proud as a nation about that naivety.
Now we know it's all bullshit and people here in america are like soggy cardboard spaghetti.
If you're not American, please be better than us Americans.... Don't pride the culture of escapism and arrogance. Be humans. Be authentic. Don't get distracted or manipulated by the drama they entice you with and the sides they use to divide you. It's all bullshit.
This isn't simply a failure of the Republican party, of left or right, of democracy, it's a failure of America's human culture. It will never be fixed by political bandaids. It is deeply engrained. It's a cultural and spiritual shift people should be seeking. If people want to start living right they should only take what they need and stay out of drama that is marketed to manipulate them.
At this point it's probably more helpful to just take a seat, have a drink and a smoke and watch the empire fall and hope it doesn't take you with it. Watching all the crooked people squirm in their evil dramatic pool of egos and sin. Letting them kill themselves off.
I agree with your stance, but would caution others outside the US to use us as warning to themselves, because this isn't an American thing, we're just the current train wreck. This is a human thing that's repeated in various ways again and again, and we should really do better than this. I don't know if it's too late for us in the US, but pay attention to your own houses, everyone else.
You speak a lot of truth. I will remind you that we just budgeted almost a trillion dollars to the US military. This is not an empire in decline yet, we are capable of so much more damage on our way out it isn't funny.