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The country was seen as a symbol of freedom for the people, a symbol for democracy and a place where anybody can "make it". Seeing it being torn to pieces in the last 4 years has been heartbreaking to say the least.
As a kid, I used to believe this stuff was genuine, but I've come to realize it's little more than PR (PR is what we call Propaganda when it's a country we like). It's very disappointing.
Another big thing I've come to realize is that Trump isn't just some recent aberration that popped up over the last few years. He's just the logical conclusion to the modern Republican party which literally started as a backlash to the Civil Rights movement.
Republicans will lose purely on demographics as time passes and they know it, so I think a lot of them are perfectly willing to turn to dictatorship to get what they've always wanted. A whiter, more "Christian"(in name only, we prefer supply-side Jesus to the real one here) America.
Part of me wants to believe this is just Russian propaganda being spread on the internet and things really aren't half as bad over there but i highly doubt it.
While the Russian's definitely do spread propaganda here in America, I think we've done most of this damage to ourselves. Russia just gave us a nudge.
Like 90% of the propaganda here is homemade. It's so effective a chunk of our country is effectively delusional..
This isn't recent, our propaganda systems (Fox News, talk radio, Facebook, Far-Right publications, etc.) started kicking into high gear after Nixon's impeachment to protect future Republican presidents from being held accountable for crimes.
Democracy is dying in the USA and so is the freedom it is so famous for.
I'm still hopeful that as a population we can learn some lessons from Belarus and Ukraine and turn this around.
There's nothing here!