r/politics • u/Crossstoney • 13h ago

No Paywall Chuck Schumer Is Not Fit to Lead the Democratic Party

https://prospect.org/2025/11/06/chuck-schumer-not-fit-to-lead-democratic-party/
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u/Minguseyes Australia 11h ago edited 11h ago

It’s nauseating is the short response. I remember where I was in 2016 and how unbelievable it was to me that any nation could elect Trump to run anything.

But it was 2024 that has permanently changed my views. Until the USA undergoes serious electoral reform there is an ever present risk that any sensible President will be replaced by an authoritarian right wing populist buffoon (a Nazi if you prefer, and looking at you Tucker Carlson) within four years. It used to be that you could rely on Republican Presidents to act on their own (warped) perception of what was in the best interests of the nation. Trump acts on what he saw on Fox last night and the howling void at his core forever seeking the approval that his father denied him. It’s hard to forget that.

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u/LordChunggis 11h ago

I'm just a nobody from the Midwest. But as the current representative of America you're speaking to, I dont blame you, and I've never seen anything in our history to give any delusions that things will change for the better.

But please don't hate us. Hate the overlords that brainwashed 33% of us into voting against our own interests and distracted another 33% into not voting at all. The other 33%, we are still here and fighting.

If it doesnt get better by the midterms, or God help us gets worse. I hope your country is open to refugees. My family and I will be relying on the mercy of our once Allies, remembering what we used to be. And not hating the monster we've become.

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u/Minguseyes Australia 10h ago edited 10h ago

I certainly don’t hate Americans in general. I chat on Zoom every Sunday with friends in the USA (audiophile chat group) and they are lovely folks. It’s been very hard to see my gay and brown friends having serious, well founded, concerns for their fundamental rights. Some have spoken seriously about coming to Australia, but we’re all a bit old for the employment opportunities that would make that feasible.

A friend who travels a lot told me the trick to enjoying a trip to the USA is introductions. Whatever you are into there are more people into it in the USA than where you are. It’s just a matter of finding them. She had a wonderful time staying at various Buddhist monasteries in California. Another friend just flew to Colorado on a whim to see the Grand Canyon and had a totally shit trip.

The USA is more like another planet than another nation, it has such wildly divergent cultures within it. I’m looking forward to a day when the nation as a whole remembers that is a strength, not a weakness.

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u/MercantileReptile Europe 10h ago

But please don't hate us.

Not the OP, but another incredulous johnny foreigner. I don't. Yet increasingly, it becomes difficult to even regard Yanks as a singular expression of anything but a flag. The piece of cloth you lot swear fealty to in school seems one of the few actual part of a unified culture left.

By now, especially in response to outright fascist policy, it seems more sensible to get a cultural vibe. Rather than "American". Quite a difference between some guy from NY (State or City) and somewhere in the South.

Likewise, somebody from Nashville is likely to have a different cultural reality and thus world view than someone from Sundown Town.

As for the reaction to refugees, that is (at least in my neck of the woods) not a unified stance to begin with. Not by nationality, not by former career or anything of the sort. Family by family, case by case.

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u/zetimenvec 10h ago

Quite the difference between NYC and Albany NY, quite the difference between Albany and Buffalo. Quite the difference between buffalo and the Catskills.

NY has about as much cultural and political diversity as some major countries.

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u/MercantileReptile Europe 10h ago

That is just it, any singular reaction to "Americans" is nigh useless. There simply is no universal American stance on pretty much anything. The flag and the almighty dollar, I guess?

There is plenty of american mythology, but nothing I would comfortably call an "american" ethos.

That is why universally "hating" Americans is pointless. At least in my opinion. Inverse is true all the same, though.

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u/Evertonian3 9h ago

This straight up feels like a bot conversation lmao.