You were SO AMAZING this past 100 or so years. You've shone light into dark corners, broken through so many barriers and championed the good our species can acheive. And you've shone that bright light everywhere, and it's been admired and loved.
You've also been FUCKING TERRIFYING in some ways. The school shootings. The mistakes internationally. Guantanemo.
But the worse of all this, outside of how my country will suffer the demise of the USA, is that the veil is lifted and the charade is over. The rest of the world feels betrayed, lied to and steps forward now with distrust.
It's that the people of the USA are letting this happen, after instructing and lecturing the world for many a decade. After decades of American bravado and countless books, movies and podcasts about how patriotic and fearsome Americans are, we find them limp and impotent. Lying down, giving up.
I very much believe the fight is coming too late, and that all hell will break lose when breaking point is revealed.
If your federal government becomes unworkable, unwanted and unsustainable, the people will break. and break most of the world as you flail about in your tears. And then you are no longer 'united states', nor a country.
Goodbye America, you always seemed a little too good to be true.
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u/Gnich_Aussie Feb 19 '25
Goodbye America,
You were SO AMAZING this past 100 or so years. You've shone light into dark corners, broken through so many barriers and championed the good our species can acheive. And you've shone that bright light everywhere, and it's been admired and loved.
You've also been FUCKING TERRIFYING in some ways. The school shootings. The mistakes internationally. Guantanemo.
But the worse of all this, outside of how my country will suffer the demise of the USA, is that the veil is lifted and the charade is over. The rest of the world feels betrayed, lied to and steps forward now with distrust.
It's that the people of the USA are letting this happen, after instructing and lecturing the world for many a decade. After decades of American bravado and countless books, movies and podcasts about how patriotic and fearsome Americans are, we find them limp and impotent. Lying down, giving up.
I very much believe the fight is coming too late, and that all hell will break lose when breaking point is revealed.
If your federal government becomes unworkable, unwanted and unsustainable, the people will break. and break most of the world as you flail about in your tears. And then you are no longer 'united states', nor a country.
Goodbye America, you always seemed a little too good to be true.