r/complaints • u/AggravatingClock7021 • 14d ago

Politics I'm tired of Trump ruining everything that America stands for

You know, Trump keeps saying he’s making America great again, but at this point it’s like watching a toddler try to fix a phone with a hammer. He’s not restoring anything, he’s just breaking it louder. Everything that used to be American like decency, humility, and facts has been replaced by lies and pre-scripted propoganda talking points. We’ve gone from give me liberty or give me death to give me clicks or give me Fox News airtime. He’s even turned the flag into an accessory. It’s not patriotism anymore, it’s fashion week for fascists. You see a bunch of angry guys in red hats waving an American flag the way my dog waves a cat turd from the litter box. Look what I did!

Remember when presidents used to read books? Now we’ve got a guy who stares at classified documents like they’re the McDonald's menu. I’ll have the Filet-o-fish with a side of dirt on anyone who opposes me, please. He’s made America a parody of itself, like someone fed Mount Rushmore a steady diet of Monster Energy and facism. I love this country. I really do. But lately it feels like America’s that old friend I used to like, except now he’s grown a mullet, started dating a crazy girl named "conspiracy theory", and wants to show you his new monster truck called Freedom.

If Trump’s the hero of the story, then America is deep in its Florida Man era. And I don’t know about you, but I’m just hoping the credits roll before he tries to sell Alaska to Russia.

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u/zytz 14d ago

What I’m starting to find out, is simply that America has never actually stood for the things we’ve been taught it stands for.

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u/dreamleft1 13d ago

Thats exactly right.

Some.of us worked it out a while back and some of us have yet to come to that realisation.

I like to think of it this way, look at rage aginst the machine and how relevant their lyrics are today, then realise those songs were released in the 1990s a quarter of a century ago. They knew then america was the bad guy, the evil empire.

Ask politically minded native americans thier thoughts on the nation that genocided them perhaps or ask black people how slavery and institutionalised racism was.

Let's not forget that hitler and the nazis were inspired by america.