Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Absolutely please do stop doing business with the US.
That being said, making generalizations about the entire population of a country is generally a crappy thing to do (same with any other demographic that isn't just self identification with an ideology defined by hate or cruelty)
America is made of many people, plenty of whom are morons, plenty of whom are not. We unfortunately we have a wildly dysfunctional system of government that morons have gamed to consistently concentrate power in the hands of stupidest and most self destructive.
If morons can game better than smart people, what does it say about the smart people?
A two party system has meant there isn't really a party of smart people. Just a party of dumb people and slightly less dumb people.
The Democratic party isn't actively self destructive, but the right wing being as self destructive as it is is absolutely a reflection of the dysfunction of the Democratic party to serve the interests of its people and engage with the countries problems in good faith.
You get to choose between complacent short-sighted people who allowed us to get to our current point, or people who are actively trying to destroy everything about the country that actually serves its people. Thats why the left in the US regularly has heated conversations about whether it's better to vote for the lesser of two evils, or not vote at all in expression of your dissatisfaction with the one party who really needs your vote as a "left" party.
That the smart people were busy doing something more important, like science? Why would you expect smart people to participate in such a stupid game?
To avoid having what's happened happen.
Not better, just more effectively, because they aren't considering the long term implications of their actions.
IDK, we're pretty stupid on average.