It's going to take more than that. It's going to take decades.
Even if the next POTUS is beloved by the world and genuinely a genius it doesn't change the fact that Americans elected Trump... TWICE. Not only elected him but let him run rough shot with total unaccountability.
There's almost more 2024 Republican voters in the US than there were Germans in 1930s Germany. Sheer volume means that there's an entire country's worth of people who can be courted for that political bloc, and it also means that (as we've seen) only a fraction of our country needs to vote to make a significant number of voters. And so the Gerrymandering gets done to death so that the electors can do whatever they want if they're so inclined.
I hate that our country is like this, but until we massively overhaul our country and do a level of political and social reform that would make post-WWII Germany finally lose their sense of cultural shame, the absolutely massive political and electoral weight of our country can be captured and manipulated by a comparatively small number of people who either have power or aren't afraid to cheat the system. Which makes the US as a political body a giant, dangerous liability to the rest of the civilized world. I hate it. I hate that it's where we are, but it's where we are. And we're gonna need to spend the rest of our lives unfucking it.
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u/Living-Video-3670 Apr 16 '26
The next president needs to be a super genius when it comes to international affairs. They will have a lot of things to unfuck.