My fellow Americans, how did you guys go from “for the people, to the people, by the people” about 250 years ago

To being the only country in the world which dropped a nuclear weapon on civilians and currently being the number one supporter of the most well-documented genocide in the history of human kind?

Where did y’all lose the plot? 🤔

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HiFiRaver · 18-21, M

I think becoming such a wealthy, powerful, influential nation gave us a sense of impunity and shamelessness. So we feel like we can do no wrong and that we’re always on the “right side of history”. Being on the winning side of WWII and the Cold War bolstered that. But that’s just arrogance. It’s made us blind to our failures and injustices. When the whole rest of the world is saying there’s a genocide in Gaza, our response is “then the whole rest of the world is wrong!” but what’s more likely to be true?

IamBack · 31-35, M

@HiFiRaver another sensible answer 👍🏻 thank you!