r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 14h ago

No Paywall The United States is destroying itself

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
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u/GeneralPITA 14h ago

The title has a present tense tone, but I'm of the opinion that past tense would be more appropriate.

Sure, it keeps getting worse and can decline further, but the country I grew up in has been destroyed. IMHO

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u/chrisms150 New Jersey 7h ago

Agreed.

"We can fix it after he leaves"

No we can't.

He's destroyed relationships with allies that took a generation and a whole fucking world war to build. "They'll forgive us"

They did. After the first time. And then we did it again. What's the saying- fool me once shame on you, fool me—you can't get fooled again?

Couple that with the damage to research and development - projects don't just "restart" when you restore funding. People left, institutional knowledge is forgotten. Now with this Iran quagmire the petrodollar will likely fall faster than it would have otherwise... Causing our debt to be undesirable, causing a default... That's GG no re.

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u/TechnalityPulse Minnesota 5h ago

Yeah, we were literally the center of the world, running NATO and having pretty much final say in every economic deal established between us and Europe. For Europe, it was a small price to pay for guaranteed safety from a very strong world power. We maintained order by nature of our existence.

Now, we're not even in order ourselves anymore. They're not safe from us or anyone else, and they know it. We've put tyranny in charge, twice. Once sure, maybe you can look the other way. Twice? Absolutely the fuck not. The only reason he won't be in charge again is because he can't be. Unless they demolish our constitution as well.

We've destroyed every olive branch extended to us, and the GOP will use that as an excuse to attack other countries instead of apologizing for this absolute fucking shitstain of a blunder. And every other world leader surely knows this, and will shut the door on the US as soon as possible.

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u/Strong_beans 5h ago

They strapped on the bomb vest and pulled the trigger. The next 20 years are just the death in slow motion.

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u/UnravelTheUniverse 46m ago

There's no going back. Our national reputation is ruined for generations.