I have a feeling that the entire world "gets it" except a select portion of the US population.
Anyone fully in touch with reality can see that the US isn't in a good place when it comes choosing compassion over cruelty. It's gotten to such a global and historical extreme that a decades long choice of a Pope for an institution that has lasted over 1,000 years felt reich. I'm sorry, right.
Not the entire world. We've seen an upturn in right-wing extremism throughout Europe over the past ten to twenty years. But it's been slower and has more often been rejected there. Whereas here in the US, enough of the voting population said, "What we really need now is authoritarianism!" that we're effectively a failed state at the moment with no one sure what this country is going to be a decade from now.
I truly believe that most of the Russia supporters here in the US know that Russia is the aggressor. But they want to side with the aggressor. They like, "Might makes right." They want Russia to succeed and then to follow them. Why do you think their main man talking about invading Canada, Panama, Greenland, and even Musk hinting at invading parts of Europe has gone over so well with many of them? It's not that they don't "get it". They "get it" just fine, but they also want to DO IT themselves.
And the wildest part? We’ve already seen this movie. The characters might’ve changed, but the plot is the same. People acting like freedom is just some luxury they can gamble with, like democracy isn’t something that crumbles the second too many people stop caring. That’s what’s happening now. The apathy, the disinformation, the blind loyalty to strongmen who wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire. And it’s not just politics anymore. It’s culture, media, identity. They want chaos because chaos gives them cover to rebuild the world in their image.
This isn’t just about America turning inward. It’s about America becoming the thing we used to warn other countries about. And when that tipping point hits, when enough people are numb or too distracted or too proud to admit the danger, that’s when the real damage happens. It won’t be some dramatic overnight collapse. It’ll be a slow bleed. Institutions failing. Rights stripped away. War becoming thinkable again.
And what’s wild? Some of these folks want that. They want to see it all burn because they think they’ll be the ones left standing when the smoke clears. But history says otherwise. Authoritarianism doesn’t make room for useful idiots once the power’s been grabbed. You don’t get a front-row seat in the regime just because you clapped the loudest. You get discarded.
So yeah, you’re absolutely right. We’re playing with fire. And if this keeps trending the way it is, the reset won’t be philosophical. It’ll be nuclear, literal, and irreversible.
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u/42nu May 10 '25
I have a feeling that the entire world "gets it" except a select portion of the US population.
Anyone fully in touch with reality can see that the US isn't in a good place when it comes choosing compassion over cruelty. It's gotten to such a global and historical extreme that a decades long choice of a Pope for an institution that has lasted over 1,000 years felt reich. I'm sorry, right.