The US had to come to this point. We couldnāt go on as we were, even under Democratic presidents. For 40 years, a narrow economic elite has been siphoning off ever more wealth and power.
Over the last 40 years, starting with Ronald Reagan, the US went off the rails: deregulation, privatization, free trade, wild gambling by Wall Street, union-busting, monopolization, record levels of inequality, stagnant wages for most, staggering wealth for a few, big money taking over our politics.
Americaās so-called āleadership classā is a sham. Most of them do not care a whit for the rest of the US. They are out for themselves.
The āfucking nightmareā is not over by any stretch. Itās likely to get worse in 2026 as Trump and his sycophants, and many of Americaās āleadersā, realize 2026 may be their last unrestrained year to inflict damage and siphon off the spoils.
Except itās not.
Our cultureās fixation on āendingsā is part of whatās killing our stake in the future. Nobody thinks they will live past 40. Nobody wants kids because they think the end is neigh. Nobody is dating or making friends because everyone huddles inside virtual spaces staring at screens telling them āsomething big is about to happen.ā
Either the ābig thingā isnāt going to happen, or itās already happened and we expected it to be more dramatic with credits rolling after. Either way, it goes on. We each have to stay involved, we each have responsibility we didnāt ask for, weāre each part of a social contract that despite slowly withering, we are still connected to.
I think you misunderstand. Iām not American. āTimeās upā means that Iām done waiting and hoping that America will get its shit together, itās time to treat America as an adversary rather than an ally and move on. The pattern has been clear for a long time, this isnāt new. Itās just reached a point where it can no longer be papered over and ignored.
The ābig thingā youāre hoping for - a sudden dramatic move to national sanity by the Americans - isnāt going to happen without generational change and a fundamental shift in world power dynamics happening first.