As a 40yo Canadian, I’ve always loathed America and what they stood for on the Global scale. The global police, the central trading partners of everyone despite offering nothing, having the primary metric of the global economy… But I never hated Americans. I always had a tremendous amount of respect for the kindness of your average American despite what their country does to the world.
The Trump happened and watching 2/3rds of the American Population either voting for it or being completely complacent on it (not voting at all) shows how much the average American cares not only about their own countrymen but human beings all over the globe.
I never had a lot of respect for America. I no longer have respect for Americans either.
It was so shocking when he won. We really didn’t know how racist and sexist Americans could be when given the choice.
I do blame the Democratic establishment to a large degree for offering hurting Americans literally nothing, but I didn’t think they’d choose… that, over nothing.
The nicest thing I can say about it is at least it shows Americans want radical change.
America is built on white supremacy from its founding. The whole world just fell for American exceptionalism propaganda.
But with that said, people tried kind, left-wing populism first with Bernie. That was blocked (random source, sorry if it sucks). Right-wing populism is beneficial to the oligarchs who own both political parties, so Trump wasn’t blocked.
We really didn’t know how racist and sexist Americans could be when given the choice.
That’s really the crux of it all isn’t it? When given a Presidential Candidate who was overtly racist, hateful, made fun of disabled people, immigrants, and punching down at every mariginalized group in North America and the majority of the American people literally watched that and said “I’m either okay with this, or excited about it” really shows how Americans as a people are. They were just a bunch of racist, hateful people the whole time until Trump gave them the avenue to be their true selves.
No I’ve grown to dislike America because of the rot trump embodies
As a 40yo Canadian, I’ve always loathed America and what they stood for on the Global scale. The global police, the central trading partners of everyone despite offering nothing, having the primary metric of the global economy… But I never hated Americans. I always had a tremendous amount of respect for the kindness of your average American despite what their country does to the world.
The Trump happened and watching 2/3rds of the American Population either voting for it or being completely complacent on it (not voting at all) shows how much the average American cares not only about their own countrymen but human beings all over the globe.
I never had a lot of respect for America. I no longer have respect for Americans either.
It was so shocking when he won. We really didn’t know how racist and sexist Americans could be when given the choice.
I do blame the Democratic establishment to a large degree for offering hurting Americans literally nothing, but I didn’t think they’d choose… that, over nothing.
The nicest thing I can say about it is at least it shows Americans want radical change.
America is built on white supremacy from its founding. The whole world just fell for American exceptionalism propaganda.
But with that said, people tried kind, left-wing populism first with Bernie. That was blocked (random source, sorry if it sucks). Right-wing populism is beneficial to the oligarchs who own both political parties, so Trump wasn’t blocked.
That’s really the crux of it all isn’t it? When given a Presidential Candidate who was overtly racist, hateful, made fun of disabled people, immigrants, and punching down at every mariginalized group in North America and the majority of the American people literally watched that and said “I’m either okay with this, or excited about it” really shows how Americans as a people are. They were just a bunch of racist, hateful people the whole time until Trump gave them the avenue to be their true selves.
Bush II and my high school experience. Jingoism and anti intellectualism was taught at that school.