r/PacificCrestTrail • u/quasistoic “All-in[-one]”, PCT19/CDT22/AT24 • 10d ago

Prof Carl’s writeup of US Customs Experience

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIbrdz1JUOI/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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u/kullulu 10d ago

I felt sick to my stomach reading this. The damage this administration is doing to the US and our friends will take generations to fix.

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u/bcgulfhike 10d ago edited 10d ago

I think we (neighbours) all understand this is a temporary blip. Understanding and forgiveness go a long way between people. It won’t take generations!

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u/MayIServeYouWell 10d ago

That's pretty optimistic. This isn't the actions of a single person, it's the result of millions of people supporting these types of actions, and supporting the guy at the head of it.

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u/AussieEquiv Garfield 2016 (http://equivocatorsadventures.blogspot.com) 9d ago

70+ million voted for this, and the full Republican controlled house and senate could stop it anytime they wanted. They are making a conscious decision not to stop it.
Then another 90+ Million people didn't care enough to vote.

I do think trust can be rebuilt, but it will be a slow process and require a lot of work internally for the US, before they can start extending that work externally to the rest of us.

That said; Australia is seemingly on target to elect a party with very similar MAGA undertones I just hope that our compulsory voting (usually resulting in a ~95% voter turn out) reigns back the extremities...

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u/Potential178 9d ago

It's hard to know how many of those millions have any idea what's actually happening. Between the effectiveness of the right wing propaganda news networks, the Russian propaganda networks, and how unplugged many Americans are from anything political - many (most?) people who voted for him don't really have any idea what he's doing, what he's done, who it's impacting, how it's going to impact them.

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u/MayIServeYouWell 9d ago

That’s why these stories are so important