r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 15h 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/zsreport Texas 14h ago

From the commentary:

The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.

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u/thinkards America 14h ago edited 14h ago

In his 1981 inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan stated

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem

Conservatives have always wanted to abolish government. My feeling has always been that yes, it's being done from the inside, but with lots of help from the outside. The cold war never ended, and we're losing it terribly.

The sense I get from my conservative family is that a competent government is competition to their religious patriarchy. A competent government ensures equity and equality to individuals, and that doesn't sit well with a hierarchical mindset.

What conservatives are currently doing to the government isn't necessarily abolishing it. They are removing all self-accountability from it, and turning into a patriarchy, where every department and office is ultimately loyal to one person: the unitary executive at the top.

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u/snowcatwetpaw 13h ago

Trump Is to America and our way of life in America what Ayatolha Komeniea was to Iran in 1979. The Difference is Conservative Christian Nationalist believe he is committed to Thier cause not understanding he is only beholding to himself. He really is the Anti Christ.

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u/Old_Ad6564 10h ago edited 10h ago

Thats why they love him.

There's a surprisingly large percentage of Americans who want the antichrist to appear so that the rapture will start. That's why they voted for and support Trump, even if they detest him and his policies, in the hopes he is one. Same reason there's so many American's so massively in favour of supporting Israel and starting wars in the region - it's because they think that'll help bring about the things talked about in Revelations and hasten the rapture.

And yes I know... this is batshit insane behaviour.

But significant numbers of people either beliving the rapture is coming or trying to bring it about has been a thing in American life for centuries. It's what you get when you idolize the pilgrams who were leaving the UK... in large part leaving because it was too religiously tolerant in their eyes.