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Trump is incredibly different from everything in your lifetime. You either haven't been paying attention, or your a frog in a pot and just didn't notice the temperature rising.

Did you miss the part where I said worse....?

things were never super great under either party but your country didn't collapse either. So you're expecting things to go on like that for the rest of your life.

It has been in perpetual decline for decades. Trump didn't just happen overnight, nor will America be ghosted overnight, Empires die slow deaths.

It rhymes with guys like Putin, Erdogan, Mussolini, and Hitler.

Not a fan of Putin or erdogan..... But I think falsely conflating them with Mussolini or Hitler is a bit much.

Americans won't stop him because of the false sense of complacency.

Fascism is rising in all western democracies as a response to late stage capitalism. It's not inherent to America, nor is from a false sense of complacency.

while Americans stick the sand, the rest of the world is noticing. And we don't see Trump as the cause of the problems, he's a symptom of the rot in American culture.

Yeah..... I don't think the fascist movements ballooning all over Europe have been made aware they appropriating American culture.

all hoped you would just vote for the black lady and things would have indeed gone back to normal. But that didn't happen. Americans either voted for fascism or were complacent about it as you are.

Lol, who said I didn't vote for as you said "the black lady"?

Trade will be routed around the US. Alliances with the US are just paper now, they're meaningless. The US will be isolated as Spain was under Franco.

I'm willing to bet the corporations in your country still care more about money than they do about policy. America still has a bunch of capital to swing around and in the end that's really what liberal democracies care about.

I think nations should boycot America, I just don't really expect them too.

You could've just voted in primaries and got some people in power that would tax the wealthy.

When did I say I didn't?

The US is the wealthiest country in the world, just the wealth didn't trickle down as Reagan told you it would. But if you thought being a wealthy country with a population indoctrinated into apathy on wealth distribution was bad?

Do you think everyone in America shares a hive mind or something?

The US is fucked and the rest of the world is trying to distance itself from you before it all collapses. But go on and keep thinking everything is going to keep on as it always has.

Again..... What do you think everything progressively getting worse means? What do you think a "collapse" actually means? How exactly is a country like Canada going to shield itself from a collapsing America when America is by far its largest trading party?

If you think this problem is just in America, or that canda doesn't have a problem with income inequality.... I really don't know what to tell you. This is just what happens to any nation who bases their economy on the idea that infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is possible.

Sinema was never going to play ball, she made it clear the moment she was elected, she was pretty much poor like mtg and boebart before being elected, shes a millionaire from all those donations now.

Good points, but the contention between branches is just kabuki theatre. It’s fake bro. There are always a rotating cast of “spoiler villains,” and if too many of them are facing reelection then they just make something up like “senate parliamentarian won’t let them.”

If the Dem president actually wanted to get something done then he’d use the bully pulpit like Trump does to make it so. This happened approximately 0 times during Biden’s 4 year slumber.

I've always bought up this sort of thing; but I've had to rethink it... not thar its wrong, but the executive orders that this (and many other presidents) sign which starts massive changes that don't go through Congress completely short circuit the process. Even if they eventually get overturned, it's typically way too late to go back to what was. It's a short cut to get things done that isn't popular and wouldn't have passed as a bill.

Much like destroying the east wing, you can't ever get things back you lost. People lose jobs, land gets torn up, foreign trust gets destroyed... it so much easier to sign an executive order, make a change that destroys that which took decades to build and then have it overturned. Then you say "well, congress has that power not the president" but it's too late.

Americans expect a lot from their Presidents. But the real problem is Congress.

I mean it's definitely both..... Congress has empowered the executive to an incredible degree, and this has been rarified by the judiciary.

Plus, most people ignore most elections other than when electing a new president. So your presidential candidate has a huge influence over the makeup and political agenda of Congress.

Okay, but the reason we have had centerist presidents is because that's as far left as the people running the government and the media were willing to go.

Eh... That's debatable. The modern democratic party being center right is kinda a byproduct of Thirdway politics. Which was largely popularized by the party leaders itself, specifically by the Clinton's.

Bill Clinton rose to power by advocating for compromise as a way to get through the growing gridlock in Congress. This worked for his career, but it gave the Republican party a huge amount of influence over defining what that middle ground was. They would work with Democratic candidates with policy that served their purposes and completely ignore the ones that served anyone left of center.

This had the overall effect of not only controlling policy in congress, but actually being able to vicariously control the opposition. As time went on the only people who reached seniority in the DNC were those who would compromise with the rnc to create a "mutually" beneficial policy.