This is a guest post from an American friend for Independence Day 2025.
I’ve never been more disgusted and horrified by my country than I am today. Everything I was taught about what we stand for has been silenced or destroyed. We are actively harming people who come for a better life and making billionaires richer off the backs of the poor and the middle class. We are removing life sustaining care from people who desperately need it.
Cruelty and hatred are running the country. Fueled by stupidity and ignorance.
Nobody is coming to save America. The rest of the world sits baffled by how we could let this happen. They’re not coming.
The American Dream is dead.
It makes it worse to think what Independence Day represents. What brave people sacrificed in all kinds of ways so we could end up here.
If he’s gone, we still have the gigantic wave of hatred that elected him.
I cannot celebrate.
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The study of history is a very important subject; by and large, history is cyclical if you elect right-wing dictators or would-be dictators, you get all the rest of the package: a scapegoated minority to be lambasted and blamed for the shortcomings of a society built on greed, lies and inequality.