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Or maybe you're not paying close enough attention.

A few tiny examples: Texas, a state larger than the UK, just became a state where any resident can sue anyone else that helps someone access an abortion after about 6 weeks of pregnancy (before a lot of people know they are pregnant) regardless of rape or incest and win up to $10,000 for doing so.

States all over the country are busy banning voting on a Sunday because after church is when a lot of black people vote.

The looser of the last election, is still claiming to have won it, and millions of people genuinely believe him.

No different to the UK? Maybe try Bolsanaro's Brazil but with a larger GDP

Edit: that Brazil comparison is hyperbole, I don't know enough about Brazil to say that anyway



If you think what you read online or see in the media isn't filtered to get the exact response you're demonstrating now, you're being fooled.

I'd invite you to turn off the computer, put down your phone and go out and enjoy life.


I don't really know what you mean, those are just facts, among many that exist whether I read about them or not. And American politics is fascinating to me, so I enjoy it.

American democracy is not out of the woods just because Bidden won, he has a healthy popular vote majority, but wafer thin control of the Senate. The two Democrat senators currently blocking reforms are from Republican leaning states so they're motivations are not typical for straight Democrats. Things very much hang in the balance at the moment. Republicans are busy gerrymandering their districts, so we could soon be back to Republican control of the House despite solid popular vote majorities for Democrats, at which point we can probably kiss goodbye to the US leading the world against climate change regardless of who's president.

Can I assume, that you don't know any of this because you enjoy "turning off your computer"? Then why comment about something you deliberately avoid learning about?


Your “facts” are actually carefully shaped narratives that come out of the shouting on social media and are based on a typically shallow understanding of the key issues and more based on sound bites than a carefully thought out belief structure.

The US seems like it’s unstable because that’s what gets clicks.

You can go back to any decade in the past 200 years and find outrageous “the sky is falling narratives”. Now is no different.




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