The Cold War? Child’s play compared to what lies ahead, according to U.S. historian Robert Kagan. Trump, he says, is leading the world into the most dangerous era since 1945.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    The last decade has made it abundantly clear how weak America actually is.

    Growing up I just assumed we would stomp this kind of shit out real fast. Instead we’re bending over and letting an almost dead felon rapist pedophile fuck our country and our futures up. We’re allowing a clearly treasonous party to abdicate all their responsibilities to a fat creep that falls asleep and shits his pants during official duties.

    It’s truly pathetic.

    Don’t think I’ll be able to muster up much patriotism for this shithole for the remainder of my life.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s interesting. It was pretty clear to me as a child, years ago, that this nation was fucked.

      It had, and has, potential, but is driving in the wrong direction, with blinders on.

      But I think it’s a perspective thing.

      Some people just don’t see it, cause they are doing fine in their fishbowls.

      Others have a twisted perspective and can’t tell what’s real and what’s not–even confuse what’s right in front of them, or biting them in the ass.

      There are people that see it, sure. And people who fight against it. But it’s a lot and they are few. So even with huge wins here or there the overall trajectory remains the same.

      It’s like the doomsday clock: it’s 5 second to midnight, maybe tomorrow it’ll move back to 10 seconds, but it’s unlikely to ever move back a minute, or an hour, or a day.

      And I’m an optimist.