We Are Hated as a Nation. There’s One Man to Blame.
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Nope, there’s the Republican party and thier donors that are traitors to the United States of America!
I don’t know…we’ve been hated by LOADS of people across the globe for AGES now.
To this degree and this universally though? Yeah, this is fresh and new.
“We are hated as a nation now. One man has done this.”
Bull. Shit. I respect Charlie Pierce, but, Bull. Shit.
The vast majority of our free-willed grown-ass adult society is to blame.
Republican voters, non-voters, and third party voters = 70% of our free-willed grown-ass adult public.
They did this. And not only did they do this, they did this after already touching the hot stove once.
Trump did not fall out of the sky and impose himself on us. Our society did this and our society enables this.
We deserve the hate, and blaming one shiny object at the top is a pathetic way of coddling the very people who are to blame.
These 70% of Americans? The stupidest and most privileged people to ever walk the face of the earth. They’ll still be here when Trump is gone.
He may be the face but we are all to blame.
I wonder what an America that happily punished the confederate leadership instead of deciding to set a precedent of letting rich and/or powerful people get away with their crimes would look like today.
Trump didn’t help, but I disagree that “one man is to blame”. He’s just another part of the snowball of terrible decisions that got us here. Plenty of people disliked America before Trump came along.
Hell, I was born in the US and am going on 40 and I genuinely can’t think of a time when I’ve ever liked this place enough to feel even remotely patriotic about it; even more-so after I started to travel in my 20s and lived abroad for a few years.
I mean, alternatively there is 77 million, 302 thousand, 580 people to blame.
It is all about how you look at it.
I mean sure, Trump is a corrupt, lying, racist rapist, but he did get more than just his own vote. And we knew all that WELL before the election. We knew that before the 2016 election.
So when you elect a Corrupt, lying, racist rapist as President, and nobody likes him because he is a corrupt, lying, racist rapist, I am not sure he is the only person we should be blaming here. I mean sure, he is certainly one person we should be blaming. But I am not convinced he is the only one.
the entire GOP pedo protectors are to blame
It’s cute trying to pin everything on one man, who is just a visible symptom of a much deeper disease which will continue to rot the entire country the longer it goes unaddressed.
No. He’s a trigger point and making it all worse, of course, but a lot of us hate a lot of things about you without him.
He’s been pretty open about what a shit person he is – he didn’t win the election by one vote. 10’s of millions voted for him.
There’s an entire nation to blame and will be deservedly blamed for generations to come
No – there’s lots of incompetent folks to blame in congress as well.
Self inflicted. Letting some rich people becoming wealthy to the point of insanity, growing god syndrom, ready to overthrow civilization while using the worst and dirtiest buffon ever know in history.
And the whole world would have to pay the price for this insanity?
The USA is hated because its NOT just Trump, actually.
If you guys elected a golden retriever to lead you, I wouldn’t blame the dog.
Nope. Everyone who supports him, voted for him, or was a registered voter that sat out the last election out of laziness or apathy are the ones to blame for our country being hated right now.
* and anyone who voted for him
very wrong. The republicans in congress continue to enable him to trample on the constitution. They are equally to blame, and realistically MORE to blame because they (most of them anyways) don’t have dementia
Nah the entire Republican Party gets a lot of blame
Well that’s just dumb. There are about 75,000,000 people to blame.
Republicans are to blame, centrist democrats are to blame, people who did not vote are to blame.
The world isn’t buying this shit anymore. Everyone knows it’s not just Trump. America is a sick society that cannot be trusted, now or in the future
The fact that with all the chaos that’s being caused by the US and Trump, that the midterms will still be *close* tells me everything need to know about Americans and their so-called values.
There are millions to blame
Nah, I’m definitely blaming the people that voted for him. I’m also blaming the people that enable him.
The USA is not like this because Donald Trump was elected president.
Donald Trump was elected president because the USA is like this.
Trump is the most god awful person on Earth, but he is enabled by the entire GOP and an apathetic selfish American public. There’s been plenty of chances to stop Trump and no one has been successful. Right now, today, Congress, lead by Republicans, could put an end to this insanity.
I want a sleepy do-nothing president and congress again. I miss a predictable, reliable government. This shit is a fucked up mess.
This is such misdirection.
The entire Republican party is to blame.
They behave this way every time they take control of the federal government.
Trump is Frankenstein’s monster.
The Republican Party is Victor Frankenstein.
If we get rid of the monster, the mad scientist will just create another.
We have a hell if a lot more assholes than him unfortunately. Hes just one of the spokespeople
Oh, there’s far more than one man to blame. All of the crazy & wildly damaging parts of Trumps agenda could immediately come to an end if just a small amount of Republican legislators join with the vast majority of Democrat legislators to pass laws or remove him from office.
The Republican party is entirely complicit in this and also fully responsible for the blame.
As much as I hate Trump, he is not the only one to blame. He is a symptom of a much larger cancer that has taken form in America.
No no no no no. That’s not how that works.
I can think of 77 million reasons why we are despised as a nation.
Trump is the symptom of a much larger problem in America. Yes he was able to mobilize people behind a movement, but that movement was always hidden in plan sight, ripe for the taking.
Nah America has been hated for some time. Consider Vietnam, Iraq etc you lot don’t care how badly your foreign policy affects the world. You just care that you put a competent face to it.
I’m so tired of people deluding themselves into thinking this is a one man issue and not a “system that has been co-opted by rich people into being fucked up beyond repair” issue.
Hmm, not just one man, all nations have disgusting rich and influential bullies – but not all nations vote for them repeatedly for them to destroy historical friendships and start threatening and blackmailing their most loyal allies. Not just one man, bloody hell!
Don’t put it all on him. Millions of voters and spineless politicians helped.
I didn’t know the millions of hateful idiots in this country counted as one man
As an outsider (Canadian) I couldn’t disagree more. Every single person who voted for that lunatic and every Republican who continues to enable him can go fuck themselves.
One man? Why are you downplaying the responsibility of the voters in a Democracy, Charles P. Pierce? Why are you acting like there isn’t a huge government apparatus that aids and abets his actions? Why are you pretending there isn’t a rotten to the core culture among GOP voters?
Blaming one man let’s off the millions who allowed it to happen.
Nah, dude. It’s the constant blame shifting and lack of accountability from literally everyone. All the dumb fucks all, ‘there’s nothing I can do I will die of dysentery if I miss a day of work to protest’ and, ‘give me detailed step by step instructions on how to reclaim my country that involve no risk or sacrifice on my part. If you don’t, I blame YOU for my failing democracy’ that piss us off.
The ones that come to country subs all, ‘I’m so sorry I’m one of the good ones please validate me’ deserve special mention for obnoxiousness.
Trump is a symptom, not the reason.
I’m not American, and obviously Trump is a piece of shit, but in one way I’m *glad* he came though.
He’s taken the lid off how America works – even if his version of it is extreme and less “sophisticated”.
– Kowtowing to Israel and the Israel lobby
– Bullying of other nations
– Interventionist policies in the affairs of other countries etc
– its two-tiered, internal, justice system
– its broken electoral system it refuses to fix
– the heavy, heavy propaganda against so-called “socialism”
– American exceptionalism
I think Trump has woken up a lot of people to the “reality” of America both inside the US and across the globe.
TWICE American citizens have elected ACTORS to the position and both times have been devastating for the rest of the West (Reagan’s tax and economic policies have made things materially worse for workers the world over).
Don’t dump this at Trump’s feet or the feet of people who voted for him. They’re symptoms.
The problem runs much deeper and still exists if it’s Obama in the White House.
No, that’s a bit too easy.
Bullshit one man, I blame all 77 million voters and nearly 90 million eligible non-voters. The collapse of your country (and the evil it does) lays squarely on your shoulders
Wrong. Trump is a symptom. The Disease is American capitalism .