Trump makes me freaking sick. The guy supports our enemies and people that mistreat their own people.
Sometime around 1966 liberal hero MLK Jr called the US Government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the World". Things have only gotten worse since then as the US operates in every crevice of the globe.
And as for mistreats own people, the US locks more people in prison than PRC or DPRK or Russia. US police harass blacks for a living. US weapons kill labor organizers in Columbia, partisans (or not) in Syria. Israel uses US weapons to mass-murder persons in the Gaza Strip without fear of retaliation. Saudi Arabia lynches homosexuals thanks to US support.
Power and evil go together. The US is civilized in that we respect a form of the Magna Carta idea, that the nobles have access to due process. We postmodern nobles here in the US number in the tens of millions. If you can buy a lawyer's labor, you might be able to buy justice.
But most of America is one or more of hungry, incarcerated, beaten on, has untreated PTSD from Iraq or Afghanistan, is in debt, treated to nothing but harassment from birth, stressed out so their employers can enjoy "labor flexibility".
We of the political class(the mostly White, mostly upper-income/wealth 15-30% of people that have bother voting repeatedly) pretend it isn't happening, and simply don't bother to learn what the US actually is doing Worldwide. Why do we need military presence in 135 countries? Why are we conducting airstrikes in half-a-dozen countries in the Middle East? For "defense"? You all buy this nonsense?
On the other hand, the US has done some good in the world. For example, tens of millions of people in Africa have access to cheap AIDS medications thanks to some US charities. A child born with HIV has only a 50% chance of making it to his second birthday. In some countries, up to 30% of pregnant women have HIV. Retrovirals can reduce the chances of mother to child HIV transmission by 75%.
