I don’t understand how it isn’t more obvious to everyone that the American people at large literally did not elect him, the election was stolen, Trump and Elon Musk both were on national television bragging about how they’ve done so, multiple times.

Do not ever trust the US government for anything, ever - you’re completely correct there - but please don’t get the impression that the majority of citizens are over here cheering and rubbing their hands together in sick, evil glee. We are hostages of the owner class. What is happening, happens without our consent or approval, and those who express their disapproval are shot dead.

There is a small percentage of very uneducated and unwell people who do support the actions of the American regime and they’re being hugely signal boosted by said regime as a way of whitewashing what is going on. If they can get one person to express approval and then put that sound bite onto Fox News, then suddenly you can have a thousand people express approval. Once you have a thousand people on board the misinformation is now self supporting, it’ll spread on its own.

A small subset of Americans are cartoonishly evil, and surprise, it’s primarily the robber barons just like the last time. A larger subset of Americans are criminally underinformed about their situation, either through their own lack of interest or through targeted efforts to destroy their ability to learn the truth (defunding of educational programs, defunding NPR, burning books, etc). The largest subset of Americans are just scared. Everything that has defined the backbone of domestic life in the USA in our lifetimes has been destroyed and it is not coming back. People who speak up about this publicly are disappeared or executed. Some of them, you hear about on the news after. Most, you won’t.

I have such an unbelievable amount of respect for citizens in other countries who are willing and able to stand up for their rights. I always thought the US would be capable of the same. And in some ways, we are. In most of the ways that matter, though, we’re scared little children, whose fear and ignorance is being amplified and preyed on by those who would take advantage of it, and the average person is either blind to it or afraid of the consequences of standing up to it alone.

Please, hate what we’ve done, hate who leads us, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that regular citizens are approving of this.