This is not a troll question, obviously there are many worse countries in the world, but I’m genuinely curious what are your feelings on your country based on the extremes currently being experienced there (not just political but in many other aspects aswelll)
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Center left person here.
It fucking sucks. Literally watching brain rot and the denial of reality in real time.
Gonna be a fun 2 years until midterms, if those even happen.
If I could afford it I’d leave
Everyone with an IQ above room temperature is pissed off and afraid for their lives. We did not vote for this, we did not want this. Many of us are wondering when someone will grow the balls to actually stop the treasonous cheeto. So far everyone in the position to do so has rolled over for him for cash or the promise of more power.
This is only happening because his uneducated cult hates people who different than them more than they care about literally anything else.
I’m perpetually angry. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be leading the world in green energy and science and human rights.
We’re backsliding because Fox News and a million dickless podcast bros are convincing our dumbest people that they should vote against their own self-interest.
I’m European, but went to grad school in the US and have several friends there. None of them support the current government and are embarrassed by the situation. Most of them want to move away, and some are making the plans to do so. The average Trump supporter is not a good representation of the average American. A large number of his voters have turned against him, too.
Having 2 kids, one special needs, one a daughter, it’s terrifying. I hope they are someday welcomed to another country, as I don’t think we will recover from this any time soon
Quite frankly I am horrified!
I have always been slightly embarrassed to be an american because of the lack of care provided an intelligent society.
Under this current administration, I am deeply horrified.
I am ashamed that so many of my countrymen would believe a lying self-promoting narcissist.
The embracing of a fascist.
I cannot even begin to
Explain or condone their support.
I am a fan of history, and we, as a collective, choose not to learn from any history.
The avarice continues to condemn our species.
Embarrassed. But have been for a while now
I’m feeling 1938 Germany vibes.
The only people not livid and ready to riot are the ones steeped in misinformation.
I checked the fox news website yesterday and there was nothing about the stock market on it at all!!!
I’m tired boss
My vibe.
Fucking awesome, as usual.
Pretty shit, dude
It’s an embarrassing shit show over here.
I’m a trans person so I’m basically hoping countries start granting asylum. His order about “child abuse” might be enough depending on what results from it. (He is basically declaring allowing your kid to be lgbt, or being a lgbt parent child abuse)
I’m ashamed, embarrassed, angry and scared all the time. I feel like I’m crawling out of my skin. I’m scared for the future of my kid. I’m filled with hate and I’ve always worked very hard not to be that type of person.
Doom and gloom.
The food cards have already been slashed down in my family. We’re stocking up on cans, dry goods (rice/pasta), and meat for the freezer before prices skyrocket.
I have already moved back home to my European country. My parents and godparents are returning in 3 years. I feel awful for my little sister (divorced) who has 2 kids and can’t just abscond from the country until her children are old enough to choose a parent to live with. I feel fear for my best friend, who lives with her Hispanic gf who has tattoos.
Nobody is safe. I feel so much shame for how our nation has fallen. And so incredibly quickly. It’s literally Hitler round 2. The free speech we were known for is no more. The corruption is so blatant that we’re choking on it. What liberty? What justice for all? It’s nothing. Hope is lost.
You honestly expect an honest opinion on reddit?
Very very bad
Really scared. Every single day it’s breaking news, and always negative. I’m Latina, born and raised in the US, but I feel like I’m not welcome in my own country.
I’m very optimistic about its inevitable decline into chaos.
It’s a bit crazy. I did not vote in this past election. So I’m not as “chicken little” as the majority of Reddit. We’re gonna be fine, though. Anyone who spent any time on the Internet should recognize the insane rhetoric as very familiar.
It was said about every President beforehand. End of the country. We’ve lost allies, no respect, blah, blah, blah. When Obama was POTUS, I used to find republicans insufferable. Now the pendulum has moved back to Democrats being the biggest and loudest assholes.
Asking here you will never get a true, non heavily skewed answer.
Every fucking day most of us go “wtf is going on?!?!” too many times a day to count.
I will be protesting today.
Angry and anxious.
I’m angry and terrified.
Terrible. They promoted some terrible people into important positions. The state I live in has already crumbled. It’s terrible here.
As a Belgian myself, I also wonder this. I do follow popular YouTube channels such as MeidasTouch and some others, to see reactions of whats going on. But YT is hardly a real representation of the truth what people think. It mostly very very anti-Trump content, which I like tho. But is there a increase of anti-Trumpism on the rise? Bernie Sanders for instance is pushing it hard now. Some republicans are also starting to call out Doge, the ridiculous tarifs. In any case we live in strange and uncertain times.
I am horrified, disgusted, and angry. I’m going to a Hands Off protest today. Other than that, I feel powerless.
Like screaming wtf do something!
How have we not gotten violent yet?
Frogs in the frying pan and how many will die?
We’d invade ourselves at this point.
Fuck America rn. But not the general populace who didn’t support this. But the country and the leaders and those in Power? (Aside from Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Cory Booker, and that one amazing white woman always spitting facts whose name I can never remember). Fuck em.
we are NOT ok
Life remains the same for the vast majority of us.
Only part of the country is bitter and thinks the world will end or that we will somehow fall into a 1930s Germany state.
Personally, I feel fine. Life is normal. It’s not horrible as the media or Reddit make it seem. Literally nothing has changed for me or anyone around me, whether it be at work, in family/friend circles, etc.
Frustrated. Angry. Confused at how even his uneducated, rural morons are blindly following someone who is destroying our country and creating a world of enemies through his flat out economics incompetence. This piece of shit has declared bankruptcy 6 times. How the fuck do they think he’ll just magically be good this time with an entire country? He’s a fucking moron. And then there’s the republican politicians that have zero backbone, fuck them too. All cowards.
Terrified and embarrassed
I’m afraid, angry, and embarrassed. I didn’t vote for this and the Trump supporters I know are all “I didn’t think he’d do this” and I’m all “IT WAS LITERALLY POSTED ONLINE”
And yeah. This country used to stand for things and was heading in a good direction once upon a time. Now it just seems to stand for cruelty without consequences. It’s extremely hard. We are planning on leaving (my husband is working out his Spain citizenship, which would give me and our kids dual too). Just have to wait a bit.
Really really bad. Things are bleak and we are barely started
Disgusted, sad, embarrassed, terrified. That about covers it.
I’ve basically lost hope for the future.
I now live in a nightmare world in which evil has won, and brings misery and death on a near-daily basis. Greed is king. Empathy is sin. Ignorance is strength.
All the decent decisions I’ve made—not all of them great, mind, but enough them good—all the hard work and long hours I’ve put in, all the kindness and charity I’ve put out, none of that matters now.
I’m curious why specifically tattoos are a concern?
I’m just staying away from the news and putting my good energies into myself and my loved ones. It’s sort of out of my control so I’m staying grounded with focusing on what is important to me. Health, home and my circle.
Shitty, embarrassed, worried.
Teacher here. I’m honestly not feeling great about the direction of the country…especially when it comes to education. The attack on public schools has been going on for years, and now my state just fast-tracked a voucher program that essentially lets public money follow students to private schools. It’s like taking tax dollars meant for the community and handing them to private businesses.
Class sizes are exploding. There’s no accountability for student behavior, many parents don’t engage, and kids are checked out. I used to be able to just teach and go home, but now it feels like a war zone.
My district is even allowing Christian-based lessons now. I’m a Christian myself, but in a public school with Muslim, Hindu, and atheist students? That doesn’t sit right. We just elected far-right board members who push book bans based on false narratives about teachers pushing agendas. Most of that stuff is just not happening, but people believe it anyway.
Honestly, the division in this country is being fueled by both political sides and the media and it’s exhausting. I used to feel proud to be American. Now, I’m not so sure what we stand for anymore. I’m politically moderate, but it feels like the extremes are running the show, and we’re the ones paying the price.
Just a constant simmering anxiety
Basically in a constant state of fight or flight 🥺
Youre asking ultra left Reddit. Your answers will be “everything is falling apart” “where all gonna die”
The gamers just got slapped with reality now that Nintendo had to delay preorders due to the tariffs. Suffice to say, they’re not happy
Borderline suicidal? I’ve always been fascinated by interwar European history but I didn’t know it would come in handy again. So I figured this out quicker than almost anyone and this has just been torture for like ten years at this point.
It’s hard to be positive at all. Many of us have seen the writing on the wall for decades and here we are. It’s still shocking daily; the reckless, cruel, seemingly pointless things this admin is doing to everything that we hold dear. Education, science, medicine, civil rights, and civility in general. History repeating itself right before our eyes.
Then there is the betrayal and disgust. We knew what this admin said they wanted to do and they are doing it. But dealing with family, friends, coworkers who support this shit or watching some start to fall for it is the worst part. How can these people be respected or trusted ever again? The sheer stupidity and willful ignorance of people hurts most of all. The anger knowing that the idiots who voted for this evil scum have screwed us all. The fact that even if they realize it in their heart of hearts, many will never have the balls to take responsibility and admit they were wrong and continue to scapegoat everyone else.
It’s absolutely awful, depressing, and maddening. We only have so much we can do and the powers that be refuse to act. I hold on to hope that something will give sooner than later, but I’m skeptical.
We are watching the world’s most insecure, deranged, narcissistic man play out his petty revenge fantasies with seemingly no consequences. Destroying and forever changing the world for the worse to suit one shitty person. It’s embarrassing, engaging, dangerous, and beyond shameful.
Embarrassed, angry, sad, frustrated, in desperate need of chocolate and wine
Not good
I’ve been terrified of the direction we’ve been taking. I think it’s horrible how we are undoing all the progress of the last 50 years. Our treatment of our friends and Allie’s is unforgivable. Trump is an evil clown with no clue what he is doing. He’s governing by senility. I never thought we’d be here.
To be honest, I don’t feel safe or welcome anymore. Pretty much anywhere. He has changed the way I view my fellow Americans, that close to 50 percent still support him. Still. I don’t think our country will be the same again.
The damage he has dine will last decades.
I feel great. I dont really like the tariffs but, not the end of the world.
I feel like I’m going insane.
I live in a very blue state and the vast majority of people I know are concerned about the current situation, but why does NO ONE SEEM TO HAVE ANY URGENCY OR AGENCY?
It’s just “oh yeah, that’s bad. so anyway, work and beers” or whatever their regular life is.
And I’m not expecting much, honestly. I am so so so annoyed by the “why aren’t Americans like the French with protest” posts because the answer is that our ability to live is connected to our employment and none of us have any employment protections. I have two kids with chronic health conditions, I am not sacrificing my children’s health by striking for a bunch of morons who voted for this situation.
And that’s the situation like half of America is in.
I have an immense, like embarrassing amount, pride and love in my homeland…. But that’s not tied to the US. It’s regional, I’ll do anything for fellow New Englanders, but Oklahoma can get fucked. They’ve been dragging us down for centuries and I’m ready to cut them off.
And I get SO MAD when the stupid red pricks are like “lol people in cities would be fucked without us rural farmers.” YEAH GOOD LUCK LIVING OFF 500 ACRES OF SOYBEANS, FUCKFACE.” Without the city and trade programs in which you trade your soybeans for money, all you have is soybeans and yourself. At least people in cities have each other, not a perfect system, but there’s brains there.
I’m so sorry this just turned into a nonsensical rant. Thanks for the free therapy lol.
Terrified
“Genuinely curious, tHiS iS NoT a TrOLL qUeStIoN for real you guys”. Get the fuck out of here, this bad faith nonsense is posted literally every 45 minutes. Find something more constructive to do with your time
Shitty, I’m Native American.
Its similar to the UK tbf. We have elected a government who we thought were better than the last lot. I mean they are definitely better than the US lot but our bar is higher. I thought since beginning of blair and end of cameron we were on a good run of PMs and governments. But since Cameron left us with Brexit it has been very disappointing. These cant be the best of the best. I dont have any faith in any of the parties to be able to govern a country properly. There are such glaring issues in both countries and yet no one is fixing them. They were elected for change and its more of the same. BUT at least our lot understand basic economic theory.
Not great Bob
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Social Media replaced Critical Thinking idk
You are in the wrong place to get an answer to this question. You’re only gonna get those who are not onboard and having a bad time. There are millions upon millions on the other hand who fully believe that Trump is right in absolutely everything he says and does and think America is becoming great again as we speak.
I’m feeling pretty good honestly
Scared as hell. Republicans represent the senate and the house and the president, even though >50% of the country is not republican. We have an extreme representation issue and corporations and billionaires have more rights than the constituents that pay for these people to represent us. If we could, we’d move out. My heart breaks for America.
Waiting for the floor to fall out beneath us. Could what is going on turn things around? Maybe? But we’re playing with fire.
Not great, Chet.
I feel like I’m trapped in a burning building and half the people trapped with me voted for the matches.
I’m literally getting snail mail from friends who want to start and underground system to hide people in case some kind of Gestapo is formed. They already have plans.
I’m tarriffied
Fear, disbelief, dread… did I mention fear?
Land of the free and home of the brave.
Not good. Not good at all. We don’t value anything. Our allies. Public servants. Education. We will doom our children and sell out our mother for a dollar.
I’m feeling fine tbh and a lot of people I know are feeling the same. My area used to have like 30 Venezuelans at each gas station harassing you for money, now they’re all gone. Prices/Affordability is the same, and my company is going to have its best year ever. Life is good so far
It feels like the powers in charge right now want to make everything worse, and besides my concerns about the human rights abuses and the destruction of environmental, health, and safety protocols, as well as the ruination of growth and prosperity in this country and the betrayal of all international agreements and alliances, I am also worried that the while point of all this terrible shit is to rule people up so that Trump can declare an emergency and institute martial law. I’m in my early 50s; all I want is to live the rest of my life in peace with my family. I miss being optimistic about the future.
Just another day. It will change in a week. Same ol same ol tbh
Bad
I’m pretty pissed off, then I stop to think about how powerless I am and that pisses me off even more
this sucks
Confused, burned out, and wishing I could leave. But, the country I would leave to doesn’t want to accept people with mental issues. Not that I could afford to go there anyway.