At this point, it seems as if the US government does not want to be legitimate. It'd prefer by far to be predictable - and those pesky voters keep on choosing the wrong candidate for that!
This all seems to feed into this "managed decline" mantra that's completely captured my government and yours, convincing the both of them that the government's role is to quietly and efficiency put our nations out of business for the benefit of every other human on the planet, our own wishes be damned.
Who cares about being legitimate? People are glued to their TV to watch the big game and chomp down on Doritos with cholesterol and hypertension med chasers. Will other countries stop trading with the US, or refuse to recognize the government, or treat them like they deserve? No.
The theft happened in front of everyone's eyes. The people who are honored with special holidays, honors, perks, connections, even sacred graves for joining a volunteer military, whose job it is to stop exactly this, shrugged and did nothing: "It's just a job." And anyone who even dared to march against it is now in solitary confinement in cells with toilets backing up raw sewage and black mold covering the walls.
And without that critical mass of people willing to do something, the number of people to shift such operations from suicide missions to something with an actual chance of success, it will never get solved.
At this point, it seems as if the US government does not want to be legitimate. It'd prefer by far to be predictable - and those pesky voters keep on choosing the wrong candidate for that!
This all seems to feed into this "managed decline" mantra that's completely captured my government and yours, convincing the both of them that the government's role is to quietly and efficiency put our nations out of business for the benefit of every other human on the planet, our own wishes be damned.
Who cares about being legitimate? People are glued to their TV to watch the big game and chomp down on Doritos with cholesterol and hypertension med chasers. Will other countries stop trading with the US, or refuse to recognize the government, or treat them like they deserve? No.
The theft happened in front of everyone's eyes. The people who are honored with special holidays, honors, perks, connections, even sacred graves for joining a volunteer military, whose job it is to stop exactly this, shrugged and did nothing: "It's just a job." And anyone who even dared to march against it is now in solitary confinement in cells with toilets backing up raw sewage and black mold covering the walls.
And without that critical mass of people willing to do something, the number of people to shift such operations from suicide missions to something with an actual chance of success, it will never get solved.