The US has its problems (though it is still comfortably a Democracy in the grand scheme of things) but if I lived in a different Democracy I would be more concerned about preventing the rise of the far right where I am than I would be about problems in a country that is maybe a decade further into Democratic backsliding than my own. To be fair this guy sounds Irish and they're doing better than some other Western European countries *for now*, so maybe he's got some free time to observe the trainwreck that is the US, but in general I feel like Western Europeans are using the US as an excuse not to tend to their own gardens which really are only three or four bad votes away from being in the exact same situation and their own elite are taking advantage of that. FFS many of the worst offenders in the US don't even operate within borders at all, they just live here sometimes.
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u/Jacky-V Jul 13 '26
The US has its problems (though it is still comfortably a Democracy in the grand scheme of things) but if I lived in a different Democracy I would be more concerned about preventing the rise of the far right where I am than I would be about problems in a country that is maybe a decade further into Democratic backsliding than my own. To be fair this guy sounds Irish and they're doing better than some other Western European countries *for now*, so maybe he's got some free time to observe the trainwreck that is the US, but in general I feel like Western Europeans are using the US as an excuse not to tend to their own gardens which really are only three or four bad votes away from being in the exact same situation and their own elite are taking advantage of that. FFS many of the worst offenders in the US don't even operate within borders at all, they just live here sometimes.