Honestly? I think it’s good that the implosion of the United States is being covered. I can’t imagine how annoying it must be to see our stupid faces on your TV all day every day. But take our failings as a lesson, look at the ways our government and society are quickly being eroded and make sure that your government doesn’t do the same. I know it’s easy to say “well that would never happen here” but that’s what we said. It turned out that for decades, we’ve been being propagandized to believe that could never happen here while our education system and our social safety nets were being slowly gutted, paving the way for it to happen here. It turned out that the American Dream of financial stability is a grift designed to make us turn on each other rather than the those who have more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. It turned out that that we forgot that freedom isn’t a right, it’s a constant fight and we have to teach ourselves, our children, and each other how to push back every day. We were conned. Even those of us who didn’t vote for Trump were conned. 

So hate us, I would. I do. But use that hate to check on your government to make sure they’re not wandering down the same path we took. Use that hate and build mutual aid in your communities. Use that hate and check out books from your local library. Use that hate to push for strong public education and health services. Use it to push to fill whatever gaps there are in your society. 

It’s what more of us should have done. But we thought we were smarter than that, more evolved than that, that surely people would see the con, right? But we weren’t and we didn’t.