me_irl

Well, decisions have consequences, and the current situation is simply the result of a whole chain of decisions made by U.S. citizens. Above all, the decision to simply accept everything that is clearly making their lives worse and worse.

It’s certainly not the case that the current administration single-handedly ensured that the most serious crimes go unpunished. They’re just exploiting the existing system in a particularly shameless way. So shameless, in fact, that even those Americans who previously did nothing but wave their Stars and Stripes while rubber-stamping one neoliberal "reform" after another are now feeling a bit downcast as they realize that the U.S. is actually an absolute hellhole where only the rich enjoy a comfortable life.

Things will continue just as they are, and will even get worse, because no one is holding the "elites" in check. U.S. citizens will just accept this and keep saying that there’s nothing they can do about it. They’ll even continue to reject anyone who points out that they could fight back, because that person supposedly doesn’t understand the situation anyway and shows no sympathy for their oh-so-hopeless predicament...

Well, it’s about time people realized that the American Dream is a nightmare. Unfortunately, I don’t think they’ll draw any conclusions from this, even now.