• Enkrod@feddit.org
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    13 hours ago

    When France and Germany did not follow the US under G. W. Bush into Iraq in 2003, the language used did not differ significantly from the language about not following the US into the Straight of Hormuz.

    Obama had SOOO MUCH to make up for and wasn’t able to rehabilitate the image of the US… and then everything got EVEN WORSE!

    You’ve been like this AT LEAST since Regan. Trump is not the cause, he is a SYMPTOM of a sickness that has festered for AT LEAST 45 years, not only in your politics but in american society.

    I imagine it’ll take about the same amount of time to change the american people back into a nation that can be respected instead of feared and loathed.

    Trump is nothing, he’s unimportant in the grand scheme of things. The real enemy is the mindset of a majority (republican or democrat) of americans.

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      Trump is nothing, he’s unimportant in the grand scheme of things

      The USA isn’t the way it is because Trump is the president, Trump is president because of the way the USA is…

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      That sickness has festered ever since Lincoln’s assassination derailed Reconstruction, and allowed Confederate humiliation to simmer for 150 years