| collint0101 said: Between the USA leaving the Paris climate accords, a trade war with China and the EU, our inhumane policies in regards to immigration, leaving the human rights council and the death of net neutrality. I really fail to understand how anyone is happy with the current state of American politics. Who even benefits from any of this? At least for something like a tax cut I can say "I don't agree with it but I can understand why someone would want this" but with a lot of the controversies surrounding trump I'm just baffled as to how anyone can say we are better off as a nation. |
Exactly. And it's not even just that in my mind. We're not even 18 months into Trump's tenure and already this is the state of affairs. Where will be by the THEORETICAL end of Trump's tenure in 2025? (I say theoretical because I observe an exceptionally low level of respect for the rule of law on the part of the current administration.) Will we still be in the UN at all, for example? What legal protections will we have left? I mean I find that leaders who want to isolate their country from the rest of the world tend to have reasons for wanting to.
If we're willing to set up concentration camps for asylum seekers and their toddlers, does that program necessarily end with that group, or will it be just the first and most obvious? What other groups might be targeted by the end of another 6 and a half years? Oh say political dissidents in general, maybe?
I never buy for a second the reassurances people often offer me that "that can't happen here". It most certainly can, folks, and this growing list of isolationist policies should set off alarm bells in that connection.
