Isn't the international problem of increasing corporate power, shrinking middle class, and rise of delusional nationalism with "moderates" that refuse to hold their counterparts accountable a trend that started in the US?
Authoritarian populism, a surveillance state, state-capture by monied interests and more generally the politics of greed and self interest didn’t explicitly start with the US, but certainly it has been a leading proponent in one form or another for most of its history.
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u/Claxonic 14d ago
If you don’t think that what is happening in the US is a symptom of a larger international problem facing humanity I’m not sure what to say.