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I kinda feel like…I’m mourning for the USA? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m German. The US made it possible for me to grow up in a functional democracy.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died so I could have that privilege.
Fortunately, my grandparents weren’t involved in killing them, but that was pure chance.
Growing up, the USA was the shining beacon in the west.
The country that was so much better, freer and cooler than mine.
I listened to American Forces Network, the radio station of the armed forces in Germany, every night.
Literally my main goal in life was to be able to one day move to the US and become a citizen.
I lived in the US for one year pre-9/11 and could hardly wait to finish my studies and maybe one day acquire a Green Card.
But after 2001 (damn, that’s already 24 years ago), it started to turn.
I celebrated when the German chancellor refused to support the US in the invasion of Iraq.
Then I stayed up every night, watching the live footage from the reporters embedded with the invasion forces.
It was awesome. It was awful.
Nowadays it’s just the latter.
Trump v1 was a fluke, Trump v2 put the US on the same level as Russia for me.
(I know enough Russians to know the situation is comparable. Russians aren’t one single bit more evil or more complacent than US Americans in 2025. And neither are Chinese.)

tl/dr: Trump’s second term has absolutely obliterated my belief in the US.
Sorry for the rant, I’m a bit drunk and frustrated with…vaguely gestures at everything.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it helps, most of us hate what's going on. Even a lot of republican voters have woken up and realized what's going on. Sadly, however, it's too late.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks. I know. But it doesn't really help until something concrete actually develops from that hate.

Fun fact: At its absolute height, 10% of Germans were members of the nazi party NSDAP.
That was enough to correctly label the entire country as Nazi Germany.

In 2025, 45% of Americans support the Republican Party. Draw your conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

While I don't disagree with the essence of what you're saying, those numbers are a bit misleading. There's only about 38.8 registered Republicans in the US which comes to about 11.1% of the US population.

Even if you take the 2024 election results, only about 22.6% of the population voted Republican

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There’s only about 11.1% registered Republicans

Which is more than 10% at the height of Nazi Germany, when party membership was required for many career paths

22.6% of the population voted Republican

In the last elections in Germany 1933, 26.4% of the population voted for the Nazi party.
And that was with armed SA thugs at the entrances to the voting booths.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Like I said, I still agree with the comparison and even more now that I see both numbers. But the initial numbers you used were not as related as the comment made them seem