Every day now, when the USAians log on, I feel a weird mixture of sad and irritated. They're in a bad way, but they talk about it as if the whole world has gone wrong. It didn't. One very loud country has been falling apart for decades, and it just slid off the edge from "bad" to "horrible", just like Turkey and India and a few other much more idealistic democracies have done.
Everyone else saw this coming. It's not surprising or special. It is awful, and there are good folks in danger now, and there will be IDPs and refugees. But I can't help thinking that the firm conviction among many USAians that it is a special place, politically, a uniquely wonderful project in inclusive democracy - that arrogance in itself is both why so many USAians are so surprised, but also (at least partly) why this ugly Christian nationalism has been so successful.
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Something to think about.
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@yetiinabox We are not "USAians". That is not a word. Stop it.
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