I think the scoreboard revisionist history is sick. Did Americans single handedly save the world with a WW2 victory of Germany? No, of course not. But, I also resent the "we could have won without you" b.s. too. It's disrespectful to everyone who fought. I mean, nobody in this Reddit thread did a damn thing either way. WW2 was over decades before most of us were born.
Truth is, yeah, Americans of voting age are all responsible for the sh..show in D.C. right now. It's a monstrosity. Shame on all of us for letting it happen. We have an administration obvs under the thumb of Putin, turning our backs on current allies for no apparent reason. For that, we definitely owe an apology to the world.
I have a degree in political science. One of the biggest issues in the American system is that it assumes a lack of abundant malice from within. And I guess any system could say that- as when it appears, it is a good sign that the system has failed and it is time to move forward.
However, unlike most western systems, we don't have proportional representation or votes of no confidence. We don't have normalized civic education. We have insane stereotypes and they are propagated by politics. We have a huge left base in the country that has nobody to vote for. We have a massive population that forget that this country was founded on being left as hell, the most in the world. We have tons of people who have grandparents just fucking desperate to come back just to fuck up their jawlines for how they voted.
Without preportional representation, American have the choice of voting right, radical right, or "throwing their vote away.". Ita fucked. Nobody has a voice, and if the system is not completely changed in the next decade I think the United States with either have a new civil war or become a technocrat hegemon.
I live in Detroit. I have so many Canadian friends. My heritage can be traced all over but the central point before here is quebeçois. I love you all, and you have been great to us. Windsor craigslist is fucking horny as shit for some reason. You are right to be suspicious. But goddamn, it takes a LOT to drop everything. If I decide it is too much, please let me move 10 miles south and be a Canadian.
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u/suddendearth 14d ago
American here. Nah I get it. It's stupid AF. You're right to rag on us. I hate this shit.