I’m interested to hear from people around the world on a few subjects. Answer as many questions as you like.
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What country are you from?
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In general, what do you think of the USA?
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Has this viewpoint changed over the last few years?
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On a global scale, how you think the actions of the USA will play out over the next few years.
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How has the US actions affected you personally this last year?
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Anything else you want to add.
Canada
The USA was born out of genocide, grew through slavery, and has continued to prosper by economic and military exploitation of every country they can. They are an oligarchy now, and always have been. Their constitution only allowed rich white males to have a say, and that has fundamentally not changed in 250 years.
This viewpoint has only become more clear and undeniable over the last few years.
The destruction of the U.S. empire will accelerate as they stab more of their allies in the back.
I have family and friends in the U.S. that I will never be able to see again.
I have seen the steady rise of fascism in the U.S. since the assassinations of the Kennedys, MLK, Malcolm and all the black nationalist leaders, Nixon’s killing students, Reagan and the Bushs arming Contras and Al Queda, the systematic oppression and destruction of labor unions and the middle class, the consolidation of all power into the corporations’ hands. We are seeing the mask drop further now, but the dead skull of imperialism has been there for everyone to see, even when the blue faction is in office. They all serve capitalism, and not the people.
Yank here. I would rebut by pointing out that Canada has bloodied its hands on Native Canadians and participated in American imperialism as a toady. But honestly? It would nakedly be the pot calling the kettle black. And the kettle’s at least started scrubbing off the char.
I plan to keep fighting my government, any way I can. But I feel so isolated and desperately outmanned and outgunned. Other nations that have successfully overthrown their oppressors didn’t have to battle the surveillance and military industrial complex up close and in its own house. As awful as our abusers-in-chief have been to the world, people tend to forget that the first ones they every abused were us. It’s the difference between growing up next door to the abusive psychotic gun-waving alcoholic father and being their child. He doesn’t even have to get off the couch to beat us.
It feels like suicide to fight back, but the few of us who have humanity left are doing it anyway, even though we know that we don’t have a chance. Not unless a chunk of our military decides to exercise an iota of independent thought and remember that part of their oath and a heap of our national myth was meant to give them permission to shoot the President himself if it came down to it.
Please, save us. I’m begging you, save us however you can. We’re already suffering. It’s going to get worse no matter what we do at this point, so fight them while we have time. Please.
Yes, the racism in Canada is still all too obvious and certainly pervasive. We up here have just not been given the OK to exercise it openly like you guys down there.
I would say the only thing that will stop it is mass non-cooperation. Those in power still need (at least for now) workers to run their shit, and consumers to buy their shit. Join the general strike, prepare for many more. Talk to neighbors, friends, family. Organize, learn simple sabotage.
The people, united, will never be defeated. The machine will grind to a stop when enough people say ENOUGH! and stop funding and participating in it.
and ethnic cleansing, of indigenous americans, then slavery of africans.
“…born out of genocide, grew through slavery” yep.
and then exploiting asians and other pocs for the railroad industry
Capitalism by its very nature continues to exist through the exploitation of workers. The outrages and abuses of the railroad industry have been matched by mining, textiles, farming, Amazon warehouses and delivery, and tech oligarchs that demand 24/7 availability of their workers. Organizing is the only antidote.