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Showing Original Post only (View all)American Brit moved back to London. "Trump is a logical result of your culture." [View all]
Mari
London|Dec. 22
I am an American, since 2011. I am also European. Moving to America in 2001, I read the history of the country I had now adopted - the Revolution, Civil War, Sixties Revolution, Caro's magisterial books on Robert Moses and LBJ. Living close to Concord, MA, I had plenty of local sources of US history and culture. However, I found the country in which I now lived to be a cold, occasionally vicious place; everything was for sale - including health care, which I had regarded as a basic human right in my European home. Employment law was totally skewed in favour of the Employer. No statutory Maternity Leave or even statutory vacation days! I quickly formed an impression of a people working and working harder just to keep up - getting deeper and deeper into debt to keep up their lifestyles and naively swallowing every marketing message that came their way - totally in thrall to Capital which just want to sell them more and more useless stuff and lend them more and more money to buy it. I moved back to Europe, having first become an American citizen (dual) and was appalled from a distance when Trump was elected - but not surprised. The US is a nation that has been selling itself to itself for a long time and has a 'weakest loses' culture - everyone is competing with everyone else in a dog-eat-dog society. There is no room left for civilised (with an 's'!) society. So this American, with a perspective formed outside it, can tell you that Trump is a logical result of your culture.
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American Brit moved back to London. "Trump is a logical result of your culture." [View all]
jodymarie aimee
Dec 2017
OP
i can explain it. trump is the logical result of ignoring right wing talk radio for 30 yrs
certainot
Dec 2017
#142
We allow vicious lies in the name of "Freedom of the Press" and we allow our (former) politicians/
Dustlawyer
Dec 2017
#146
a lot on left fall for that rw talking point about freedom of speech bullshit applied to a classic
certainot
Dec 2017
#157
It is about values. What value do we put on a human life that does not have an
Doodley
Dec 2017
#155
And when you look at TPTB Trump crowd, it extends far beyond Trump. There are many basically
RKP5637
Dec 2017
#6
My response: A lot of us know this, and are similarly embarrassed, ashamed, and dismayed.
Aristus
Dec 2017
#8
Foreign intervention wouldn't have worked if the soil had not already been fertile.
The_jackalope
Dec 2017
#24
Sorry for your disability . I feel the same way. I'm retired and trying to live on less than 800.00
geretogo
Dec 2017
#35
This reminds me of X-Files episode last year "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"
underpants
Dec 2017
#29
Lol.. That's unfortunate since we can throw DJT out, but the Royals are forever
whathehell
Dec 2017
#41
Are OP jodymarie aimee and Mari the same person? Why the third-person subject line?
VOX
Dec 2017
#86
Ironically, it's usually Americans who have never been outside of this country.
smirkymonkey
Dec 2017
#133
That's an ignorant statement, imo. Visit any American city, and they'll be full of culture!
Oneironaut
Dec 2017
#156
I'm wondering where are country has gone, and where it's going. You are so right.
YOHABLO
Dec 2017
#132
This American disease arises periodically, but this particular strain of it started ...
Persondem
Dec 2017
#149
I was born here and if I had the money would blow out of Dodge in a heartbeat, all is lost even if
FreeStateDemocrat
Dec 2017
#177