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[00:00:03] America celebrated its 250th anniversary, but millions
[00:00:06] of Americans see no reason to rejoice, writes The Hill. Congress
[00:00:09] is hated, the Supreme Court is not trusted, presidents are not favored.
[00:00:13] Americans are no longer proud of their country, with totally low
[00:00:17] ratings everywhere. Why is society losing faith in America and where is the roof
[00:00:20] of the home of the brave leaking? We'll provide only the facts, you
[00:00:24] make
[00:00:25] your own conclusions.
[00:01:17] This summer, several eloquent surveys were published in the US, all of which
[00:01:21] show record levels of pessimism among the
[00:01:23] population. The country, which for decades was called
[00:01:27] an example of stable democracy, today does not trust
[00:01:30] itself, and this, of course, is not a bolt from the blue,
[00:01:33] but a very specific diagnosis.
[00:01:46] In the US itself, the situation is called Hollywood-style: a crisis
[00:01:49] of democracy. Firstly, Americans no longer believe in what seemed sacred, in
[00:01:53] the American dream, and do not feel proud of their
[00:01:57] nation. In late June, the institute published
[00:02:00] the results of a survey that showed only 33% of US
[00:02:04] residents feel extreme pride in their belonging to
[00:02:07] the American nation. According to sociologists, this is the lowest
[00:02:11] indicator in 25 years of such observations. Shortly before
[00:02:14] that, the Reuters agency conducted similar research and reported, based on
[00:02:18] its results, that 70% of US residents
[00:02:21] no longer consider their country the greatest on Earth.
[00:02:24] 64% of respondents are convinced that American democracy
[00:02:28] is in danger. 30. 8% do not believe that
[00:02:31] the states will exist for another 250 years as a unified
[00:02:34] state. In September of last year,
[00:02:37] the Wall Street Journal shocked with the news that 70% of the state's population
[00:02:41] considers the American dream an outdated narrative, and do not
[00:02:44] believe that hard work can lead to its fulfillment.
[00:02:48] It seems no one has ever treated the main American core value
[00:02:51] like this. Moreover, instead of dreaming, young people are increasingly fantasizing
[00:02:54] about emigration. Youth pessimism is associated with
[00:02:58] the fact that gerontocracy has taken root in US power, which does not want
[00:03:01] to change anything and wishes to perpetually maintain the current
[00:03:04] status quo. In this sense, the current US has a certain
[00:03:08] similarity to the late USSR before its collapse. In the declining Soviet Union, there was an epidemic
[00:03:11] of alcoholism. In the states now,
[00:03:14] there is an epidemic of drug addiction, from which more than 100,000
[00:03:18] Americans die annually. As in the late USSR, the elites
[00:03:21] are fixated on foreign policy to the detriment of internal problems.
[00:03:25] The US, of course, does not fully copy the Soviet Union, but all these
[00:03:28] factors will in the long term negatively affect
[00:03:32] the development of this country. Secondly, Americans are seriously
[00:03:35] disappointed with the entire power structure. Alarming figures for
[00:03:38] overseas sentiment were heard last year. At that time, the level of American
[00:03:42] trust in the government became the worst in 50
[00:03:45] years. The situation has changed especially dramatically over the
[00:03:48] last 20 years. The corresponding study
[00:03:51] was conducted by Gallup from September 2nd to 16th.
[00:03:55] Analysts compared the level of American trust in government in
[00:03:59] 1970s and 2020s. Only
[00:04:02] 38% of survey participants trust the federal
[00:04:06] government on domestic policy issues. 32%
[00:04:09] of respondents trust legislators. Also, Americans
[00:04:13] have started to trust politicians less. Since the 1970s,
[00:04:16] the indicator has decreased by 23%. There is more
[00:04:19] skepticism among the population towards news
[00:04:22] media. Over half a century, the average level of trust has fallen by
[00:04:25] 36%. Similar surveys that measure
[00:04:28] Americans' attitudes towards key institutions have been conducted by the Gallup Institute
[00:04:32] since 2006. During the first
[00:04:35] study, the US shared first place with Great Britain in
[00:04:39] the G7 ranking. In 2023,
[00:04:43] Americans' attitudes changed so much that their country
[00:04:46] took last place - writes The
[00:04:49] Economist.
[00:04:54] Fresh data from this year shows that Americans' spirits have not
[00:04:58] improved.
[00:05:12] The country's legal system served as a kind of soft wall, holding back
[00:05:16] collective delusions. However, those times are long gone.
[00:05:19] Today, congressional approval ratings have fallen below
[00:05:22] rock bottom, and in terms of respect, lawmakers have become comparable to
[00:05:26] lice and used car salespeople. Laws are no longer
[00:05:29] developed to help citizens, they are written by donors for
[00:05:33] donors, wrapped in legal formulations so
[00:05:36] tightly that they work like malicious software code,
[00:05:39] created specifically to hide from the public
[00:06:14] those who came there not to represent
[00:06:18] the interests of their district, their state, their
[00:06:21] voters, but to engage in such quasi-
[00:06:24] political, essentially circus activities. The institution
[00:06:28] of the presidency is also not spoiled by public affection; the trust indicator is only
[00:06:32] 27%, which is even lower than Trump's ratings, which fluctuate within
[00:06:35] 30-40%.
[00:06:38] It is noteworthy that the most modest figures are for institutions that pass laws.
[00:06:45] All American media are currently criticizing President Donald
[00:06:48] Trump as almost the main betrayer of national interests,
[00:06:51] writing that the war with Iran was started incorrectly, not as it should have been,
[00:06:55] and how can one be proud of their country when their own people speak of it
[00:06:59] exclusively in negative tones? In fact, there are no special
[00:07:02] reasons for pride for American citizens now, or they are
[00:07:06] critically few. There are several
[00:07:09] reasons for such a fall of the house of democracy. Americans
[00:07:14] were promised for years to solve the problems of healthcare, migration,
[00:07:17] national debt, and crime, but Washington repeatedly
[00:07:21] proved unable to make sustainable decisions.
[00:07:24] The second is the split of society into two incompatible worldviews.
[00:07:28] For one America, the main threat is authoritarianism
[00:07:31] and the restriction of rights; for the other, open borders,
[00:07:35] crime, and rising prices. The political
[00:07:38] leadership also does not inspire much hope. Over the years, the White House has increasingly
[00:07:42] resembled less a center of the free world and more an old people's home
[00:07:46] whose inhabitants have started a high-stakes
[00:07:49] gambling game. We saw how President Joe Biden, throughout his
[00:07:53] presidency, wandered around with the lost look of a person who forgot
[00:07:56] why he went to the kitchen. He exuded about as much authority
[00:08:00] as a melting ice cream cone. Then came
[00:08:03] the second season of President Trump, which many did not even
[00:08:06] ask for. He turned the Oval Office into a family business and
[00:08:10] began to govern the country with tweets. Trump
[00:08:13] promised to keep America out of new wars, but then he himself approved
[00:08:17] military actions against Iran, dragging the country into another
[00:08:20] costly Middle Eastern conflict. Viewers are beginning to realize
[00:08:24] that the pilots are fighting for the control stick more than they are flying
[00:08:27] the plane.
[00:08:32] Americans' trust in the media is also undermined and at an historical
[00:08:36] low. Objectivity is gone, only propaganda remains,
[00:08:39] they exclaim across the ocean. And even the owner of The Washing-
[00:08:43] Post, Jeff Bezos, admitted that the American media had sunk below
[00:08:47] rock bottom. The main reason for the loss of reputation of the American media is
[00:08:50] that they have become an instrument of political
[00:08:53] agenda. Many large news companies admit that
[00:08:57] they cover events in favor of certain political parties and
[00:09:00] leaders. Such publications as CNN, The New York Times, and the same Washington
[00:09:04] Post are considered platforms for the Democratic Party. It is almost
[00:09:08] impossible to find positive information about Trump in them, unlike
[00:09:11] Fox News, which adheres to so- called conservative
[00:09:15] views. In conditions of information warfare, the sides
[00:09:18] use the dirtiest methods against each other. Seeing all this
[00:09:21] bacchanalia, the average American has practically stopped trusting
[00:09:25] traditional mainstream media. Only
[00:09:28] 14% trust television. The media has turned into partisan
[00:09:32] camps. Democratic voters watch some channels, Republicans
[00:09:35] watch others. And the same event receives two
[00:09:38] opposing interpretations. And while Fox News reports how
[00:09:42] Trump heroically defeats Iran, the hosts of popular evening shows in the US
[00:09:46] make him, excuse me,
[00:09:48] an idiot.
[00:09:51] Only a miracle will save Trump, no one trusts him, his numbers
[00:09:55] are going to hell. Let's help him, he wants to save
[00:09:58] Spirit Airlines by spending half a billion dollars on the company,
[00:10:02] but it, like Trump, cannot be saved. Let's spend the money
[00:10:06] just to get rid of him. I flew Spirit Airlines, I
[00:10:10] lived during Trump's term, neither can be saved.
[00:10:13] One-sided coverage, bias, publication of fakes and unverified
[00:10:17] data, the audience is tired of lies and
[00:10:19] manipulation. Now the press in America is about
[00:10:23] supporting lies, that's all. It's all about money, you can't fix
[00:10:27] CNN, you can't fix Fox News or NBC, CBS, and so
[00:10:30] on. CNN today has completely lost the trust of the American people.
[00:10:34] We once had the best journalists. My friend, Seymour
[00:10:38] Hersh, is famous throughout the world as an investigative journalist.
[00:10:41] Today all mainstream media reject him, they don't want the truth,
[00:10:45] that is, corporate interests have seized the mass
[00:10:48] media. Now, I think, a unique dynamic has formed.
[00:10:51] Over the past five years, they have said so much.
[00:11:25] people no longer trust them anyway, maybe they should stick to the truth sometimes,
[00:11:29] but they seem completely uninterested in that,
[00:11:32] possibly because propaganda always
[00:11:34] worked, and helped guide people in
[00:11:38] the right
[00:11:39] direction.
[00:11:43] The split in America runs not only through party headquarters and television
[00:11:47] channels, it runs through families, cities and entire states, due to
[00:11:50] illegal
[00:11:52] migrants.
[00:11:57] For Republicans, the southern border has become a symbol of the state losing
[00:12:00] control. For Democrats, tough deportation policies are a threat to human
[00:12:04] rights. Another split in the nation is abortion:
[00:12:08] the political system of the US has created
[00:12:12] an absolutely unstable, explosive construction,
[00:12:15] where indeed the split goes not only by
[00:12:19] states, but it goes not only by
[00:12:21] political parties, it goes by families,
[00:12:25] by brothers, by citizens of the same city,
[00:12:29] and if this is not stopped, and if politicians do not
[00:12:33] realize that the exploitation of such dangerous
[00:12:36] social tools will lead to a global
[00:12:40] catastrophe, and it will be a truly bloody massacre, as they like to
[00:12:44] show in Hollywood movies, then
[00:12:47] I have the worst news for them, it will all
[00:12:50] end exactly as
[00:12:54] they depict.
[00:12:57] economy: prices are rising, fuel is becoming more expensive due to the war with Iran, and this is against
[00:13:00] the backdrop of rumors of pure chaos in the White House.
[00:13:04] The war not only engulfs Trump's presidency, but also affects
[00:13:07] the president himself. During a recent meeting in the Oval Office,
[00:13:11] he launched into a tirade against Iranian leaders, calling them
[00:13:14] scoundrels and lunatics in an obscene rant. Growing
[00:13:17] concern about his physical health and mental
[00:13:21] stability. Donald's condition is visibly deteriorating.
[00:13:25] A close confidant, who regularly sees him, told me this week in Washington
[00:13:28] that his physical and mental health
[00:13:32] is deteriorating, those around him do not know what to do about it, the situation
[00:13:35] can only worsen, he is 80 years old, and it shows,
[00:13:39] but it's not just about age or declining cognitive abilities
[00:13:42] that can affect those who enter their ninth decade.
[00:13:46] Trump lashes out at everyone, expressing
[00:13:49] frustration at the lack of any decent options that
[00:13:52] currently face him. Agree, not the best characteristic for
[00:13:56] a person with a finger on the nuclear button. It seems that Trump,
[00:14:00] who tried to bend the changeable world, has nevertheless bent
[00:14:03] himself. 70% of Americans consider
[00:14:07] the campaign against Iran mistaken. Also, according to
[00:14:10] Pew Research data, two out of three Americans personally blame
[00:14:13] Donald Trump for the deplorable state of the economy. And only a third
[00:14:17] of state residents are ready to support the line of the US
[00:14:20] president and his Republican party in the congressional elections
[00:14:24] in autumn. Unable to unite
[00:14:27] the disparate 50 states, Trump pulled out of history's attic
[00:14:31] the main bogeyman of the 20th century, communism. White House political strategists
[00:14:34] are trying to frighten the electorate with the coming of socialists to power if
[00:14:38] Democrats gain control of Congress in November. The attack on
[00:14:42] Iran, all this mess that Americans
[00:14:45] stirred up in the Persian Gulf, in
[00:14:48] Iran, is a consequence not only of Trump's actions, it is a consequence not
[00:14:51] only of his cabinet, it is
[00:14:55] to the same extent a consequence of this polarization,
[00:14:59] yes, in American society,
[00:15:02] now seeing that this
[00:15:05] invasion, this aggression, it did not become such a blitzkrieg,
[00:15:09] that it does not
[00:15:12] hit Iran as hard as initially desired,
[00:15:15] many, of course, change their
[00:15:17] minds.
[00:15:22] But the worst will happen if, as a result of the congressional elections...
[00:15:27] Trump gently hinted at this repeatedly and even tried
[00:15:30] to cancel the elections, but it didn't work out. In
[00:15:34] the Trump administration, the sense of risk is increasing. A favorable
[00:15:38] outcome of the vote, which prompts preparations for worse scenarios,
[00:15:42] including the activation of investigations and subpoenas
[00:15:44] for hearings if Democrats take control of Congress,
[00:15:48] the publication states. White House lawyers hold closed
[00:15:51] briefings for political appointees, explaining the procedure
[00:15:55] for congressional oversight and recommendations for interacting with
[00:15:58] legislators. During meetings, which, according to insiders, last about
[00:16:02] 30 minutes, employees are explained how to properly respond
[00:16:06] to congressional requests and what precautions to observe when
[00:16:09] corresponding. It turns out paranoia is not only because
[00:16:13] of communism, and such tectonic shifts in the upper echelons affected the common
[00:16:16] people: they stopped trusting the authorities, stopped being proud of the country, stopped
[00:16:20] watching television, and these indicators are much more painful for the US
[00:16:24] than a national debt of 40 trillion dollars, which, by the way, grows by approximately
[00:16:27] 25 billion dollars per day. In this state,
[00:16:31] the US met its 250th anniversary.
[00:16:34] The crisis of institutions will manifest itself in all its glory during the upcoming
[00:16:38] elections. The losing side will obviously not recognize their
[00:16:41] legitimacy. Republicans will blame Democrats for postal
[00:16:45] fraud and collusion with foreign lobbyists who do not
[00:16:48] like Trump's policies. So in 2027, we expect
[00:16:52] a further deepening of the American divide.
[00:16:55] The self-proclaimed greatest country in the world is extremely polarized, this is
[00:16:58] the most disturbing trend in American reality. Democrats support
[00:17:02] some, Republicans others. Individual states generally live their own lives and sometimes do not
[00:17:06] listen to the White House. The nation is divided, internal contradictions
[00:17:09] are only increasing, political scientists increasingly ask
[00:17:13] themselves: will the state collapse? Trump
[00:17:16] is taking a number of radical measures on issues that concern
[00:17:20] citizens: migration, the economy, electoral legislation, and
[00:17:23] a number of states are resisting this: the legal
[00:17:26] systems of individual states are entering a tight clinch with
[00:17:30] Trump's federal initiatives, at a certain point Trump introduces federal
[00:17:34] law enforcement agencies into these states, such as the National Guard, this is...
[00:17:37] indeed one of the preconditions for the collapse of the state, but without
[00:17:40] any radical changes this process will continue for another
[00:17:44] 20-30 years. The level of mutual hatred
[00:17:47] is off the charts. 77% of survey
[00:17:50] participants are confident that in the next 5 years political violence in
[00:17:53] the country will become the norm. American hegemony has expired against the backdrop of
[00:17:57] internal strife that can no longer
[00:18:00] be ignored. The political system of the states is compared to a jammed
[00:18:04] mechanism, where each part tries to crush its neighbor.
[00:18:08] Forgetting during the eternal political rally about
[00:18:11] ordinary people, the tragedy is that the overwhelming
[00:18:14] majority of Americans are still, to everyone's surprise, decent people
[00:18:18] who just want to pay their bills, have a beer, and be left
[00:18:22] alone, but they are stuck in a frozen virtual reality,
[00:18:25] created to unleash their worst impulses. America
[00:18:29] suffers not so much from a lack of worthy citizens, as from
[00:18:32] a structural failure of the institutions designed to
[00:18:35] serve them.
[00:18:41] By blaming them for a lack of patriotism, we miss
[00:18:44] the point. In reality, it is merely the deadly fatigue
[00:18:47] of an impoverished, broken population, tired of
[00:18:51] hearing that the patient is healthy, when they see with their own eyes on
[00:18:54] the screen how a heartbeat turns into a straight line,
[00:18:58] foreshadowing imminent demise. A very specific
[00:19:01] summary of public sentiment, as it were, from within.
[00:19:04] It is quite symptomatic that the upcoming electoral race for seats in Congress
[00:19:08] is becoming the most expensive in history, with both parties planning to spend
[00:19:11] immediately 12 billion dollars on advertising alone,
[00:19:15] apparently, the trust of the population will have to
[00:19:18] be bought.
[00:19:23] The US still possesses the strongest army, the most powerful economy, and
[00:19:26] incredible technical potential, but all of this will melt away like
[00:19:29] tears in the rain if a big explosion occurs internally, which is possible not in theory, but already in
[00:19:33] the upcoming November elections.
[00:19:36] Such a low approval rating for the government is not even statistics, but
[00:19:39] a warning, a political winter for
[00:19:42] the states may be very close. Goodbye.
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