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Decades... fuck that, an entire lifetime of work to foster a strong transatlantic relationship has been undone by white nationalist christo-fascists and their demantia riddled geriatric figurehead. Disgusting.
Never forget that Trump didn’t appear out of thin air, this is what Americans as a whole decided they wanted.
That's an oversimplification of what has been an ongoing campaign to perform a slow coup and brainwash a significant part of the population. It is also untrue. Setting the propaganda aside (which has been progressing since the 1980s), the Republicans have been worming and cheating through local politics in order to create a situation where, even when they and their policies are deeply unpopular, and fail to garner popular support, they still win elections.
Decades of destroying our education system and rigging our first past the post system in their favor. Our politics are fucked because our political systems are fucked and have disenfranchised our voters.
The classic example is Texas and the gerrymandering of Austin (seriously, look at that map, it's disgusting and it's going ti be worse now). Republicans have done such a good job that out of 23.2 million eligible voters, less than half even bother to vote (11 in 2024).
*what the rich Americans decided and made the herd follow.
Did all Russians as a whole decide what they want? All Chinese?
This is a gross oversimplification.
It is and it isn’t.
Not EVERY American wanted this, but the electoral system and voters did.
The point is as a nation that has to deal with the US, this is what the people have given us, and we should assume that they’ll continue voting this way.
There were always cracks in the relationship, now they're just in the clear.
e.g. Hague Invasion Act